Loosing text on right hand side when using Italic's

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AJHarvey

I'm working on a site which has themed pages and works fine with standard
text. When I change the text to italics, the right hand side dissapears of
the page when diplayed in IE. However, if I then change this back to standard
text, the problem doesn't dissapear - the only way is to re-do the whole
page! This will probably be a really annoyingly simple fix, but any help much
appreciated as I have few walls left to bang my head against!
 
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Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

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| I'm working on a site which has themed pages and works fine with standard
| text. When I change the text to italics, the right hand side dissapears of
| the page when diplayed in IE. However, if I then change this back to
standard
| text, the problem doesn't dissapear - the only way is to re-do the whole
| page! This will probably be a really annoyingly simple fix, but any help
much
| appreciated as I have few walls left to bang my head against!
 
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chris

I think this has to do with mixed table cell parameters though why
switching to italics creates the problem beats me. I do know that making
a small table correction seems to fix it.

The table containing your navigation and text consists of 3 columns. The
first cell holding your navigation is set at a width of 1%. The adjacent
column to it's right is set for 24px and the last column is of undefined
width. The parameters for the first and second cell are at odds- one
defined in %, the other in px which may be confusing IE.

There are several ways to fix it. Set a px dimension for the first cell
instead of %. I'd suggest something at least as wide as the image within
that column (156px). Or set the second column as a % and insert a spacer
of 24 px to hold the space. It is that second column that seems to
disapear in IE when italics are used in the left cell of undefined width.

OT- many of your file names contain spaces. That should be corrected ASAP

AJHarvey wrote:
 
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Ronx

This table construct is the result of using shared borders, the user has no
control over this table structure other than changing from shared borders
to some other layout, example DWT (in FP2003) or include pages.

The table has worked in every version of every browser from IE4 to IE7,
Netscape 3 to Netscape 8, and all versions of Mozilla and FireFox, though
only IE actually displays the 24px column.

I do not see any problem with the page
http://www.zyen.com/Press/Now_and_ZYen/2005-11.htm, except some rendering
differences in FireFox - the second horizontal red line in the Header is a
dot, and links in the left border are underlined.
 
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chris

Thanks for the explanation re shared borders but from what I see here I
have to disagree about that particular table construct working in every
version of every IE browser. It might be more correct to say every
version you have tested. That mid column definitely does not display as
24 px wide for me. Even with an added table border, that column
disappears in IE for me so that the text in the third column directly
abuts the first column on the page with italics. It is not pretty.
 
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