Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble getting a table to display right in Mozilla, though it works in IE. Basically, the first row should contain 2 cols, one that is 75% the width of the table, the other 25%. The next row contains 1 col, and the following 2 rows contain 2 cols, each 50% of the table. My problem is that the first row is not 75/25, closer to 60/40. The last 2 rows are pretty close, but depending on what ends up in them, they shift a few pixels to the left or right. You'll notice that I didn't use % for my widths in the code below, when that didn't work I tried using pixels but that didn't work either. Any help would be appreciated.

  <table border="1" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="660px" cols="4">
    <tr>
      <td align="left" class="paragraphfont" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" colspan="3" width="495"><strong class="style2"><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="link2">Please enter the 7-digit number</span></font></strong></td>
      <td class="paragraphfont" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><input name="number" type="text" id="number" size="28" /></td>
    </tr>   
    <tr>
      <td align="center" valign="top" class="style2" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" colspan="4"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2" align="left" class="paragraphfont" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" width="330">
          <? echo"$msg1";?><br />
      </td>
      <td colspan="2" align="left" class="paragraphfont" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" width="330">
          <? echo"$msg2";?><br />
      </td>					
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2" align="left" class="paragraphfont" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" width="330">
          <? echo"$msg3";?><br />
        </span>
      </td>
      <td colspan="2" align="left" class="paragraphfont" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" width="330">
          <? echo"$msg4";?><br />
      </td>					
    </tr>		
  </table>

Actually it's IE bad behaviour in trying to "fix" incorrect or confusing markup that is sending you down the wrong track and making you think it's right.

You should not set a column span AND an explicit width on a cell, the width will be calculated from the table and the column count. So remove the width setting and allow the columns to "float" equally in the table.

This is what I would do:

<table border="1" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="660px" cols="4">
    <tr>
      <td align="left" class="paragraphfont" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" colspan="3"><strong class="style2"><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="link2">Please enter the 7-digit number</span></font></strong></td>
      <td class="paragraphfont" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><input name="number" type="text" id="number" size="28" /></td>
    </tr>   
    <tr>
      <td align="center" valign="top" class="style2" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" colspan="4"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td align="left" class="paragraphfont" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" colspan="2">
          <? echo"$msg1";?><br />
      </td>
      <td align="left" class="paragraphfont" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" colspan="2">
          <? echo"$msg2";?><br />
      </td>					
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td align="left" class="paragraphfont" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" colspan="2">
          <? echo"$msg3";?><br />
        </span>
      </td>
      <td align="left" class="paragraphfont" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" colspan="2">
          <? echo"$msg4";?><br />
      </td>					
    </tr>		
  </table>

I tried the code above but had the same problem. In the end

<table border="1" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="660px" cols="4" style="table-layout:fixed;">

did it for me.