Cells change size in Mozilla & Netscape.....

[pinkpanther]

Hello there,

I have made a page in fp and in internet explorer it is fine, but when I
went to view it in Mozilla and Netscape, the cells had changed sizes and the
borders are all over the place!!? this is the url:

http://www.bridale-architectural-antiques.co.uk/Online-shop.html

Does anyone who knows about these things have a minute to check why this is
and how I can make it ok?

Many thanks in advance,

Miranda

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

One of the problems with table cells, the width is only a recommended value
according to the standards. The browsers don't have to enforce it strictly
if they don't want to. Navigator, and later Mozilla, but liked to collapse
table cells down. To combat this is relatively simple, you need to place
something in there to hold it open. The simples, is a spacer image. All you
do is create a 1 pixel wide by 1 pixel high image in a paint program. This
lonely pixel is colored white, then saved as a gif with the transparancy
color set to white. This leaves you with an image that is only one pixel and
completely transparent. Now you can insert it into a table cell and set the
image properties to the width you want. In other words, with the image tag,
you can set the width of the image to appear as whatever you need it to,
such as 100 pixels. The little guy is still technically only 1 pixel wide,
but the browser stretches him out to be 100 pixels (or whatever you need).

 

[pinkpanther]

Mark, thank you SO much for your answer and your time! really appreciated!

best wishes to you,

Miranda