Re: Unknown IE Table Issues

Your markup looks like it's 10 years old...

I realize that... I'm certainly not a high-class programmer, I have
learned a little hand-coding along the way but mostly I use
Dreamweaver. I know that is looked down upon by most "real" coders,
but I love what I do and can help people with what I DO know...
However, it is past time that I upgraded as I am still using the MX
2004 version which is probably the source of my problems.

You're also controlling presentation with thousands of attributes on
each table cell (HTML 3.2 style).

Dreamweaver tends to do this automatically, which is why I've fallen
into such a horrible mess. I'm learning more CSS so this will be a
good exercise for me.

Remove all the attributes from the
table elements. Replace them with just a few class attributes, and
then attach all the presentation stuff via CSS.

I modified the top portion of the first table "Events and Specials".
I took out all the <td> attributes and replaced the background using
CSS, but now it isn't showing up at all. In addition, I can't get the
text in that cell to do what I want now. I put in a <span> over the
text but that isn't working, plus I'm pretty sure there is a better
way to do that.

This isn't a quick fix, I admit.

As long as the sites work and I continue to learn and work my way to
coding by hand, then I'm okay with things not being a quick fix. It
will take me some time, like I said, but I want to learn which is why
I am asking the people who know best.

Thanks again.

.

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