Table
Dangers in Netscape
By Jack Chen
How to spruce up your
web design
1. Black
Borders
Some web designers like to create thin
rows and columns around their table and fill them up with
black to create borders around the table. But beware of
Netscape, it has a different interpretion than Internet
Explorer!
The problem with Netscape is that it
doesn't show empty rows or columns in a table. So if you
create a row or a column, change its background to black and
don't put anything inside, Netscape will not show
it.
Here's the
solution:
First, create a 1x1 pixel transparent
gif file and name it "trans.gif". Then edit the source of
your HTML document, and insert "trans.gif" inside every
border.
Example
=======
Old Code:
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=2
BGCOLOR="#000000">
</TD>
</TR>
New Code:
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=2
BGCOLOR="#000000">
<IMG
SRC="images/trans.gif">
</TD>
</TR>
=======
Now that the "border" has something in
it, Netscape will obediently show your beautiful black
borders!
[ Note: You can
download a transparent 1x1 image from the following URL:
http://www.addme.com/images/trans.gif ]
2. More About
Borders
Tables come with their own borders. If
you don't specify the thickness of the borders, Internet
Explorer will go with the default: 0 . Netscape will go with
the default too, but it will not appear the way it does in
Internet Explorer
If you don't specify the borders, your
table will be surrounded by a transparent border.
Here's the
solution:
Example:
========
Old Code:
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD
BGCOLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD
BGCOLOR="#000000"></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
New Code:
<TABLE BORDER=0>
<TR>
<TD
BGCOLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD
BGCOLOR="#000000"></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
========
The old code will make the black
columns look spaced out in Netscape, as Netscape creates a
transparent border around your table. But if you forcefully
tell Netscape that you want the border to be "0", Netscape
will have no choice but to remove that transparent
border.
That's it! Hope this helps with your
tables and thank you for reading!
- Jack Chen -
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