scriptygoddess

1 | Greg Bair

April 2nd, 2004 at 2:34 pm

I don't know if this applies to Netscape 6, or even if this is the problem you specifically had, but I remember back in the NN 4.x days, Netscape would enter a space in a table cell if the closing table data tag was on a separate line. example:

<td>
This is stuff in a cell. It will show up with no space at the end.</td>

<td>
This stuff will have a space after it.
</td>

2 | Jennifer

April 2nd, 2004 at 3:00 pm

That wasn't it – there was no extra space in the html after the TD and before the /TD tag… Basically like this:
<td><img etc. etc.></td>

3 | Stig

April 2nd, 2004 at 3:25 pm

This behavior is actually correct acording to the W3C standards. There's an article on DevEdge describing the issue very well:
http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/img-table/
I believe this is also the reason the "Almost standard" mode was introduced in later Netscape and Mozilla builds:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/doctypes.html
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/quirklist.html

4 | Jennifer

April 2nd, 2004 at 3:37 pm

Excellent! Thanks for the links for the explanations. While I still think it's crazy that it did that – at least I know WHY now! 😀

5 | Billy

April 3rd, 2004 at 12:40 am

A List Apart also had a good explanation of doctypes: Fixing Your Site With the Right Doctype

6 | Mike

April 5th, 2004 at 10:40 pm

You can alter Dreamweaver's default templates so you don't have to change the DTD every time you start a new file. In DMX 2004 the default templates are located in c:\PATH TO\Dreamweaver MX 2004\Configuration\DocumentTypes\NewDocuments. Edit "Default.html" to your liking and save.