I'm having a very weird problem that manifests itself only in IE - both 6.x and 7.x
I use taconite to retrieve a table from the server: <taconite> <replaceContent select="#data"> <table style="width: 90%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top"> </td> <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top"> <strong>Board</strong> </td> <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top" colspan="2"> <strong>1 ADL</strong> </td> <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top" colspan="2"> <strong>1 ADL + 1 CHLD 7-12</strong> </td> <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top" colspan="2"> <strong>1 ADL + 2 CHLD 7-12</strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top"> Standart Room </td> <td style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top"> BB </td> <td align="center" style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top">125</td> <td align="center" style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top"><strong>166</strong></td> <td align="center" style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top">140</td> <td align="center" style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top"><strong>185</strong></td> <td align="center" style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top">158</td> <td align="center" style="border: 1px solid #efefef; padding: 10px;" valign="top"><strong>249</strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </replaceContent> </taconite> When this taconite gets executed IE disregards the colspans and places a single cell in each column: Expected: ------ | | ------ | | | ------ Explorer: ------ | | ------ | | | ------ And I have no freaking idea why this is happening. Please, help :)