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    copied!<p>When all is said and done the short answer is...because IE can be very retarted. That said here is a work around:</p> <p>First you issue simplified is this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"&gt; &lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;table width="1000" border="1"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width="250" style="background-color:blue;"&gt;a1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="background-color:green;" &gt;a&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td colspan="2" style="background-color:red;"&gt; &lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width="1000"&gt;c2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>Notice your 2nd td in your 1st row has no width specified. If you know what the width should be then you can work around this issue like so:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"&gt; &lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;table width="1000" border="1"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width="250" style="background-color:blue;"&gt;a1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="750" style="background-color:green;" &gt;a&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td colspan="2" style="background-color:red;"&gt; &lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width="1000"&gt;c2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>I do agree with what others have said, that css is the way to go, but that was not your question. Hopefully this helps.</p>
 

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