HTML Help

reugle3 · Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Posts: 2

Hi all,

I am having a very similar problem with my site https://www.unecarte.com. Some background images appear in front of the content of the cells in IE 6/7. I would be grateful if someone could help.

Regards.

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4259 Location: MS

Don't see any problems with site in IE. Sure you are not just spamming since that's a commercial site?

reugle3 · Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Posts: 2

I have indeed changed the table into a cleaner "<ul> & <li>" based structure which solved the problem nicely. However I still don't understand why a very similar code using <table> was failing to render properly. Oddly enough the <table> seem to be the real problem because if I create a table with a unique cell containing my new structure it reappears...

<table>
<tr>
<td>

new structure based on <ul>&<li>...

</td>
</tr>
</table>

In any case thanks for your help.

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4259 Location: MS

You're welcome. Might look through these links and see why tables are NOT the way to make web pages. Tables are for data layout only. NOT web page layouts. That went out in the late 1990s.

Tableless Web Design: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableless_web_design
HTML Tutorial: www.hypergurl.com/whatishtml.html

CSS Tutorials:

http://www.w3schools.com/Css/default.asp
http://www.csstutorial.net/
http://www.echoecho.com/css.htm
http://www.html.net/tutorials/css/
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss
http://htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/css/

Images, Tables, and Mysterious Gaps: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Images,_Tables,_and_Mysterious_Gaps
Web-Based Tools for Optimizing, Formatting and Checking CSS: http://sixrevisions.com/css/css_code_optimization_formatting_validation