Re: DOCTYPE/Table formating unwanted space

Mon, 27 Aug 2001 06:38:33 -0700 

aleph-zero wrote:
> 
> I was hoping someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong. I'm putting a image
> inside a table cell and I want the table cell to collapse so it only
> contains the image:
> 
> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
>      <tr>
>           <td bgcolor="red"><img src="images/Header/Head.png" height="58"
> width="500" alt="Header" /></td>
>      </tr>
> </table>
> 
> This works fine in all browsers without any DOCTYPE declaration. However, as
> soon as I add the doctype declaration, something like:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html
>      PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>      "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> 
> netscape 6 adds a four pixel space at the bottom of the table-cell. I've
> been trying to work out how to get rid of this, using various styles and
> doctypes, to no avail. Can anyone tell me how I can get rid of this unwanted
> space?

Use the style "display:block" or "vertical-align:bottom"
for the image.
See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22274 .

Clarence

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