table in table

[crj]

if i put a table inside another table, will the inside table show up before everything is done loading?

 

[lucifer]

depends on your browser IE tends to render tables earlier than NS

generally you have to wait for everything in the table to load before it can be displayed.

with images if you use <IMG height=xx width=yy ... > then the browser does not have to load them to see how much room they take up so it can do the table and then fill in the pics as it loads them.

as said in another thread if you can break your tables into more than one then that can speed up the appearance of your page.

table in table would need both loaded to know how to render them.

 

[meow]

It doesn't matter much. It isn't the table in itself that takes time loading. It totally depends on the content. You won't notice the difference between:

<table><tr><td>
50K of text</td></tr></table>

and:

<table><tr><td>
30K of text
<table><tr><td>
20K of text
</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

At least I don't.