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Nested Table Problem in NS

The following code displays properly in IE but when viewd in NS the last line displayed ( <p>Here is some test text... ) displays incorrecty... the font and colors are displayed in browser default instead of those I set with the style. The weird thing is that if I remove the nested table everything works find in both browsers. I can't seem to find any error in this code...

Could someone shed some light on me please?

Thanks

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Guild Hoard</TITLE>
<META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META content="MSHTML 5.00.2920.0" name=GENERATOR>

<STYLE>
BODY { BACKGROUND-COLOR:#006699; COLOR:#FFFFFF; FONT-FAMILY:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT:normal; FONT-SIZE:12pt;BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(http://server/designarea/images/tbg.gif);}
TD.tableBorder { BACKGROUND-COLOR:#000000;}
TH { BACKGROUND-COLOR:#FFA500; COLOR:#000000; FONT-FAMILY:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE:12pt; FONT-WEIGHT:bold;}
TD { BACKGROUND-COLOR:#FFFF99; COLOR:#000000; FONT-FAMILY:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE:12pt; FONT-WEIGHT:normal;}
TABLE { BACKGROUND-COLOR:#000000;}
A { COLOR:#FFFF00; FONT-WEIGHT:normal;}TD A { COLOR:#0000FF; FONT-WEIGHT:normal;}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0>
<tr><td class="tableBorder">

      <table cellpadding=1 cellspacing=1 border=0>
            <tr>
                  <td>
                  Test
                  </td>
            </tr>
      </table>

</td></tr>
</table>

<p>Here is some test text. And here is a <a href="">Link</a></p>

</BODY>
</HTML>

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jbirk

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nasile

ASKER

Does it actually boil down to bugs!? Have I stated that I really hate netscape? Well... I Do.

I'm aware of using another tag to get around the problem such as <p>... I was just kind of hoping there was another way to do this or that maybe I had some silly error in my code.

I actually don't use a <p> tag since I don't want to have to worry about setting a tag for every area I place text in the document. I set up a class and then wrapped the whole document in a <div> tag...

<body><div class=blah>
....
....
</div></body>

jbirk

It's definitely a bug, the only question is how best to get around that bug... There are probably quite a few ways to get around it. The P tag just being the first that came to mind for me...
The behavior exhibited definitely categorizes as a bug!

I wish there was a good reliable universal browser out there... ahhh.... the dream.... (I actually prefer Netscape, though I don't 'like' it persay... just like IE less...)

-Josh

nasile

ASKER

Thanks for the input josh... the div tag solution I tried isn't even even sure fire.. the more code that goes in the page the more the problem exist. Looks like I'll have to wrap all the text in tags =(

jbirk

Good luck!
-Josh