[ale] Crappy Web Page

[Alex LeDonne]

On 12/19/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> Wow.  That must have been it.
>
> The only difference I see now is in the heading.  In FF "Users" is
> aligned left and in IE it is center.  It should be left.
>
> Any ideas on that one?

Yup. There are nested tables, and you have <TD vAlign=top
align=middle> around the header table. IE respects the align=middle as
meaning "center".


> I would like to convert all 86 pages to XHTML but with the crappy HTML
> that needs to be converted it could take me about a week of full time
> coding.
>
>
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 17:00 -0500, Alex LeDonne wrote:
> > On 12/19/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> > > I've got a web page, actually many, that are screwed up now.  Under
> > > Firefox 2.0 on FC3 these pages actually look good.  I was doing some
> > > testing today on Winders and IE and they looked horrible.  They also
> > > look horrible on Opera and Firefox 2.0 for Windows.  The problem is that
> > > the tables are stair stepping and are not looking like the picture
> > > http://buford.linxdev.com/bugs/LooksGood.png
> > >
> > > Here is the page http://buford.linxdev.com/bugs/user.html
> > >
> > > Can someone tell me other than crappy HTML why it does not look like the
> > > picture in IE?  I need to fix about 80 more pages.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris
> > >
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > When I delete the attribute
> >
> > align="left"
> >
> > from the <table > start tags, I get similar rendering in each. It
> > looks like IE was treating that (deprecated) attribute value in some
> > weird way.
> >
> > -A
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