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A small difference in the way IE and other browsers interpret table attributes:
Browsers other than IE will show padding if it is applied to the table tag.
table {
padding:6px;
}
IE does not recognize table padding, and will show contained elements as flush with the edges of the table.
For example:
This is the way Safari 2.0 renders the code below. Note the 6 pixel white padding area between the edge of the table and the edge of the tr.
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Continue readingFirefox is much stricter in parsing comment tags than Safari or IE.
Comments should have 2 hyphens after the exclamation point, no more, no less, and there should be no hyphens within the body of the comment.
So:
<!--
is OK, but
<!----
is not, particularly in Firefox.
Example 1 shows a table surrounded by a properly formed comment tag.
Example 2 shows the same table surrounded by a tag with too many hyphens – the table and all code between comment tags disappears – in Firefox.
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