[ic] Rendering problems with IE that do not occur with Netscape

[Barry Treahy, Jr.]

Hi folks,

I have spent hours trying to determine why a set of IC pages work great 
with NS but choke with IE.  I have reduced it to this basic HTML result 
and after staring at it, my eye's must be glazing over because I cannot 
see what it would also not work in IE.  I have stripped everything that 
is unnecessary for the test and replaced almost everything with basic 
'text' place holders.

Long story short, in Column 2 which is the area_content section, if the 
three <IMG> tags are removed, leaving the text, both IE and NS behave 
the same, in particular, the bottom of column 2 with the Redhat IC and 
Thawte logo as well as the breakbar, appear.  The moment the three IMG 
tags are in place, NS renders it properly, but IE will not display 
anything in column 2 after this immediate area_content table.

Thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated...

Barry

<!-- BEGIN COMPONENT area_content -->
    <table align="left" class="maincontent" width="100%" cellpadding="0" 
cellspacing="0" borders="0">
      <tr>
        <td>
          <table align="left" class="maincontent" cellpadding="10" 
cellspacing="0" borders="0">
            <tr>
              <td align="center" width="100" class="maincontent">
<img src="/mmb2c/images/TLS_thumb.jpg" border="0">
This is column 2, subcolumn 1
              </td>
              <td align="center" width="100" class="maincontent">
<img src="/mmb2c/images/TLS_thumb.jpg" border="0">
This is column 2, subcolumn 2
              </td>
              <td align="center" width="100" class="maincontent">
<img src="/mmb2c/images/TLS_thumb.jpg" border="0">
This is column 2, subcolumn 3
              </td>
            </TR>
          </TABLE>
        </TD>
      </TR>
    </TABLE><br>
<!-- END COMPONENT area_content -->
<!-- END LEFTRIGHT_TOP -->
<!-- BEGIN CONTENT -->
<!-- content section empty, database drive from Component 4 -->
<!-- END CONTENT -->
<!-- MV Page: index -->
<!-- BEGIN COMPONENT cross -->
    <table width="95%" align="center">
      <tr>
        <td class="categorybar">
          &nbsp;<b>Best sellers...</b>
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>
          <table border="0" width="100%">
          </table>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
<!-- END COMPONENT cross -->
<br>
<table width="100%" align="left">
  <tr><td align="left">
    <img src="/mmb2c/images/foundation/horzbar.gif" align="left" 
width="450" height="1">
  </td></tr>
  <tr><td align="left">
    <a href="http://www.redhat.com/ecommerce"><img 
src="/mmb2c/images/foundation/poweredby.gif" border="0"></a>
    &nbsp;&nbsp;<img src="/mmb2c/images/foundation/thawte.gif" border="0">
  </td></tr>
  </table>
  </td>
  <td width="1" valign="top"> <!-- Column 3 -->
    <img src="/mmb2c/images/foundation/vertbar.gif" width="1" height="450">
  </td>
  <td width="15%" valign="top" align="right" class="maincontent"> <!-- 
Column 4 -->
    This is column 4
<!-- END COMPONENT random -->
  </td>

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Barry Treahy, Jr  *  Midwest Microwave  *  Vice President & CIO 

E-mail: Treahy@mmaz.com * Phone: 480/314-1320 * FAX: 480/661-7028