Puttin' the Grrr in the Grrrl 2003

So how do you know you're still a web designer even though your job is supposed to be "Product Manager"?
When you spend the day debugging HTML and style issues.

Why, by all that is good in this world, would a table with 4 rows, where the top and bottom rows are dark blue and the middle two are light blue, look fine in Mozilla 1.2.1, Netscape 7 and Netscape 4.7 and then in Internet Explorer 6 have a light blue row atop the dark blue. ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!

The table is surrounded by a form, but removing the form's opening tag doesn't get rid of the problem.

The top row, dark blue, has this
bgcolor="3B6EE0" class="pageNavArea"

That style is
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background: #3B6EE0;

The table and the tr for the top row have no style calls.

Why?! WTF?!

I want danger pay.

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Puttin' the Grrr in the Grrrl

So how do you know you're still a web designer even though your job is supposed to be "Product Manager"?
When you spend the day debugging HTML and style issues.

Why, by all that is good in this world, would a table with 4 rows, where the top and bottom rows are dark blue and the middle two are light blue, look fine in Mozilla 1.2.1, Netscape 7 and Netscape 4.7 and then in Internet Explorer 6 have a light blue row atop the dark blue. ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!

The table is surrounded by a form, but removing the form's opening tag doesn't get rid of the problem.

The top row, dark blue, has this
bgcolor="3B6EE0" class="pageNavArea"

That style is
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background: #3B6EE0;

The table and the tr for the top row have no style calls.

Why?! WTF?!

I want danger pay.

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