Cells containing text are too deep in IE

Niggle · Jul 23, 2003

I have only recently started using CSS's, and seem to be getting the basics right

However, I would like to be able to ensure that cells containing text keep nice and tight. Generally, (in IE for example), they exceed the depth of the text by a considerable amount and look wrong. In Safari and Netscape they look OK.
An example of what I mean is at

http://www.cartoonists.co.uk/newsite

- and you can see the effects in the lower frame in the set. In IE the cells always are twice the depth of the text.

Phil79 · Jul 23, 2003

I'm using IE6 and it looks ok to me.

vbkris · Jul 23, 2003

same here....

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Niggle · Jul 23, 2003

Hmmm - Thanks. maybe it's because I am using a Mac version of IE. 5.2.2
The cells show as being double the text height.

ChrisHunt · Jul 23, 2003

Try specifying a DOCTYPE at the top of the document - this will make it render more consistently across browsers. See

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp

for details of what to put.

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Niggle · Jul 23, 2003

Thanks Chris,

I've just tried that but it doesn't seem to have made a difference.

Incidentally, my software (GoLive6) automatically creates pages with this as the default: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

ChrisHunt · Jul 23, 2003

I think I read somewhere that IE will ignore DOCTYPEs that don't include the proper URL, so try this one:
[tt]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"
>
[/tt]

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