CSS and Table problem

[lisnalinchy]

I am having a bit of a problem with some text placement after a table has been displayed. the problem is namely in IE and not in Firefox and its driving me crackers, though I am sure I have overlooked something really simple.

Whats happening is that after inserting a table, text contained in the

tags following the table appear squashed up in the space to the right of the table instead of below it.

Have a look at this code:



This is some text data</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Cell 1</td>
</tr>
</table>


Some more text</p>

Simple enough you might think, so what I need to know is why it is coming out like:

This is some text data

[ Cell 1 ] Some more text data


I have tried everything I can think of -

tags around the table, line breaks, css 'display: block', auto margins on the table, table contained in its own div, and nothing appears to work. Any ideas? I think it is a css problem, but I am not 100% sure.



Anyone come across this before?

Cheers

Mike.[/code]

[benbramz]

i previed the code in ie and i didnt see a problem....

[D3mon]

is there a float:left applied to the table somehow?

[lisnalinchy]

Its more to do with the CSS I think. I was reluctant to post it as it is quite big, but I have copied it onto our external server so you can have a look.

html:

http://www.leedshis.nhs.uk/test/

and css:

[/url]http://www.leedshis.nhs.uk/test/stylesheet/website.css[/url]

[Rob]

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[lisnalinchy]

In reply to D3mon - No, there is a float right applied to the quicklink in the top right, but thats the only float there is.

Cheers

Mike

[benbacardi]

could you not place a <br clear="all"> before the

tags? or maybe put clear="all" into the

tag, i dont know if that works or not.......?

[D3mon]

The table has been set to align="left", which is the HTML equivalent of the CSS style="float:left". Take that out and you'll be back on track.

[lisnalinchy]

You are a star! Cheers. I had almost torn out what little heair I have left. Something so simple can cause so many problems.

Is there any way to override this in CSS so that it cannot happen again? The reason I say that is our users create some the bit between body tags with a visual web based editor (an older version of htmltag).

Cheers

Mike.

[herkalees]

Originally Posted by lisnalinchy

Is there any way to override this in CSS so that it cannot happen again? The reason I say that is our users create some the bit between body tags with a visual web based editor (an older version of htmltag).

Sorta, you could declare all tables to have float:none; inside your CSS file, but it might be overridden if align=left is placed in the html code by your users, since it is more top-level than the external CSS style sheet.

I guess you can only try?

Add this to your CSS sheet:

Code: Select all

table {float:none;}

[Rob]

Unfortunatly, inline styles take precedence over external CSS 95% of the time.... so you'll have to make changes to all the tables by hand.