HTML question - why does the table keep resizing in Netscape?

[Entity]

I'm resdesigning a departmental webpage, and it has to be both Netscape 4.7 (for Solaris) compatible and IE compatible. When I designed this page: Link, for example, it looks fine in IE (I'm not doing a complete redesign - just taking some stuff from the old page and putting it in a new format - Old Page. However, in NS, for some reason, the bar for the right table keeps resizing. Any idea what piece of code I'm missing somewhere in one of those files that is making it not be constant?

Please LMK.

thanks,
Rob

 

[mrCide]

width is percentage, not pixels.. ?

 

[Entity]

Nope, I have the width set to 153 pixels.

Rob

 

[gopunk]

i see you are working for the uw... excellent...

anyways, check the widths of the other columns, sometimes those can affect like that.

 

[littleprince]

its not resizing, its being re-centered?!?
if its not that, sorry, dunno what you mean than...

 

[Shy]

It has to do with the width of the column in the table that is displaying all of your information.

make sure you set an appropriate width there

 

[DannyLove]

OMG: its Entity!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when did you come back from the journey? wow, i've been away from AT, so wheres the celebration !

danny~!

 

[Entity]

Hola Danny. I got back two weeks ago, and have just started to get back into posting. I'm trying to take readjustment easy. It's hard coming back to the big city.

The width of the column displaying the info is set to 590, which should be the appropriate width. I'll BRB and double check...

Rob

 

[ghostman]

I didn't look through your entire code, but perhaps it's because you have an embedded table within your main table that's set to 100%. It looks like while IE can understand to stop at 590, Netscape is trying to take up the as much of the 760 as it can without breaking individual words (in this case "Information" is holding the menu up). Try placing a fixed width within the embedded table or stopping word wrap on the table data on the left (I forget how to do this one).

 

[Shy]

Sorry, first off, you need to take the width out of <table> and then simply set widths for everything else. (the <td>'s)

 

[Entity]

Thanks Shy.

Rob

 

[nukefarmer]

I always create a 1x1 transparent image (.gif) and then use that image to force the column widths.
e.g. in your case put this as the first row of the table (trans.gif is the transparent image):

<tr><td><img src=&quot;trans.gif&quot; width=153 height=1></td><td><img src=&quot;trans.gif&quot; width=3 height=1></td><td><img src=&quot;trans.gif&quot; width=1 height=1></td><td><img src=&quot;trans.gif&quot; width=13 height=1></td><td><img src=&quot;trans.gif&quot; width=590 height=1></td></tr>

 

[DannyLove]

do you remember this? I dont know why i kept that. just remembered i had it

danny~!

btw: welcome back

 

[Shy]

<< I always create a 1x1 transparent image (.gif) and then use that image to force the column widths.
e.g. in your case put this as the first row of the table (trans.gif is the transparent image):

<tr><td><img src=&quot;trans.gif&quot; width=153 height=1></td><td><img src=&quot;trans.gif&quot; width=3 height=1></td><td><img src=&quot;trans.gif&quot; width=1 height=1></td><td><img src=&quot;trans.gif&quot; width=13 height=1></td><td><img src=&quot;trans.gif&quot; width=590 height=1></td></tr> >>



Ooh, thats a really smart solution. Very nice.

 

[Kosugi]

Whats Netscape?