Sent by Michael Landis on 28 November 2003 19:07
David wrote:
> I'm really confused about IE6's handling of td widths in quirks mode.
> To date I've been assuming that td widths are calculated in IE6 in
> quirks mode the same way boxes are. But I've been debugging a table
> across Mozilla and IE6, and as far as I can see IE is adding the
> CSS-specified cell padding onto the cell widths, rather than
> subtracting it as it would for a box. Is this a known issue? Can
> someone fill in the details?
Although I can't really say about quirks mode-related table treatment, I
can say that each browser seems to treat table cell padding differently. A
big problem is that the specifications describe what width and height mean
in an inline and block element context, but not a table context. Table
elements get scant treatment when it comes to their dimensioning, other
than a link to the block-level text about dimensions. Some browsers include
the padding in the cell width, others don't, even in the same rendering
mode (quirks vs. strict). About the only advice I can offer is to roll with
it -- there isn't much else to do.
Sorry for the bad news,
MikeL
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