Re: [WSG] Padding tables in IE

[Peter Ottery]

Andreas wrote:
>>> I am having difficulties getting IE to give a table a padding-left.

 

I dont think adding padding to the table itself is going to be reliable - as youve found out :)

I'd say that what you want to do is add padding to the cell/s of the table.

 

If you want to add padding to one column of the table (in your cae the left column), apply a style to a col tag [1] like this:

<style type="text/css">
.1st-column {padding-left:25px}
</style>

<table border="1">
<col class="1st-column">
<col>
<col>
<tr>
<td>blah blah blah</td>
<td>blah blah blah</td>
<td>blah blah blah</td>
</tr>
</table>

 

 

[1] more info: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_col.asp

 

hope this is of some help,

cheers, pete ottery

 

On 5/2/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I am having difficulties getting IE to give a table a padding-left. I can't
figure out why this doesn't work, but perhaps somebody else can see my
mistake:

http://www.adictivemedia.com.au/clients/gta/home2.html

You can see on the "Drafts Table" that the text overlaps the left side of
the background-image. This only seems to happen in IE - Firefox acknowledges
the padding I gave the table and moves everything 25px inwards:

#draft table{padding:0 15px 0 25px;}

Any ideas on how this could be fixed?

Thanks heaps!

Andreas Boehmer
User Experience Consultant

Phone: (03) 9386 8907
Mobile: (0411) 097 038
http://www.addictiveMedia.com.au
Consulting | Accessibility | Usability | Development

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