Why do tables and td's collapse sometimes when they have fixed widths? the look fine after a refresh, but occasionally collapse down on first load.<!--content-->Even if there is a fixed widht, if there is nothing at all in the td's they might collapse because of the way browsers layout tables.<br />
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Got a link to the problem?<br />
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Do you use spacer gifs?<br />
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MNS<!--content-->Yeah, I use spacer images, but this happens even with regular gifs and jpgs too though. the table will collapse on itself sometimes, but looks fine after a refresh. here's a link<br />
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://bpo.indiana.edu">http://bpo.indiana.edu</a><!-- m --><!--content-->First validate (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://validator.w3.org/">http://validator.w3.org/</a><!-- m -->) your page.<br />
There are about 200 corrections that need to be made.<br />
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Do you mean tables do not appear (validate) or that images do not appear (IE bug)?<!--content-->everything still appears to some extent. its never a matter of content not showing up at all. in fact this problem actually occurs very rarely, but sometimes images within a table will become overlapped, as if the table has collapsed. when the page is refreshed everything looks fine.<!--content-->All images should have height and width attributes, this will help with the correct layout during loading.<br />
Then validate! Invalid code causes errors in layout.<!--content-->i'll check both of those possibilities. thanks for the advice!<!--content-->
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Got a link to the problem?<br />
<br />
Do you use spacer gifs?<br />
<br />
MNS<!--content-->Yeah, I use spacer images, but this happens even with regular gifs and jpgs too though. the table will collapse on itself sometimes, but looks fine after a refresh. here's a link<br />
<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://bpo.indiana.edu">http://bpo.indiana.edu</a><!-- m --><!--content-->First validate (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://validator.w3.org/">http://validator.w3.org/</a><!-- m -->) your page.<br />
There are about 200 corrections that need to be made.<br />
<br />
Do you mean tables do not appear (validate) or that images do not appear (IE bug)?<!--content-->everything still appears to some extent. its never a matter of content not showing up at all. in fact this problem actually occurs very rarely, but sometimes images within a table will become overlapped, as if the table has collapsed. when the page is refreshed everything looks fine.<!--content-->All images should have height and width attributes, this will help with the correct layout during loading.<br />
Then validate! Invalid code causes errors in layout.<!--content-->i'll check both of those possibilities. thanks for the advice!<!--content-->