Posted by Smiley on 11/06/75 11:39

"Mitja Trampus" <nun@example.com> wrote in message
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> we don't know why IE does this. At least me - I've tried applying height
> to tr instead of td, using non-quirks mode, using table-layout:fixed -
> none worked.

So, it's a bug in IE then?

> So... tackle the problem differently. If you insist on a table-based
> layout, go for nested tables <puke>.
> Another alternative, as Uncle Pirate hinted, is to use DIVs and CSS.
>
> Try describing what layout you're trying to get, and perhaps we can come
> up with a more elegant solution than these tables...

Okay, I wanted to put a background image in the top left cell that had a
height of 160. Unfortunately, in IE, the background image repeated itself
because it seemed to ignore the height property.

The bottom left cell would be blank, and the right side cell would contain
text. I used <BR>'s in my example because I didn't want to reproduce the
text I was going to use here and using a bunch of <BR>'s takes much less
room than quoting Lorem Ipsum.

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