[PianoMan]

hi

I've recently made a website that shows all of my friends fantasy football scores. I've done this by saving the excel sheet that includes the data as a webpage, then published it through my .mac account.

It looks fine from my macintosh, but my friends who are windows users say that the bottom of each line (cell) is slightly cut off, so the data doesn't display properly.

Does anyone know why this is happening or how to rectify the problem? I'm using Arial size 10 as the font.

Thanks in advance.

[philzilla]

show. us. code.

[PianoMan]

Originally posted by philzilla:
show. us. code.

how so i do that? I simply created an excel sheet, saved it "as a web page" and then chose that file to add to my .mac homepage account.

[philzilla]

you could always show us the .mac page you're on about

[PianoMan]

Originally posted by philzilla:
you could always show us the .mac page you're on about

[philzilla]

ahh. see what you mean. renders okay in PC Firefox, but - surprise, surprise - Internet Exploder makes a dog's dinner out of it. isn't it wonderful how a Microsoft application mangles code which was output by another Microsoft application. they are truly an amazing company.

so. is this something you're just updating every few days? once a week? how often? it would be better if you just drew up a quick table in Dreamweaver and threw the data in there manually. you'd stand a much better chance of it looking the same on every platform then.

[PianoMan]

Originally posted by philzilla:
ahh. see what you mean. renders okay in PC Firefox, but - surprise, surprise - Internet Exploder makes a dog's dinner out of it. isn't it wonderful how a Microsoft application mangles code which was output by another Microsoft application. they are truly an amazing company.

so. is this something you're just updating every few days? once a week? how often? it would be better if you just drew up a quick table in Dreamweaver and threw the data in there manually. you'd stand a much better chance of it looking the same on every platform then.

I'm updating once a week, but i have a few hidden workseheets that do work behind the scene, so that wouldn't be possible. Is there nothing i could do in excel to correct it, or am i doomed.

[philzilla]

Originally posted by PianoMan:
Is there nothing i could do in excel to correct it, or am i doomed.

1. i took the code into Dreamweaver.
2. ran Clean Up Word HTML
3. converted it to XHTML

checked it in PC/IE and it looked like it was supposed to. so, just do that every time, and you should be good to go.

[registered_user]

you could add some padding-bottom to the style sheets and that ought to fix it.

I couldn't begin to tell you why Excel outputs two style sheets, but whatever.

towards the top, you'll see the css between the <style> tags add to it:

Code:
table td { padding-bottom: 4px; }

add more padding if necessary.

If that doesn't work, go hardcore on it and do this instead:

Code:
table td {height: 1.5em;}

[registered_user]

okay, the padding-bottom doesn't work. I checked. but the height does.

[PianoMan]

thanks guys, i'll try both things