OT: Results and (minor) Advice

Unfortunately, Netscape 4.7x (Windows) renders your table cells with a black background.

There may be a couple of tricks that might help.

Consider embedding CSS into the content instead of using an external stylesheet (which shouldn't be too difficult as you're using PHP).

(Update: ichimunki raises a good point. Sadly, Netscape 4.7 has a bug regarding linked stylesheets. This is only one reason why I occasionally rant about non-compliant browsers.)
Make sure you define rules for <TD>, <TH>, and <TR>.
Make sure you use and close your <P> tags.

Note sure if you've seen this site, but it contains a lot of CSS related information, including a page documenting many of the most egregious problems.

Hope this helps...

--f

P.S. As far using CSS and cookies go, I'm with Blue: Go for it.

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Re: OT: Results and (minor) Advice by ichimunki (Priest) on Jan 29, 2001 at 21:06 UTC
My own bias would be against embedding style information into the HTML document unless absolutely necessary to assist the user agent in displaying the information (i.e. layout is integral to the information being displayed). Usually this is not the case. Putting the CSS into its own document makes the original document smaller, and heightens awareness that style is not content on the part of the designer.	[reply]
Re: OT: Results and (minor) Advice by extremely (Priest) on Jan 30, 2001 at 01:57 UTC
Actually, If you EVER close a P tag, you need to close them all, I've had better results never closing them. Also, I've learned not to mix inline style with external stylesheets since you can't ever tell what will happen when you do. All major browsers seem to have one issue or another with mixing inline and external. -- $you = new YOU; honk() if $you->love(perl)	[reply]
Re: Re: OT: Results and (minor) Advice by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Jan 30, 2001 at 21:32 UTC
Unless you're like me with aspirations towards XHTML-compliance, then closing all of them is somewhat mandatory. :)	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: OT: Results and (minor) Advice by extremely (Priest) on Jan 30, 2001 at 22:40 UTC
Closing them is mandatory but you are welcome to use the <P /> form. =P Since the DTDs are very clear that the P element only contains %Inline content, any other block type element automatically closes the P element, just like HTML. And doing so keeps you out of trouble trying to do things like: `<P>Blah blah <ul> <li />blarg <li />Blerg </ul> </P> <-- bad bad bad! P can't contain other blocks.` [download] -- $you = new YOU; honk() if $you->love(perl)	[reply] [d/l]