jmirick - 2:53 pm on Jan 29, 2001 (gmt 0)

gmiller,
The cols tag came around with netscape 3.0.... I dont believe IE supports this.

You can find netscape's documentation of it at...
[developer.netscape.com...]

It is a pretty hairy definition that they give. And from reading it I realize that I wasnt using the attribute as intended... (it is for indicating the number of *equal* width columns that should fit in the window)... I used it just to tell the browser how many columns there were (mine were not equal width).

Anyway... this doesnt matter what matters is that adding the attribute did knock 40 or so seconds off my rendering time.... so if you ever find yourself in a netscape bind this obscure attribute could help. It is very good advise to minimize the levels of tables when dealing with netscape I have learned.

This site has been a lesson in what to NOT do with netscape and tables.... we are hitting a db and bringing back a large table of results. this table is embedded within several tables that were layout related. Each level of table addes quite a bit to the rendering time I have learned (the hard way).

Unfortunately, I do not have time to change over to style sheets. A few tweeks (and lowering the number of records returned pre page) has got us closer to acceptable rendering times in netscape.

-john