Sent by Philippe Wittenbergh on 29 December 2004 02:02
On 29 Dec 2004, at 4:20 am, Peter-Paul Koch wrote:
>> It seems that IE 5.2 for Mac OS X has some problems with TD elements.
>> Specifically, it acts similar to the IE5/WIN box model when dealing
>> with table cells. Here's the scenario.
>
> Actually the bug is more widespread than this: While TD's in Explorer
> Mac are locked in the traditional box model, in Explorer 6 Win,
> Mozilla and Opera they're locked in the W3C box model, even when I add
> code to force the traditional border box model.
>
> http://www.quirksmode.org/css/tests/boxtd_strict.html
> http://www.quirksmode.org/css/tests/boxtd_quirks.html
>
> Therefore it's completely impossible to declare a box model for TD's,
> something I wasn't yet aware of.
The puzzling thing is, when you declare a width for column by using the
<col /> tag (see my previous message in this thread), all browsers
correctly size the <td> based on the this, independently of any padding
declared on those <td>. Apparently, not so IE6 Win: it takes the <col
/> width, and adds the padding to compute the width of the <td>.
Given
table {border-collapse:collapse; width:800px;}
col {width:400px}
td.first {padding:0 20px}
<table>
<colgroup><col /><col /></colgroup>
<tr>
<td class="first"></td><td></td>
</tr>
</table>
You end up with a 440px wide table cell in IE6. This is not how the
whole table thing should work, according to the CSS 2.1/HTML 4.01
specs.
(All other browsers compute the width of the <td> to 400px.)
Philippe
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