[ale] OT: Can MS IE Really Be This Broken?

[PBoyington at polyengineering.com (Preston Boyington)]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I've attached a small bit of HTML that is a mock-up of the output of a
> utility I'm trying to write.  I'm not at all a Web developer, but I
> cribbed the HTML from one or more HTML guides I Googled.
> 
> In Mozilla and in Konqueror, the two tables display exactly as I
> intended and expected.  However, in IE, the second table
> appears to the
> RIGHT of the first table, which seems to run counter to everything I
> thought I understood about HTML table formatting.
> 
> Unfortunately, the primary audience of the HTML generated by
> my utility
> will be using IE by force (in other words, any invective I might
> generate about the use of standards-abhorrent Web browsers
> will fall on
> deaf ears).  So, does anyone have any idea how I can kluge
> this up so it
> will render in IE more or less the way it renders elsewhere?
> 
> - Jeff

try changing :
<TABLE BORDER="1" ALIGN="LEFT" CELLPADDING="0"> 

to:
<TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="0"> 

see if that helps.

Preston