The message 1232455917.19182.19.camel@localhost from Steve Fosdick lists@pelvoux.nildram.co.uk contains these words:
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 12:16 +0000, Chris G wrote:
However neither Firefox 3 nor IE 7 seem to display the table borders correctly. Firefox 3 does really wierd things to some of the borders and IE 7 just shows them with differing thicknesses.
All I want is the same cell/table borders everywhere.
Is it the cells in the bottom right of the table that are not displaying as you would like, i.e. starting just to the right of "Travel south slowly"?
If so these display differently because they are empty. By this I mean completely empty as in there is nothing between the opening <td> and the closing </td> which is not the same a cell that contains only white space which is the case with some of the cells earlier in the table that just look empty. I am not sure where the convention came from that browsers fail to draw borders around empty cells but it does seem to be the case with common browsers.
I normally fix this by putting a non-breaking space in the cell ( ) but I have never tried to do that via open office.
Yes - empty blocks in a table should have the tag - I've never known it to alter the thickness of the border, but its omission can certainly hooter the row.
The tagline should read:
<td> </td>
I'll look at the code Open Office produced when i get home - just going out for half an hour or so...