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| <p style="font-weight: bold">Tables I, II, III, IV (cellpadding=0 cellspacing=5)</p> |
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| <tr><td valign=top> |
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| <table border cellpadding=0 cellspacing=5 bgcolor=ffffff> |
| <caption><nobr>Table I</nobr></caption> |
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| <td>1,1</td><td>1,2</td><td>1,3</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>2,1</td><td>2,2</td><td bgcolor=ffff66>2,3</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>3,1</td><td>3,2</td><td bgcolor=ffff66>3,3</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>4,1</td><td>4,2</td><td bgcolor=ffff66>4,3</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>5,1</td><td>5,2</td><td>5,3</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
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| </td><td valign=top> |
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| <table border cellpadding=0 cellspacing=5 bgcolor=ffffff> |
| <caption><nobr>Table II</nobr></caption> |
| <tr> |
| <td>1,1</td><td>1,2</td><td>1,3</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>2,1</td><td rowspan=2>2,2</td><td bgcolor=ffff66>2,3</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan=2>3,1</td> <td bgcolor=ffff66>3,3</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>4,2</td><td bgcolor=ffff66>4,3</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>5,1</td><td>5,2</td><td>5,3</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
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| </td><td valign=top> |
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| <caption><nobr>Table III</nobr></caption> |
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| <td>1,1</td><td>1,2</td><td>1,3</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>2,1</td><td rowspan=2>2,2</td><td bgcolor=ffff66></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan=2>3,1</td> <td bgcolor=ffff66></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>4,2</td><td bgcolor=ffff66></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>5,1</td><td>5,2</td><td>5,3</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
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| </td><td valign=top> |
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| <caption><nobr>Table IV</nobr></caption> |
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| <td>1,1</td><td>1,2</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>2,1</td><td rowspan=2>2,2</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan=2>3,1</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>4,2</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>5,1</td><td>5,2</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
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| </td></tr></table> |
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| <p align="center"><b>This demonstrates a problem with "overlapping |
| rowspan cells" (look at Table IV).</b></p> |
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| <p><b>Table I:</b> a regular 5x3 table</p> |
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| <p><b>Table II:</b> introduces rowspan=2 for cells (2,2) and (3,1), |
| which 'overlap'.</p> |
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| <p><b>Table III:</b> is Table II, but cells (2,3),(3,3) and (4,3) now |
| have 'empty' contents; the resulting table is still OK. Note that the |
| height of (2,3) and (4,3) is determined by cells (2,1) and (4,2) |
| respectively, whereas (3,3) has ~0 height since no 'effective' cell in |
| the row has any definite height requirement (except for border, |
| margin, padding if applicable).</p> |
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| <p><b>Table IV:</b> is Table III, but column 3 has been removed (cells |
| (1,3),(2,3),(3,3),(4,3),(5,3)). This should mirror the first two |
| columns of Table III (but currently does not). </p> |
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| <p>Note that cells (2,2) and (3,1) are still in the correct position, |
| with the same size as Table III, but that their cellspacing with (5,1) |
| and (4,2) is absent.</p> |
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| <p>Tested with Apr25, M4 and 1999051109 (win95, opt.) Dated: May 11 1999</p> |
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