Table Formatting using passthru HTML

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For a while now I have been using computed text to generate passthru HTML which is to be rendered in the Notes client, and controlling appearance and layout with CSS. As long as you know where the limitations are it works fine, and is great for generating, for example, dynamic (read-only) tables.

BUT

Code that worked great in 6.5 does not work in 8.5. Specifically, table cell widths are no longer respected. When CSS didn’t work I tried setting the width using HTML: “<td width=5…” Nope. That didn’t work either.

Can anybody help?

I hope there is a checkbox somewhere that I am missing, rather than this already rudimentary feature being further degraded.

I suspect that there is a great deal more to the problem than I have barked my shins on so far, but for now I am just concerned with table cell widths. All suggestions gratefully received.

If I have not been clear, just say and I will provide more detail.

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Subject: Works for me

I just tried it using and it rendered the same in Notes 7.0.1 and Notes 8.5.1. Perhaps you need to explicitly state the units.

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Subject: CSS?

How about using CSS?And does the correspondence between versions change if you set

(Sorry, I didn’t mention that bit)

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Subject: Did you ever resolve this?

I’m finding the same thing here… Notes 7.03 clients, no problems with importing HTML that includes tables… 8.5.1, the column widths appear to be ignored.