IE bug - need help fixing it!

As normaly i was developping my website, and previweing with ff.
when i went to see it on IE, it had the major bug.
This is the deal, i have a table surrounded by 4 tables, all sides.
so i can't increase that specifiy table height or width.
But the menu left like 30px available. with a bg color image.

So i took Javascript and resized that 30px image, and made one 1 picture that i set as 0 height and width.
Great.
Firefox understood, solution of genious.

IE, strangly, leaves like 5 px between images, and increases the table height.

So i tried using a div before the images.
I set it to display: none; and the other 30px image to block;
I then with javascript, changed both, and worked with firefox again.
And IE, does the same thing... weird 5px white spaces between images.
Table gets screwed up.

This is a very graphic site, and i need a drop down menu.
I needed something simple as making visible\invisible or changing things height.
Because i can't use some layer technichs there, not DHTML drop down menus.
Table gets screwed.

Any ideas ?

A link would help, although I have a feeling your code will frighten me.

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very difficult to follow it all...

1. Gives us a url, screenshot and/or some code...
2. IE adds an annoying margin to images by default. clear that magrin by adding this to your style sheet: img{ margin:0; }

img {margin:0; padding:0; border:0;}

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not my thing actually.
css and div's from the begin would be gr8.
but i've just started working here, and they left me with a: sliced website, they needed done.

so .. here we go: www.croma.pt/example.html
Try what i told you: try firefox and click "Empresa"
Then IE..


Any help appreciated, even.. if it's not this way.
If someone can help me with css hack, to position perfectly a layer in position:absolute, over the "Serviços" button on the menu, but invisible, containing the 3 images.

But it needs to be adjusted from the table, it will be a problem with resolutions > 1024.
Since this is a 800+ optimized website.

Yup, that code frightens me! Personally I would scrap the whole thing and start it over using valid and semantic XHTML Strict and CSS.

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Let's say, they don't give me the time for it.
Since the other idiot who started this, he left it and said it was almost done.
You know bosses, they are like clients, think everything is possible, nah, it's not a margin problem, really appreciate, you fight the mighty fear, and try to help me
lol!

heh well I would explain this to your boss if you can without getting in trouble.

Tell him the pro's/Cons of doing it the right way.

Pro's being the site will load faster, use less bandwidth, will be easier to maintain, and cost less to maintain/update thus saving him/the company money.

The site will be accessible and have a broader base of users who can view/use the site which in turn may lead to more business and profit.

It will yield better search engine rankings thus making it easier to find which could lead to more business and profit.

Con's:

Development time may be a bit longer.

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I started this week, don't get me fired yet.
And they'r just starting web-developping, since this is a 'Outside Publicity' company.

I just wonder if it's even possible to make IE view this correctly.
... :\

Can you control a simple layer with 3 images, adjusting it to the <td> width ?

AND IT WORKS.
MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER LITTLE ****'S STRIKES AGAIN.

ty *
i'l stick around

oh dear god the code is horrific. Glad you solved your problem though,

I forgot about spacer.gif images! Nothing like those good ol' tables. You really should specify a doctype on this page. I didn't find the code that horrific, though.