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Different rendering in IE5 and IE6

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gatwick2002

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<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE height="100%" width="100%" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="-1">
<tr>
<td height="100%" width="80">
<TABLE
height="100%" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="-1">
<TR>
<TD id="tdMenu" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #3c739a thin solid; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none">
<TABLE width="100%" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="-1">
<tr>
<TD >QQQQQQQQQQ
</TD>
</tr>
</TABLE>
</TD>

</TR>
</TABLE>
</td>
<td>
DDDDD
</td>
</tr>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

In IE6 this code draws vertical border from top to bottom. The same code in IE 5 draws only small chunk of line. Why? What should I change in it to make it draws itself equally?
 
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already tried <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" > - no effect.
 
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that's a partial doctype and the effect would be the same as having none. A VALID doctype includes the document URL.




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First, your doctype is not valid -- if you look at it, it is not on the list Faomcow gave you.

Second, I am pretty sure there is no such setting as cellpadding="-1". I have never seen that attribute take negative values.

Try again with that and see what happens
 
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Personally, I would run all of your code (both HTML and CSS) through a validator, and fix all of the errors it throws up before continuing to hunt this one down.

I can't sasy for sure (you haven't posted all your code), but from what you have posted, I'm guessing not all of your code is 100% compliant to any of the standards available.

Hope this helps,
Dan
 
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title></title>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE style="height:100%" width="100%" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="-1">
<tr>
<td style="height:100%;width:80;">
<TABLE
style="height:100%" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="-1">
<TR>
<TD id="tdMenu" style="BORDER-RIGHT: #3c739a thin solid; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none">
<TABLE width="100%" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="-1">
<tr>
<TD >QQQQQQQQQQ
</TD>
</tr>
</TABLE>
</TD>

</TR>
</TABLE>
</td>
<td>
DDDDD
</td>
</tr>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

produces no errors upon validation but still draws ugly in IE 5.
 
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No, this isn't about DTD. Without it IE6 goes quirks mode like IE5.

height:100% probably. Use TABLE border="1" to check that.
 
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I agree with vongrunt. height of 100% is not valid. To give an HTML element 100% of the height of the window, you'll need to use some JavaScript along with CSS.

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