On 2008-11-23 12:00, Doug Jolley wrote:
> When I fill table cells with colors and set cellspacing=0,
> cellpadding=0, border=0, I can get the cells to butt right up against
> one another both vertically and horizontally.  However, when I fill
> the same cells with an image I can't get them to butt up against one
> another vertically although they do butt up against one another
> horizontally.  Does anyone know why that is and what I can do about
> it?  I know that I can use div elements.  I just want to know why this
> doesn't work.  Thanks for any input. 

Images are by default display:inline. They sit on the baseline, which 
leaves space below for descenders. if you add

td img {display:block}

it should work.


  BTW here's some test code I have
> been playing with:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
>  <head><title>td test</title></head>
>  <body>
>   <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
>    <tr>
>     <td>
>      <img src="images/bg1.gif" height="100" width="100" alt="[Image]" />
>     </td>
>    </tr>
>    <tr>
>     <td>
>      <img src="images/bg1.gif" height="100" width="100" alt="[Image]" />
>     </td>
>    </tr>
>   </table>
>  </body>
> </html>
> <<<<<
> 
>       ... doug
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