Yikie tykies, Stephen!
I think the problem is with the display of the table. You are using the default -- automatic layout. This leads to weird math. Cell widths are based on Minimum Content Width (MCW) unless there is a supervening specific cell width as is the case for row 2, cell 2 (505px), and/or if there is an inline width as in your image. Talk about compounding variables! Why 2 different resolutions of the same layout. Perhaps this note sums it up best:
Note. In this algorithm, rows (and row groups) and columns (and column groups) both constrain and are constrained by the dimensions of the cells they contain. Setting the width of a column may indirectly influence the height of a row, and vice versa. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#x2
I interpret that to mean: six of one, half a dozen of the other and good
luck buddy.
I changed the layout to table{table-display: fixed;} and the results were
reliable if not exactly what you wanted. That includes removing the 4 cell
line in the second table. The column width is 149px more or less, give or
take (595 divided by 4 and fudged). Who knows how your server and browser
will render them.
Thanks Drew! This excerpt: "Setting the width of a column may indirectly influence the height of a row, and vice versa." Is utterly priceless. Just... wow. I appreciate the sluthing.
In case anyone's curious, I ended up <mutter>nesting a table</mutter>:
http://www.mechavox.com/sandbox/weirdTable/
(if you tell anyone, I'll deny it)
- Stephen
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