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[scarfman]

Per suggestion in a comment on my last entry, I upgraded my Firefox. Here I am at the posting page and no troubles yet. Thanks.

But this version of Firefox seems to read HTML and/or CSS differently. In this version, of the code I've been using in my weekly cartoon posts to create colored background fields (Which was also a suggestion from a reader. Thanks again.), a <td> at the top and a </td> at the bottom are printed to the screen instead of, you know, being treated as code. This post is an example. I don't know whether that means I need to change the code from now on, or leave it alone in case my readers are using browsers that read the other way.

Also this version of Firefox does that naggy proofreading red-underline thing that I turn off when MSWord does it. It's underlined MSWord ferpetessake. Anyone know how to turn it off in Firefox? Thanks.

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[xwingace]

It does it in my browser too (which is also the newest version of Firefox). To be honest, though, if you hadn't drawn my attention to it, I doubt I would have noticed.

XWA

[abates.livejournal.com]

The <td> are not an artifact of the version of Firefox. It's a change LJ made to stop people posting improperly formed tables and messing up people's LJ layouts.

You have to enclose the <td> in <tr> tags, like so:
<table><tr><td>*content*</td></tr></table>

[scarfman]

Oh. Okay, thanks. I'll do that from now on, but I don't think I'll go back and edit those hundred and twenty or so existing entries.

[abates.livejournal.com]

No problem! (and I don't blame you. That would take a while. :)

[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

May I ask why you use table tags?

I think a DIV or SPAN tag would suffice.

Unless it's for properly placing the images themselves.

[scarfman]

May I ask why you use table tags?

I guess because when you told me, "Use < DIV STYLE="background-color: black" > < /DIV >," you didn't specify instead of table tags rather than in addition to table tags; and at the time I knew nothing about CSS. Since then I have had a course that covered CSS, but not till I'd already formed the habit of cutting-and-pasting the weekly cartoon code I'd initially constructed from your coaching*. Also, everything in that course was done in Dreamweaver so there wasn't a lot of learning to actually code.

This Friday I'll try leaving the table tags out, and see what happens.

* Master of unintentional alliteration!

[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. I was just wondering. It's just the effiency expert in me, I guess.

Rgds,
Dv

[axonite.livejournal.com]

You can disable the proofreading under the "advanced" tab on tools->options. Uncheck "check my spelling as I type."

[scarfman]

Thanks!