fordguy67 — Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:25:00 +0000

Well, I got it to work, somehow... I went back through all 113 pages of this website and messed with the layers a little bit and changed the background of the layers to white, then I overlapped them with other layers, all being said, it looks the same in IE and Netscape now. I just wish there would have been an easier way than 5 hours of extra work...

Arielladog — Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:03:00 +0000

netscape doesn't allow layers within a table. One way to get aroudn this is to surround the layers with ilayers.

for example, you have:

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<layers>blahblah</layer>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

well, you would change that to:

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<ilayer>
<layers>blahblah</layer>
</ilayer>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Also, dreamweaver has an option to convert tables to layers and layers to tables. I don't have dreamweaver, but I have used it, and it shouldn't be too hard to find.

Suzanne — Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:11:00 +0000

Tables and layers in Netscape will always give you a headache. Unfortunately, the most popular browsers right now are the most divergent in support. IE 4 and 5 are very stable (but for bad reasons in some cases) and NN 4 is not DOM compliant, but NN6 is but it's terrible!

That said, I am finding a lot of designers are using advanced "complicated" table layouts because they don't know how to do it simply. Tons of nested tables not because they have to but because they don't know any better.

The workarounds can be complex (using JavaScript to add borders to tables (using nesting or adding rows/columns) for NN 4 for instance) but right now your choice is weird workarounds or living with different looks.

Soapbox speech aside, why not take the code and upload it to a public server so people can help you? You aren't going to get a lot of help if people can't see what you are talking about. Even a snip of code can help.

Suzanne

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Lloyd Hassell — Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:29:00 +0000

Post a URL for the page so we can take a look at it. From memory some versions of Netscape have problems with nested tables.