Posted by Gary Dale on 10/13/05 01:25

Dylan Parry wrote:
> Using a pointed stick and pebbles, Gary Dale scraped:
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>>Can someone please explain what is going on here?
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> Could you post a URL? It is very difficult to figure out what is going
> wrong when you only posted the code, which without the images etc is not
> complete.
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Didn't have it running anywhere. Anyway, the problem seems generic.
Tables seem to have hidden, non-removable borders.

I've got some test code in www.muslimcanadiancongress.org/test.html
which shows the problem. To make it less visible, I started the span 2
pixels to the right of the left edge of the page. That makes it line up
with the leftmost column in the table.

To see the problem with the image, just write your own page and put a
border at the bottom of an image.

Another problem is getting the right column to space out properly. With
FireFox it looks perfect. With Konqueror they are too close and with IE
they are too far apart. I've read that IE treats height and width as
suggestions, but it apparently also feels that in doing its
calculations, it should ignore position tags too. To be fair, so does
FireFox, but at least it allowed me to build a div box around things to
position them properly. With Konqueror the problem is mainly the font
sizes it uses.

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