On CSS and frustration:
I wanted to have a number of HTML elements/containers lined up along a horizontal axis whose width I could dynamically assign. Like so:
But then I found out that SPAN elements don't respond to width, height, margin-top, or margin-bottom in Mozilla/Netscape6.1 or Opera 5.2. So then I thought well, let's use tables, they're still considered valid HTML.
But then I ran into a new box model problem.
CSS width test - SPAN vs. TD vs. DIV
span
| table cell |
IE 5, IE 5.5, IE 6 and Netscape 6.1/Mozilla 0.9.4 disagree on whether to add the border to the width of the table cell. It seems that Netscape 6.1 will not add the border to the width...a cursory look at Opera 5.2 and the various versions of IE suggests that they do add the border to the width. Don't quote me on that, wait a bit and I'll verify that as soon as I can.
So, shouldn't the box model diagram for block-level elements apply to table cells? Or are table cells unique? Am I missing something?
Well...it wouldn't be the first time.
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