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table width=100% not 100% in IE5.5 unless refresh-why?

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pixelbro

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I've not been able to get a table to fill the entire screen when I set <table width=&quot;100%&quot;...>. The table almost fills the screen but stops 10 pixels from the right vertical scroll bar. Refreshing the screen or quickly resizing the screen corrects the problem. What's weird is I don't have this problem viewing other sites with 100% width tables.

I initially spotted the problem with a two column, one row table with the right column set at align=&quot;right&quot; ie, <td align=&quot;right&quot;...>. Decided to simplify and have just have a single row, single column table. With both <table width=&quot;100%&quot;...> and <td width=&quot;100%&quot;...> or with just <table width=&quot;100%&quot;...> nothing works, ie initial page loads 10-pixels shy of the right margin.

Any ideas?

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That it works after refresh throws me a bit off, otherwise it might be the margin-settings of the body... This is not a bug - it's an undocumented feature...
;-)
 
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Hi,

Can you please provide all of your code so i can try and replicate the problem

Cheers

 
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For what it's worth here's the code. This is just a test, ie, the simplest, one-row, one-column table with background colors in body and table td to help spot if the table extends full distance or not. Thanks Jonax and JamesUniguy for your interest.

pixelbro

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<html>
<head>
<title>clickgene</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor=&quot;#FFCC33&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; topmargin=&quot;0&quot; leftmargin=&quot;0&quot;>

<table width=&quot;100%&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot;>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=&quot;#FF6600&quot;>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>
 
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I have been fighting this for days myself. Figured it out, the obvious <body topmargin=&quot;0&quot; leftmargin=&quot;0&quot; rightmargin=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot;> DeZiner
Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that amateurs built the Ark.
Professionals built the Titanic
 
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