I am designing a site on a mac, and on Safari, this html works fine, with continuous flow from row to row.... Patting myself on the back for a job well done, I was about to rollout a template using server side includes for different sections - when I decided to view the mast I was working on in Internet Explorer...

The Cell I have the rollover graphics and image map in, is stretched vertically, by about 5 pixels. Now the tabs I am going to be using for category navigation don't sit on the border like they should, and the logo in the same row is broken up because, of course, now the row is too tall for the image.

Any ideas why the cell is too large?

Here's the address.

www.signexp.com/CSE/welcome-mast5.html


If you wonder why I am doing it this way - I want the folder tab to remain "lit" depending on which category the user is visiting, each category will feature different rollover navigation buttons on the left side of the page - that are independent by category.

THanks for your input. I will post more as the site gets closer to completion for your critique.

-pete

........<img name="wtab_01" src="images/wtab_01.gif" width="510" height="20" border="0" alt="" usemap="#wtab_01_Map">
		<map name="wtab_01_Map"><area shape="poly" alt="" .......

see the gap between usemap="#wtab_01_Map"> AND <map name="wtab_01_Map"> remove it so it looks like

........<img name="wtab_01" src="images/wtab_01.gif" width="510" height="20" border="0" alt="" usemap="#wtab_01_Map"><map name="wtab_01_Map"><area shape="poly" alt="" .......

so there are no spaces or tabspaces there, u should then be right in internet explorer

Still has what looks like cell spacing, or padding in the one row.

Any other ideas? (I might just re-do the images so it fits in a 25 pixel cell instead of 20.)

try removing most of the spaces and tabs INCLUDING NEW LINES (enter spaces) and see if that works, it may look a little messy but with trial and error u can sort out ur problem

Thanks Pr0jekt - that was it. I had tabs in all of the map area definitions. At first I didn't notice it, but now they're gone, and the header displays as it should.
-Pete

your very welcome, internet explorer doesnt do a good job at deciding wheretabs/whitespace should go