Nested Table Not Showing
Steve DeGroof
Opera but did show in IE. I took the source of the web page and stripped
out all of the junk and came up with the following HTML. Two questions:
1. Is this valid HTML? There are two tables in the same cell of a third
table. It's a bit odd but it doesn't appear to be illegal.
2. How should something like this render? I would've expected the "hidden"
table to have a minimum width based on the text in its cell. It appears
to have a zero width instead.
I can make the "hidden" table partially visible by reducing the width of
the "visible" table. I can make it totally visible by adding an align=left
to it or removing the align=left from the other.
<html>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<table align=left width=300>
<tr>
<td>
this text is visible
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
this text is hidden
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Rijk van Geijtenbeek
wrote:
> I noticed a problem with a web site where some text didn't display in
> Opera but did show in IE. I took the source of the web page and stripped
> out all of the junk and came up with the following HTML. Two questions:
> 1. Is this valid HTML? There are two tables in the same cell of a third
> table. It's a bit odd but it doesn't appear to be illegal.
Yep, it is valid.
> 2. How should something like this render? I would've expected the
> "hidden" table to have a minimum width based on the text in its cell. It
> appears
> to have a zero width instead.
Opera had trouble calculating the needed width for the outer table. This
will be fixed in Opera 7.50.
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