Closed Bug 392319 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

HTML using 4 cols with equal width=25%, first col is too narrow

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
trivial

Tracking

()

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: Howard_Cary_Morris, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Congoo NetPass; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; FDM; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30) Build Identifier: 7.0.5730.11 used following code <table width='100%' > <col> <colgroup><Col width="25%"><Col width="25%"><Col width="25%"><Col width="25%"> </colgroup> First column much narrower than other 3, entire HTML copied below <html> <head> <title>Howard’s Favorites</title> </head> <body> <div align=center> <h1><a href="mailto:Howard%20%3cHoward_Cary_Morris@hotmail.com)%3e?subject=About%20Favorites">Howard</a>’s Favorites</h1> <div align=left> <h2>Category </h2> <h3>Location or sub category</h3> <table width='100%' > <col> <colgroup><Col width="25%"><Col width="25%"><Col width="25%"><Col width="25%"> </colgroup> <tr valign=top> <td> <h3>Games</h3><ul> <li><a href="http://www.thegamershack.com/">Cribbage</a> <li><em>Cases</em><ul> <li><a href="http://www.igl.net/teamcrib/">Old <li><a href="http://igl.net/teamgscrib/">New </a> </ul> <li><a href="http://www.gamehouse.com/onlinegames/">Gamehouse</a> </ul> <td> <h3>News</h3><ul> <li><a href="http://www.jpost.com/">Jerusalem Post </a> <li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times </a> <li><a href="http://jta.org/">JTA </a> <li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/">CNN</a> <li><a href="http://www.theAtlantic.com/">Atlantic</a> <li><a href="http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/world.html">France Public TV</a> </ul> <td> <h3>Math</h3><ul> <li><a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/">Math World </a> </ul> <td> <h3>Email</h3><ul> <li><a href="http://hotmail.com/">Hotmail </a> <li><a href="https://swmail.southwest.tn.edu/exchange/">STCC</ul> </table> </body> </html> Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Made this HTML my private home page 2. Started Firefox 3. May or may not make font larger Actual Results: First column of table is narrrower than other 3 Expected Results: All four columns of table should have same length Valign=top does not make a difference Did not check of following made a diference: <h3> in table cell <ul> and imbedded <ul> in table cell - only first column had imbedded <ul>
Well a good start would be to make your html validate with http://validator.w3.org/ because atm it looks like it's all over the place and there's many tags you don't even bother to close.
(In reply to comment #1) > Well a good start would be to make your html validate with > http://validator.w3.org/ because atm it looks like it's all over the place and > there's many tags you don't even bother to close. That seemed to fix the problem - thank you
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Resolution: FIXED → INVALID
no probs!
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