Sometimes small images not displaying in IE

[ShawnR]

Hi

I have a 9x9 table, with the middle cell containing content, and the outer 8 cells containing small gifs (say 5x7) tiled either horizontally or vertically, to form a border. Works find for all browsers except IE. Works fine most the time on IE too. Just occationally some of the images don't display. When they don't, hitting refresh brings them back.

I see the same behaviour whether the images are specified as css backgound-image: or html <image> tags.

Anyone seen this before? Can anyone suggest a solution?

Thanks
Shawn

[msr986]

There is no fix or solution.

This is a known problem in IE6. :(

[ShawnR]

Thanks. Do you know what the specifics of the known problem is? i.e. Does it only affect small pics or any pics? (If so, what is the min size required to be safe?)

[msr986]

This problem does have to do with images below a certain size. I've seem some discussion about minimum displayable size, but nothing definitive. Whatever the actual cutoff is, it seems to be pretty small.

[ShawnR]

Thanks. Made the tiled image larger (approx 600x5 instead of 5x5) so it tiles less or not at all. Seems to solve it. I still have a problem with the bottom right cnr, because NN 4 doesn't seem to support align right, so I can't do a long image for that corner & I was hoping not to have to do column spans...