Gunlaug - Thanks so much for your help! Also, thakns for being patient with me. I'm really new to this. I just used the standard doctype that dreamweaver spits out. I had no idea that it was wrong or could possibly make a difference.
The only curious thing is that (and maybe I just did something stupid), I went to copy and paste the code as you gave it to me and save it here so I could compare it against mine. The only problem is that now, the background color on the navigation div won't show up. (the green area) When I changed the color, it shows up, but only behind the text links. How do I get it to show up in the entire Div? Also - when I hit F12 to preview it in dreamweaver, I see the sidebar graphic... but right now I don't. Strange. I copied the code and pasted it in so I don't know why it wouldn't work now. you can see it here: http://www.decisiveelement.com/clients/mothermartin/home/index03.htm Thanks so much :) [css-d] Browser incompatibilities. Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 31 18:46:11 CDT 2006 * Previous message: [css-d] Browser incompatibilities. * Next message: [css-d] dynamic classes * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Melissa Carraway wrote: > http://www.decisiveelement.com/clients/mothermartin/home/index02.htm You're telling every browser on earth to run in 'quirks mode', and that is partly why you're getting these variations. A proper doctype that'll trigger 'standard mode'[1] would be a good start, but it won't make it look good across browser-land since there are so many design-flaws in there. However, you won't get far if you keep on triggering 'quirks mode', so you better make the "switch". 'Quirks mode' also means that all your non-valid colors / background-colors are rendered, but they won't render in 'standard mode' so there's a lot to correct. Too much to explain on list, so (to save time) I made the most needed corrections and put it in a file so you can check it up yourself. Fix the 'pngfix' for IE/win that I didn't bother about, and you've got a cross-browser compatible layout... <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/mc/test_5360.html> It triggers 'standard mode' in all the latest browsers. You'll see that I have deleted all but one 'position: relative' and related declarations, as there's no use for them in that layout. > This layout only has one, and if someone can tell me how to better > place the logo element without absolute positioning, I'd be thrilled. > No problem to float and move it into place, but there's no need to change that part. Absolute positioning is fine for "fix-sized elements in a fix-sized environment", and nothing moves there. No use floating *and* absolute position it though, as absolute positioned elements can't float. I do miss the use of some proper headline-elements, and I did not correct that. I did add some alt-attributes, but you'll have to decide what to put in them. regards Georg [1]http://gutfeldt.ch/matthias/articles/doctypeswitch/table.html -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
