Netscape Help

[gntombel]

Hi mates,

I'm designing a website and I've tested all browsers but Netscape is giving me a problem. It creates a huge space between two tables which are within <td></td> tags. I've tried setting the vertical alignment to top but it still doen't clear the space.

Please help.

[Arne]

I'm designing a website and I've tested all browsers but Netscape is giving me a problem. It creates a huge space between two tables which are within <td></td> tags. I've tried setting the vertical alignment to top but it still doen't clear the space.

Tested with all browsers? Do you know how many there is? :-)
What do you mean with "Netscape is giving me a problem"? The browser? What version? What editor do you use to create the page?. Giving the URL to the page could be a good idea, because it's hard to see anything in the crystal ball :-)

Try to validate the page on http://validator.w3.org/
A validation may give you ideas where to look and find whatever is causing the problem.

[gntombel]

The page link is: http://www.africanwildlifephotos.co.za/amphibians.html

Thanks for your efforts.

[Proteus]

I didn't see any huge space... great website!

PS. I used Netscape 7.1

[Arne]

The page link is: http://www.africanwildlifephotos.co.za/amphibians.html
Thanks for your efforts.

I can't see anything indicating abnormal space anywhere. Looks just fine to me. I'm on Mozilla 1.7.3, but that's no big difference to Netscape 7.x

Ofcause there is the so called "carriage return" effect that can lead to unwanted white space in mostly older browsers. I guess that is fixed in all newer versions.

To avoid carriage returns you can change in the coding that looks like this:
<tr>
<td class=heading width="80">Area</td>
<td class=heading width="99">Subcategory</td>
</tr>

to this:

<tr><td class=heading width="80">Area</td><td class=heading width="99">Subcategory</td></tr>

But as I see it, it's not nessecery to do it anymore.

But what I'm wondering about, is why you are using the XHTML doctype on most(?) pages and a frame contruction for the site? Change to HTML 4.01 Strict and add a character encoding, and you will have a valid site after only a few minor errors to fix :-) But the frames construct looks only ridiculous.

[boombatower]

Of couce anything that MS makes usually has problems with non MS programs, since they think they want there product to dominate the market. As for the Netscape problem I don't see any probelms. If you look in an old version of IE it probably looks bad too, cause all of us using new versions have no problems.

[webado]

Concerning the fonts, you should probably stick to Verdana, leave Times New Roman out since this is what looks too small an puny. It's not a nice font for the web at all.

I am looking at the html code behind your page and I'm pulling my hair out. What a royal mess MS Publisher has managed to make of everything!

What in heaven's name is all that code like:

<![if !vml]>

supposed to do? It looks like it may decide between 2 things and it chooses not to display something in IE and something else in Firefox. :?