Sent by DL Neil on 25 November 2003 10:10
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Dave,
> Sure. Here's a simple page that exhibits the problem:
> http://interfacethis.com/misc/css-test/ie-table.html
> - The body margin and padding are set to 0.
> - The DIV has its padding set to 20px.
> - The table has its width set to 100%
> - The table and its cells have 0 for padding, margin, and border.
> Mozilla gets it right: The table is the full width of the available
> space inside the DIV (i.e. the page width minus 40px). But IE6 makes
> the table the full _page_ width, ignoring the DIV's settings and thus
> running off the right side.
This is an IE quirks mode/legacy issue. If you replace the existing DOCTYPE
with:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
then the 100% is relevant to the container (not the viewport). A STRICT
DOCTYPE will also do the biz.
I've forgotten where, but someone else will know - or a bit of Googling will
show you; there is a convenient table of which DOCTYPEs put various versions
of IE (?and perhaps other browsers) into different modes depending upon the
combination of DOCTYPE, URL, and browser.
Regards,
=dn
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