El 21/10/13 17:05, Chris Rockwell escribió:
Check out this article from 456bereastreet.com:
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200704/how_to_prevent_html_tables_from_becoming_too_wide/
Specifically:
The layout model of tables differ from that of block level elements in that
they will normally expand beyond their specified width to make their
contents fit. At first that may sound like a good thing – and it often is –
but it makes it possible for oversized content to make text unreadable or
completely break a site’s layout, especially in Internet Explorer.
Thanks everybody for your replies. And apologies for forgetting to do
the validation! I really should know by now.
This last piece of info (quoted) has particularly widened my knowledge.
I knew there was a reason why I avoided table layouts like the plague
(but had forgotten what it was).
As I said in my original post, I'm not actually associated with this
site, so all I can do is mess with it in Firebug - which I might just do
to try out some of your suggestions. However, I'm guessing that
correcting the HTML errors would be the place to start if the site were
mine.
Many thanks again for the info.
Peter
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*Peter Bradley*
peredur.net <http://www.peredur.net>
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