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1. Re: Strange I.E. CSS issue
Ken Binney-GnPIX3 Mar 9, 2010 4:27 AM (in response to Mike_Watt)Just guessin' here Mike, but I notice some empty spacing in your inline style tags in the include file
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2. Re: Strange I.E. CSS issue
Zabeth69 Mar 9, 2010 5:23 AM (in response to Ken Binney-GnPIX3)I'm looking at your page in FireFox, and I'm not even seeing your center content table.
My wild guess is that your elaborate use of tables and rowspans is confusing the browsers, and your tables are simply not rendering. A simpler explanation may be that you have a comment closing tag that is just hiding the whole thing; I didn't look for that...
Instead of using stretched images for borders, use actual borders; you may find that your structure improves. For the time being, if you eliminate those rowspans, you might be able to make it work.
Anytime a layout is confusing enough to confuse not only the creator AND the browser, it might be time to use a simpler way to achieve your look.
Regarding Ken's suggestion, I don't think the spaces are the cause of the difficulty. In this kind of code, the spaces are there for the humans, not for the computer (in my understanding...).
Beth
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3. Re: Strange I.E. CSS issue
Mike_Watt Mar 9, 2010 10:27 AM (in response to Zabeth69)I don't disagree that something is confusing the browsers, but I just don't understand why. A rowspan is a rowspan. To be honest, I'm not confused at all - except for by the fact that that it's not working across the board - when I look at that code it makes perfect sense to me. And clearly Safari/Chrome agree since they're doing it right.
That's what frustrates me - I build a page from scratch (so I know every line of code that's in there.) I validate the page and get no errors back of any kind... then two of the biggest browsers just screw it all up.
Thanks for your help, though... that FF issue is a whole new set of problems... clearly I need to go back.
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4. Re: Strange I.E. CSS issue
eoinie Mar 9, 2010 10:38 AM (in response to Mike_Watt)hi
I'm having a similar problem to Mikes at the moment. Again it works fine on all browsers on Mac and PC except for IE on PC. Here's the page which was created on a Mac using DW.
http://www.scoiltrad.ie/Pages/aidancoffeymenu.htm
I would really appreciate any assistance with this
Thanks in advance
EOR
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5. Re: Strange I.E. CSS issue
Zabeth69 Mar 9, 2010 10:40 AM (in response to Mike_Watt)You may not be confused, but I found the code a challenge to follow.
I still think that some of your strategies could be simplified, but I know what you mean about knowing one's own code so thoroughly!
Glad to be able to lend some fresh eyes to the situation.
Beth
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6. Re: Strange I.E. CSS issue
Zabeth69 Mar 9, 2010 10:57 AM (in response to eoinie)It would be helpful if you started a new thread and gave it a more descriptive title.
"Strange I.E. CSS issue" surely does not tell all of the story for your page not working on IE, Eoinie!
What specifically is it that you see on IE/PC that is incorrect?
Beth
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7. Re: Strange I.E. CSS issue
Ken Binney-GnPIX3 Mar 9, 2010 4:24 PM (in response to eoinie)You have a table tag in the head section of your page
<table width="600" border="0" align="center">
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8. Re: Strange I.E. CSS issue
Mike_Watt Mar 9, 2010 6:16 PM (in response to eoinie)[Deleted]
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9. Re: Strange I.E. CSS issue
Mike_Watt Mar 9, 2010 6:15 PM (in response to Zabeth69)The content table not appearing is a whole other issue, and I'm dealing with that now... But the footer CSS is still persistent. I've completely removed all the code for that middle table, and IE still does not render the footer with the proper CSS, and FF still refuses to display anything below the nav bar.
Here is the code as of this second... I must be missing some tag somewhere or something, but I can't find it, and the validator doesn't find it either. Does anyone see anything here that would cause FF to not display anything below the comment <!-- CLOSE HEADER/LEADER/NAV TABLE--> and what is causing IE to display the footer without the CSS?
http://www.melsbgc.com/docs/code2.txt
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10. Re: Strange I.E. CSS issue
Mike_Watt Mar 9, 2010 6:29 PM (in response to Zabeth69)Sorry for the multiple posts, people:
I found that when looking that the source in FF, everything from the comment
<!-- CLOSE HEADER/LEADER/NAV TABLE ---> Down to the comment<!-- CLOSE MAIN CONSTRAINING TABLE --->is green, which means that FF is treating it all as a comment. So, the only thing I could think was thatthe three "---" at the end was throwing it off, so I changed it to two "--" and now FF displays the content.
One problem down.
Now, the CSS. I'm getting a little desperate.




