Ugly table cell layout in IE if the cell is empty

[Jacopo Cappellato]

Hi all,

I've noticed that the empty table cells generated by form widget lists
looks ugly in Internet Explorer: no borders, completely white. Adding a
  in them fixes the issue (but of course it is just an hack).

Is there some magic CSS trick that we can use to fix this?

Jacopo

[Adrian Crum]

I had mentioned this some time ago. In fact, there is a note in the maincss.css file about it. As
far as I know, putting the   in the cell is the only fix.


Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've noticed that the empty table cells generated by form widget lists
> looks ugly in Internet Explorer: no borders, completely white. Adding a
>   in them fixes the issue (but of course it is just an hack).
>
> Is there some magic CSS trick that we can use to fix this?
>
> Jacopo
>

[BJ Freeman]

MS uses a lot of  
Not a hack it is the way they do it.

Jacopo Cappellato sent the following on 10/18/2007 9:01 AM:

> Hi all,
>
> I've noticed that the empty table cells generated by form widget lists
> looks ugly in Internet Explorer: no borders, completely white. Adding a
>   in them fixes the issue (but of course it is just an hack).
>
> Is there some magic CSS trick that we can use to fix this?
>
> Jacopo
>
>

[jonwimp]

I don't think there are CSS tricks to do this. The common solution is to use a   . Been doing
that since i could remember, so much that I was actually surprised when I first came upon Firefox.
Surprised that it didn't need a   .

Jonathon

Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've noticed that the empty table cells generated by form widget lists
> looks ugly in Internet Explorer: no borders, completely white. Adding a
>   in them fixes the issue (but of course it is just an hack).
>
> Is there some magic CSS trick that we can use to fix this?
>
> Jacopo
>
>

[Jacopo Cappellato]

Thanks to all for the feedback; rev. 586446 should fix this:

"Applied patch from Marco Risaliti to fill empty table cells with the
  character: this wfixes the ugly layout in IE."

Jacopo

Jonathon -- Improov wrote:

> I don't think there are CSS tricks to do this. The common solution is to
> use a   . Been doing that since i could remember, so much that I
> was actually surprised when I first came upon Firefox. Surprised that it
> didn't need a   .
>
> Jonathon
>
> Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've noticed that the empty table cells generated by form widget lists
>> looks ugly in Internet Explorer: no borders, completely white. Adding
>> a   in them fixes the issue (but of course it is just an hack).
>>
>> Is there some magic CSS trick that we can use to fix this?
>>
>> Jacopo
>>
>>

Hi to all,

I have found another little issue related to fill empty table cells with the   character in HtmlFormRenderer.java and the attached patch can solve it.
I have done some search on google and I found that the property empty-cells:show in a html td tag is not supported by Internet Explorer 5-6 (probably no more in IE7 but I have not it to possibility to test it) also if it's recommended by W3C and used by all the others browser.
So the only solution that I found is to replace the empty cells in a td with   character, for the moment I have done it only with ScreenWidget probably is it possible that is also inside some .ftl.

These are the links to the sites that spoke on this topic:

www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML/emptycells.html
www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html
fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/discuss/table-backgrounds/tests/layers-show.html
www.htmlref.com/reference/appb/css_empty-cells.htm


I have created the new JIRA issue OFBIZ-1355 for this patch.

Thanks in advance
Marco

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Il giorno 19/ott/07, alle ore 15:48, Jacopo Cappellato ha scritto:

Thanks to all for the feedback; rev. 586446 should fix this:

"Applied patch from Marco Risaliti to fill empty table cells with the   character: this wfixes the ugly layout in IE."

Jacopo

Jonathon -- Improov wrote:
I don't think there are CSS tricks to do this. The common solution is to use a   . Been doing that since i could remember, so much that I was actually surprised when I first came upon Firefox. Surprised that it didn't need a   .
Jonathon
Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
Hi all,

I've noticed that the empty table cells generated by form widget lists looks ugly in Internet Explorer: no borders, completely white. Adding a   in them fixes the issue (but of course it is just an hack).

Is there some magic CSS trick that we can use to fix this?

Jacopo