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Asked: 2026-05-16T22:06:52+00:00

I am trying to fix a horrid nested table layout for a site. The

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I am trying to fix a horrid nested table layout for a site. The page will have a variable number of elements that leverage Google charts. Instead of complex spaghetti code that tries to lay things out inside of table cells I want to use a horizontal UL so the content blocks will lay out cleanly regardless of the charts involved. The problem I am having is the Google charts components leverage tables. When a table element exists anywhere inside a LI the LI gets moved to the next line (assuming because table elements by default have a newline before and after).

I have tried the various display modes for the table with no luck. Is this a lost cause?

Example HTML code to illustrate the issue:

<html>
<body>
<style type='text/css'>
 #navlist li{
    display:inline;
    list-style-type:none;

    }
</style>
    <ul id='navlist'>
        <li>TEST</li>
        <li>TEST2</li>
        <li>
            <table style='border:1px solid black'><tr><td>TEST</td></tr></table>
        </li>
        <li>TEST3</li>
        <li>
            <table style='border:1px solid blue'><tr><td>TEST</td></tr></table>
        </li>
        <li>
            <table style='border:1px solid green'><tr><td>TEST</td></tr></table>
        </li>
    </ul>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Set display: inline-block; on your LI elements; that should do it nicely. It doesn’t really work in Firefox 2, but nobody uses Firefox 2 anymore. You’ll need to specify a doctype to get it to work in IE.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <style type='text/css'>
      #navlist li {
        display: inline-block;
        zoom: 1;
        *display: inline;
        list-style-type: none;
        vertical-align: middle;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <ul id='navlist'>
      <li>TEST</li>
      <li>TEST2</li>
      <li>
        <table style='border:1px solid black'><tr><td>TEST</td></tr></table>
      </li>
      <li>TEST3</li>
      <li>
        <table style='border:1px solid blue'><tr><td>TEST</td></tr></table>
      </li>
      <li>
        <table style='border:1px solid green'><tr><td>TEST</td></tr></table>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </body>
</html>
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