[IPython-User] Notebook display of nested HTML tables?

[Gardner Pomper]

I have some objects that I would like to display in the notebook using
the _repr_html_() method. I use this frequently (I am on 0.13) and it
has worked fine for simple tables. My latest effort is a table, of
which each cell is a table. Sample html is shown:

<table border="1">
   <tr>
      <td valign="top">
          <table border="1">
              <tr>
                  <th>Column 1</th>
              </tr>
               <tr>
                   <td>label 1</td><td>value 1</td>
               </tr>
           </table>
       </td>
       <td valign="top">
           <table border="1">
               <tr>
                   <th>Column 2</th>
                </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td>label 2</td><td>value 2</td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td>label 2</td><td>value 2</td>
                 </tr>
             </table>
         </td>
        </tr>
   </table>

If I save this html in a file and load it into the browser, it works
ok. But if I do it in IPython, the child tables seem to be aligned in
the middle vertically, and have a whole bunch of whitespace around
them.

I am using IPython 0.13 on red hat linux. I have done now special
setup for any kind of configuration files. I have even tried setting a
CSS style using IPython.core.display Javascript with no effect.

Why is IPython rendering my nested html tables funny, but my simple tables fine?

- Gardner