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[Shiperton Henethe]

Hi

It seems that the <FORM> tag throws a carriage return in MSIE (6),
but not in Netscape (7.1).

What is the best way to get HTML code to look the same in both
Netscape and MSIE?

Is it incorrect nesting to put the <FORM> tag between a <TABLE>and
a <TR> tag?

e.g. something like this:

<TABLE>

<FORM ...>

<TR>
<TD>
..
..
</TD>
</TR>

</FORM>
</TABLE>

With thanks


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

 

[SpaceGirl]

Hi

It seems that the <FORM> tag throws a carriage return in MSIE (6),
but not in Netscape (7.1).

What is the best way to get HTML code to look the same in both
Netscape and MSIE?

Is it incorrect nesting to put the <FORM> tag between a <TABLE>and
a <TR> tag?

e.g. something like this:

<TABLE>

<FORM ...>

<TR>
<TD>
.
.
</TD>
</TR>

</FORM>
</TABLE>

With thanks


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

<form style="margin-bottom:0px" ...>

That's the fix for IE. For some reason IE sticks a margin in at the
bottom of forms. Other browsers dont.

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[Philip Ronan]

Is it incorrect nesting to put the <FORM> tag between a <TABLE>and
a <TR> tag?

Yes

A <FORM> element can contain block level elements only. So put the table
inside the form like this

<FORM ... >
<TABLE ... >
...
</TABLE>
</FORM>

 

[Danny]

Hi

It seems that the <FORM> tag throws a carriage return in MSIE (6),
but not in Netscape (7.1).

What is the best way to get HTML code to look the same in both
Netscape and MSIE?

Put this in the head of the doc:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
form {margin: 0px;}
-->
</style>

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Put this in the head of the doc:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
form {margin: 0px;}
-->
</style>

Don't use the <!-- comment --> tags, and you don't need units if the
value is zero.

<style type="text/css">
form { margin: 0; }
</style>

 

[Danny]

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Don't use the <!-- comment --> tags, and you don't need units if the
value is zero.

<style type="text/css">
form { margin: 0; }
</style>

Thanks Beau,

I suppose that's better than my suggestion. Out of curiosity: why not
the comment tags?

 

[Neal]

Out of curiosity: why not the comment tags?

They were employed to hide the CSS from old browsers which are not used in
any appreciable number today. As such, since it was originally a
non-standard hack, it should be abandoned.

 

[Danny]

They were employed to hide the CSS from old browsers which are not used
in any appreciable number today. As such, since it was originally a
non-standard hack, it should be abandoned.

OK, so they're harmless but a sore to a coder's eye. Thanks.

 

[Barbara de Zoete]

OK, so they're harmless but a sore to a coder's eye. Thanks.

They are not really harmless. Yes, in html they seem harmless enough, but
once you have learned to use them as a bad habit, you will not understand
why your styles don't get applied to your xml pages.

 

[Duende]

While sitting in a puddle Neal scribbled in the mud:

non-standard hack, should be abandoned.

I feel so alone.