Recently I tried to upgrade from IE5.0 (comes along win2000) to IE5.5 and suddenly saw that some things go wrong on my site now.
I am using gif image and for shadowing of table.
I used small gif image and length in % not in pixels. Then this image was strethched out by browser and become as long al this table continues. The image itself just 10x10 pixels. And I am stretching like this 10x~1000...2000 (depends on table length)
Under all browser looks Ok, fills up whole length of table, but under IE5.5 doesn't stretch and I see just image itself.

Most interesting thing is on gorisontal directions everything is OK, but on vertical doesn't work.

The same on my job's PC: NT4.0 SP5 + IE5.5
when returning back to IE5.0 is everything ok.
So it is something with IE5.5....
I don't want to set the dimensions explicitly in pixels, just in percents.
Do somebody meet this problem?

On the top you see the banner area and you smooth transition from blue to white.
it is done by <img border="0" src="../images/verh1.gif" width="700" height="10">
I am saying explicitly that width 700 pixel.

Now I am want to make vertical smooth transition on all tables from white to blue (left side) and from blue to white (right)
where for this long blue vertical area where search button, webzip banner, xdrive banner and so on placed and so on

I do it like this:

<img
src="../images/horiz_lev.gif" width="9" height="100%" alt="horiz_lev.gif (842 bytes)">

height is not in pixels but in %

and result: I don't see thiss smoothing in IE5.5 and see it in IE5.0

I don't see at all this image (9x8) but it is in this folder "image"

I have no idea.....

You could try using the image as a background image for the table cell but I think that also doesn't work in Netscape.

[This message has been edited by jnestor (edited 10-11-2000).]