[ale] OT: Can MS IE Really Be This Broken?

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Sep 20 12:54:01 EDT 2004


Unless you _want_ the second table to be nested inside the first, you
need to close the the first table before you start the next one.

Run your template code through a w3c validator to bang out any errors.

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 12:34, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I've attached a small bit of HTML that is a mock-up of the output of a
> utility I'm trying to write.  I'm not at all a Web developer, but I
> cribbed the HTML from one or more HTML guides I Googled.  
> 
> In Mozilla and in Konqueror, the two tables display exactly as I
> intended and expected.  However, in IE, the second table appears to the
> RIGHT of the first table, which seems to run counter to everything I
> thought I understood about HTML table formatting.  
> 
> Unfortunately, the primary audience of the HTML generated by my utility
> will be using IE by force (in other words, any invective I might
> generate about the use of standards-abhorrent Web browsers will fall on
> deaf ears).  So, does anyone have any idea how I can kluge this up so it
> will render in IE more or less the way it renders elsewhere?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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