Iain Young

Hi folks, I'm having some trouble with internet explorer and was wondering if there was a way around it. Basically I'm trying to put some pre-formatted text inside a table cell...

<tr><td><pre>Text for line 1</pre></td></tr>
<tr><td><pre>Text for line 2</pre></td></tr>
<tr><td><pre>Text for line 3</pre></td></tr>
etc...

Seems simple enough, and it works fine on Netscape, but for some bizarre reason, Internet explorer seems to be putting a carriage return at the end of each </pre> and so I am getting blank lines in between the displayed text.

Any ideas how to get around this?

Thanks,
Iain

Hammy Hamster

Something like this should work...
<pre><tr><td>Text for line 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Text for line 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>Text for line 3</td></tr></pre>

Iain Young

Thanks, but it doesn't seem to. If the <pre> is outside of the table cell, then the contents don't seem to get formatted. For example....

<pre><tr><td>Hello __________ World</td></tr></pre>

(replace _ characters with spaces) gets rendered as...

Hello World

(i.e. all the spaces are omitted). Really frustrating this one...

Iain

[Edited by Iain Young - 4/15/2003 6:48:04 PM]

AdrianFRST

Just replace <pre> with <pre style="margin: 0px;">

If you're using CSS (inline or linking to an external stylesheet) then just add:

pre
{
margin: 0px;
}

In there.

[edit: spelling]

[Edited by AdrianFRST - 4/15/2003 8:15:50 PM]

Iain Young

Aha, that did the trick, (didn't think to check the margins).

Thanks for the help,
Iain