CSS Sprite Button Using Table... Can't get rid of line breaks after table in IE (quirks mode)

I am creating a css button using the following image...

This is the background of a table.. the text for the image goes inside td blocks.

You can see it in action here, please view source to see how it all works, css is in-lined.

css button link

Everything appears to be working great... but view it in IE and Firef开发者_C百科ox. You'll notice that for some reason there are line breaks in IE and not in Firefox. I want it to not have the line breaks, firefox style.

I know a lot of people will immediately say "Just add a DOCTYPE tag and all will be well!" Unfortunately my use case is such that it has to work in I.E. quirks mode.

So..with that being a restriction.. any ideas?

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Did you try to add "float:left;" to css class ".spriteTableButton" ? This can solve the problem of linebreak in no time.