On 2008-04-29, Davo <wave_877@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> CSS 2.1 17.5.2.2 is the relevant section of the spec. Although the
>> automatic table layout algorithm is not "normative", I can't see any
>> logical reason for IE7 to be giving you the behaviour you report. Report
>> it to Microsoft as a bug.
>
> Thanks Ben, not the answer I was hoping for though :-). I've been playing
> some more and if I change the doctype to
>
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> then it works, over here http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/ it describes the
> doctypes and this shouldn't make a difference, or is this another quirks
> mode?
I don't know what you've run into here. Perhaps this is a quirk after
all, but it sounds from the description more like a new bug in IE7.
But I may easily be confused about exactly what you're seeing here.