[Zim]

I've looked over the IE sticky, and the IE7 code, and spent a ton of time Googling. Wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything...

it looks like IE6 doesn't support table-cell as a display type (CSS) ?

Looks great in FF, and does exactly what I wanted, but IE6 puts a newline after each one.

Thanks,
Mike

[Millennium]

From the look of things, IE6 treats display:table-cell as display:block. What is it about display:table-cell that you want to use? There may be another way to do what you want.

[Zim]

Its related to the other thread I started about preventing "newlines" after tables (to place several side by side).

I was trying to be "progressive" and switch completely to CSS for the layout, but have several bald/gray spots from the exercise (IE/FF treating things differently, colspan/formatting issues, etc). As one of the quotes I saw said "tables are dead.. long live tables"

Anyway, the closest I got on a "compromise" solution was to have a TR that would contain 1-3 FORMs on it, with the forms having display:inline, which seemed to work.

The part I could not get to work was to have a "bounding box" around each form to visually separate it.

table-cell worked exactly as hoped in FF, but then IE inserts the new lines. just using display:inline seemed to work in IE, but not for FF.

SPAN/DIV bounding boxes seemed very flawed and would often only surround the bottom half of the contained FORM.

Also considered taking the table-cell/inline part and putting those into separate css files, looks like there is a way to do a conditional CSS load based on browser type, @import (?), but haven't dug into the specifics yet of how to do that. Was hoping for a unified solution (but maybe that's not going to happen).

So first wanted to confirm that IE will not support table-cell. I was not finding as many articles via Google as I expected that would confirm it.

Mike