virtualshock
08-07-2002, 04:22 AM
I'm using tables to organize the layout of my web site (like most people). Several of the columns and rows of my table need to have a repeating background. The columns need to by 1px wide and the rows need to be 1px tall. I'm using CSS to size the rows/columns. On IE 5, 5.5 and 6 this works like a dream. On netscape 6, however, i'm having three problems:
1) For columns, if they have a rowspan greater than 2 and i try to have the background repeat using repeat-y, it only repeats for the first row and then stops even though the column takes up several rows. I can work around this by dividing the column up, but this requires more code and increases the load time...albeit not by much. Even more annoying, if the background-attachment is set to fixed, the image disappears completely, but i'm willing to overlook this issue if i can get the first part fixed.
2) The second problem really prevents me from trying to fix the first one. With rows, I can't size them to be 1px tall. I used the css height property, height="1" in the TD tag, and even put in a 1px tall image into the row to try to get it to size correctly (it works for columns, at least) to no success. I'm 99.9% positive that this isn't being caused by the table being a certain size and the row heights not adding up to the total. What's going on here?
3) The third problem I have is the fact that people actually still use Netscape 6 (i'm not even going to mention Netscape 4). I know that creating a page layout isn't easy, but does IE render pages the way that I intend them simply because it's bad compared to Netscape? :confused: I think it's ridiculous that Netscape 6 can't properly show w3c complient pages.
Anyway, any input on problems #1 and 2 is greatly appreciated.
1) For columns, if they have a rowspan greater than 2 and i try to have the background repeat using repeat-y, it only repeats for the first row and then stops even though the column takes up several rows. I can work around this by dividing the column up, but this requires more code and increases the load time...albeit not by much. Even more annoying, if the background-attachment is set to fixed, the image disappears completely, but i'm willing to overlook this issue if i can get the first part fixed.
2) The second problem really prevents me from trying to fix the first one. With rows, I can't size them to be 1px tall. I used the css height property, height="1" in the TD tag, and even put in a 1px tall image into the row to try to get it to size correctly (it works for columns, at least) to no success. I'm 99.9% positive that this isn't being caused by the table being a certain size and the row heights not adding up to the total. What's going on here?
3) The third problem I have is the fact that people actually still use Netscape 6 (i'm not even going to mention Netscape 4). I know that creating a page layout isn't easy, but does IE render pages the way that I intend them simply because it's bad compared to Netscape? :confused: I think it's ridiculous that Netscape 6 can't properly show w3c complient pages.
Anyway, any input on problems #1 and 2 is greatly appreciated.