Why is IE putting tons of extra space around images in cells?

I need a PayPal button to appear in some table cells.

This is what is happening:

This is what I would expect to happen:

The only code in the cell is the <form> code generated by PayPal.

All other cells in the row are like one word so there’s nothing big or tall that is throwing off the formatting.

it’s probably because you touch yourself

It’s because you’re using tables for layout.

Man I just read a whole thing that to use tables when you need a table-type layout rather than a bunch of CSS that looks like tables.

This is just for a table in the middle of a page, btw.

Man I just read a whole thing that to use tables when you need a table-type layout rather than a bunch of CSS that looks like tables.

This is just for a table in the middle of a page, btw.

Use tables for tabular data. Not layout. Where the fuck did you read that?

geocities.yahoo.com

Here:

When CSS became standard and table-based design was made obsolete, a lot of designers shunned them all together. Using tables in your websites, no matter what they were used for, became akin to using animated GIFs in some circles.
The problem with that is that tables are a vital part of good UI design. Tables have a purpose, and unfortunately they