On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:01:14 +0100 Andreas Schweitzer <Andreas.Schweitzer@hs.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 06:36:27PM -0800, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote: [...]
So, the reason I close the form outside that table is because I am trying to go around bugs on Netscape 4 and IE. As you can see, the cell that holds the form has a black background color. If I close the form inside that cell, IE and NS4 create a new paragraph inside that cell, even if my code never asked for it. And that looks ugly. [...] So, the "trick" that many web developers of my time use a lot (see: hand-written HTML), is to close the </FORM> outside of tables or places where it screws up the design. It is a well-known trick, and so your new parser is going to meet it a number of times in the future. I suggest you
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/extraspace.html (maybe forward this?) i had that problem myself... personally i went for the CSS solution, as dillo (non-css capable) doesn't have that "feature" anyway. when playing with the more more less valid options, i even found some combinations where *mozilla* would NOT display the form AT ALL, while IE still did. Greetings, Thorbem Thuermer