Stupid IE table problems

[OniLink]

Hi,

I am using the following code:

--
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td width="30%" valign="top" class="border"><span class="sub_heading">Years</span></td>
<td width="70%" valign="top" class="border">

<?php
$sql = 'SELECT year FROM all_years WHERE id = "'.$id.'" ORDER BY year ASC';

$result = $db->query($sql);
$numrows = $result->num_rows;
$count = 1;

while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
if ($row['year'] != $tmp) {
if ($count != 1) {
echo ' ,';
}
echo '<a href="main.php?page=year_result&year='.$row['year'].'">'.$row['year'].'</a>';
}
$tmp = $row['year'];
$count++;
}
?>

</td>
</tr>

</table>

In Firefox, the table works correctly and the years wrap once they reach the end of the second column...

In IE, it refuses to wrap and keeps pushing the second column and the page becomes distorted.

Is there something that can be done about this?

Thanks for any help,
~Oni.

[NogDog]

Any possibility of a link to the page in question? If not, could you do a view source on the resulting browser page and post the actual HTML here? (Then I could look at it with both browsers and see what's going on.)

[OniLink]

I have sent you a PM (due to certain circumstance).

[NogDog]

Hmmm...I don't know why it matters, but when I put in a space after the commas, it seemed to fix it. (Just a lucky hunch.) So try changing the part that adds the commas and see if that fixe it:

if ($count != 1) {
echo ', ';
}

[bradgrafelman]

If you really want to make your head spin, put some long text (with no breaks, e.g. "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" repeatedly) in a TEXTAREA element that automatically wraps. In IE, it should look fine, but in FireFox it will not wrap and cause a horizontal scrollbar to appear. Add a space in there, and FF will wrap properly.

(Note that I haven't tested this lately... I just know it's done this in recent versions of FF, perhaps not the latest?)

[OniLink]

Thanks guys, the space after the ',' made it work :] Even though it should of worked because there was a space before it too.

Cheers,
~Oni.

[bradgrafelman]

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