I'm getting a weird problem when I try and absolutely position something in a table caption. It all works fine in IE, but in Firefox if I try the page below the caption is only as wide as the first cell in the table. If I remove the "display:block;" on the caption then the caption is the full width of the table but the absolutely positioned "em" element is in the top left of the page rather than of the caption element. Any one have any ideas on what's going on here?
Jake <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Annual Report</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- caption { text-align:left; margin:0; padding:0 0 0 45px; position:relative; width:535px; Display:block; } caption h5 em { position:absolute; left:0; top:0; width:40px; height:40px; color:#FFF; text-align:center; display:block; background-color:#111; font-style:normal; font-size:x-small; padding:2px; } </style> </head> <body> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><caption><h5><em>Table 3.1</em> Performance results:</h5> <strong>Performance indicators and actual performance:</strong> processing responses to ministerial correspondence, 2003–04 and 2004–05</caption> <tr> <th valign="top"><p><strong> </strong></p></th> <th valign="top"><p><strong> </strong></p></th> <th colspan="2" valign="top"><p align="center"><strong>Result </strong></p></th> </tr> <tr> <th valign="top"><p><strong>Performance indicator </strong></p></th> <th valign="top"><p align="right"><strong>Target </strong></p></th> <th valign="top"><p align="right"><strong>2003–04 </strong></p></th> <th valign="top"><p align="right"><strong>2004–05 </strong></p></th> </tr></table> </body></html> ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
