Earlier versions of IE do not display cell background without a space.
I use a small transparent gif as a spacer for tables and special text
alignment.
Bruce Young wrote:
>
> >ooops, never mind. I was able to cheat the problem with an
> >
>
> Hi Suzanne
>
> I've also been doing a large amount of table cell colours recently and yes,
> is a solution, BUT I did notice that IE4.01 doesn't need to have
> anything in a cell and will show the colour. I mention this as you may do a
> design thinking that things won't show if they don't have a space in them
> but they will in IE4.01 (haven't tested other IE's). To get around that
> problem I explicitly set the cell colour to the "background" so that you
> can't see it.
>
> Sorry, I can't show you the page... as usual it's in a protected area. I
> needed a lot of coloured bits to do a web based job tracking system
> (ColdFusion and Access) and present reports. The colours help define areas
> for different purposes and also aid in the reading of the reports.
>
> ttfn
> Bruce
>
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