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If I veiw the following HTML in IE 5 or 6:

<table>
<tr> <td colspan="2">
________________________CELL1_____________________
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="background-color: green;width:100px;">
CELL2
</td>
<td>
CELL3
</td></tr>
</table>

The columns with CELL2 comes out a lot wider than 100px. As a matter of
fact, I've tried experimenting with different widths and it looks like
it's adding the specified width to half the width of the "CELL1" cell.
It looks OK in Firefox, so is this some kind of bug or am I missing
something?

In news,
Glen K <> expounded:
| If I veiw the following HTML in IE 5 or 6:
|
| <table>
| <tr> <td colspan="2">
| ________________________CELL1_____________________
| </td></tr>
| <tr><td style="background-color: green;width:100px;">
| CELL2
| </td>
| <td>
| CELL3
| </td></tr>
| </table>
|
| The columns with CELL2 comes out a lot wider than 100px. As a matter
| of fact, I've tried experimenting with different widths and it looks
| like it's adding the specified width to half the width of the "CELL1"
| cell. It looks OK in Firefox, so is this some kind of bug or am I
| missing something?

It does for me, too. I noticed that your content line in HTML is 380px long.
That is taken to be colspan x 2 apparently. While FF and NS heed the width
of the td in cell 2, IE does not. Try making your content line 200 px wide
and make the td width for cell 2 50%. It appears right in all three. I'm
guessing IE bug.

<table>
<tr> <td colspan="2">
_______________________CELl 1__ (make this 200px)
</td></tr>
<tr><td style="background-color: green;width:50%;">
CELL2
</td>
<td>
CELL3
</td></tr>
</table>


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stephen

"Glen K" <> wrote in message
news...
> If I veiw the following HTML in IE 5 or 6:
>
> <table>
> <tr> <td colspan="2">
> ________________________CELL1_____________________
> </td></tr>
> <tr><td style="background-color: green;width:100px;">
> CELL2
> </td>
> <td>
> CELL3
> </td></tr>
> </table>
>
> The columns with CELL2 comes out a lot wider than 100px. As a matter of
> fact, I've tried experimenting with different widths and it looks like
> it's adding the specified width to half the width of the "CELL1" cell.
> It looks OK in Firefox, so is this some kind of bug or am I missing
> something?

Known bug. IE figures out how much leftover space it has from the colspanned
cell and apportions that space over the other cells, in addition to your
width.

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Cheers
Richard.

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:57:58 +0000, rf wrote:

>
> "Glen K" <> wrote in message
> news...
>> [quoted text muted]
>
> Known bug. IE figures out how much leftover space it has from the colspanned
> cell and apportions that space over the other cells, in addition to your
> width.

Is there any work-around for this? I want to create a web page with a
banner image across the top and a fixed width menu bar on the left and the
main content on the right. I'd like to avoid using <DIV>'s since it a
pain to try and get them to look the way you want.

Glen K wrote in
<>

> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:57:58 +0000, rf wrote:
>
>>
>> "Glen K" <> wrote in message
>> news...
>>> [quoted text muted]
>>
>> Known bug. IE figures out how much leftover space it has from the
>> colspanned cell and apportions that space over the other cells, in
>> addition to your width.
>
> Is there any work-around for this? I want to create a web page with a
> banner image across the top and a fixed width menu bar on the left
> and the main content on the right. I'd like to avoid using <DIV>'s
> since it a pain to try and get them to look the way you want.

I'm surprised at that but YMMV - I'd suggest a look at:
http://bluerobot.com/web/layouts/layout1.html
http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev.../template.html

Both offer what you seem to be wanting.

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