Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 08/24/07 17:28

ivan.svaljek@gmail.com wrote:

> Thanks, I've tried that, but it only stretches the nested table to fit
> the outer table bloated size. I've found another reason that makes
> the parent cell stretch in firefox, it's the third row left and right
> cells that have a width of 20%, if i remove the width specifier the
> outer cells shrinks to the same size as in opera, ie.

Parent cell? I've never had a data table where a cell had a "parent
cell." Are you (ab)using tables for layout?

> I keep hearing that firefox is the most standard compliant browser,

Try the Acid2 test with all your browsers.
http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/

I think you will find that, among common browsers, Opera fits that
definition best.

> but it gave me nothing but headaches thus far...

After looking at your page just now, I can see why! :-) Nested
tables... a plethora of divs... inline styles rather than in a
stylesheet, making maintenance a headache... the whole thing wrapped in
a form... JavaScript required...

and finally, perhaps fixing all the errors would help:
<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stjepansvaljek.com%2Fgallery.aspx>
"Failed validation, 89 Errors"

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-bts
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