i just learned a new thing when coding tables in html for IE8, i faced this problem of extra white space below the row as shown in the figure below... this is how the code looks like... fixing the problem, i can't seem to find where it went wrong so i tried coding with a different structure this time... after that it looks like this... now i learned that the coding structure matters when it comes to IE8 rendering, unlike in other browsers like firefox where spaces after the image is considered as nothing, i assume IE considers this to have a space character thus creating a white space just below the row... just a cent... peace!