# IE explorer problems with tables

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ie-explorer-problems-with-tables/146264
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 29, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ie-explorer-problems-with-tables/146264 "2005-04-29T14:20:01Z")
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### Author: ![dale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@dale](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dale)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ie-explorer-problems-with-tables/146264/1 "2005-04-29T14:20:01Z")

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i’ve done a preview version of a blog that i’m working on and it’s viewing perfectly in FF but when i put it in IE it makes the cells spread. (ps none of the links are up - i’ve only done this one page so far)

click [here](http://www.geocities.com/napierjl/blog_latest.htm) to see what i mean.

i know the problem lies in this properties of the archive section:

```auto

<tr height="*">

```

i want the actual blog area to go for as long as it needs therefore i need a variable height of the “archive” area.

can anyone help?

thanks,

-dale

once again - apologies about geocities.