jaklitsch maya wrote: >I have a problem with ie6. The page is displayed >correctly in ff. > >So do I need to use a hack to remove this extra right >side space? > Hi Maya, I was thinking about:
body { width: 100%; } div#container { height: auto; margin: .25em auto 3em auto; } to make things easier for IE to handle (also in the top-margin IE is displaying strange white things. >It was suggested that I validate the page and that >then the page would display correctly in ie. > >I managed to remove most of the error but am stuck >with several errors that absolutly will not go away. >The extra space still shows up in ie6 > > Yes, it seems not enough to add a conditional comment for IE with #content {margin-right: 3px;} But: Ha! Some good commenting out (first the whole "content": everything was o.k. in IE; then piece by piece "commenting in"), and I've found the culprit. It must be in the lines 438 to 445: commenting out these lines is good for IE! And further on: it must be in the blockquote. Indeed, the one starting with "Alas!" ... ;-) That's him! But why? Looking at the page I saw it is italic text. /Italic/? And *IE*? O! Perhaps ... A piece of PIE: Italic and IE bugs <http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/italicbug-ie.html> And the good news: inserting the fix is working. :-) [ Oops, waiting to long to send; I see George was first! ] >The result of the validation - > >Error Line 785 column 24: document type does not allow >element "p" here; assuming missing "dd" start-tag. > <p class="leftspace">a. in our personal >friendships?</p> > >a. the dd start-tag is NOT missing > > I see the 3 <p>'s in line 785, 786 and 787 in the middle of a definition list, in which the items have to be <dt> or <dd> [1]. But the <p>'s aren't inside a <dt> nor in a <dd>. >Error Line 790 column 9: document type does not allow >element "dd" here; assuming missing "dl" start-tag. > <dd>How are our Meetings enriching the lives of >our children through inter > >b. the dl start-tag is NOT missing > > This one will be connected to the one before: it is the first line after the 3 <p>'s which aren't inside the <dl> starting at line 779. So the validator is assuming the <dd> of line 790 is the first item in a fresh definition list, and then a <dl> is missing. - If the 3 <p>'s are repaired, I guess this error will disappear. >Error Line 1717 column 5: end tag for "dd" omitted, >but OMITTAG NO was specified. ></div> >You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps >you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending >it with "/>" instead of ">". > >c. again no tag is missing or not closed > >Error Line 1717 column 5: end tag for "dl" omitted, >but OMITTAG NO was specified. ></div> > >d. no dl tags were used here, so how can they be >omitted. There is only a ul list nothing else. > > Also they are related. Apparently the html-validator can remark the "missing things" only at the end of the document (and "missing start tag" = "missing end tag" too!) Compare html-Tidy, which gives only line 785 as a missing <dd>. Greetings, francky >The url is >http://www.quakercapecod.org/new/keynote2004.html > >I would welcome any help so I can resolve this issue. >I know it is not css, but am totally clueless and I do >not want to move from strict to transitional where >this problem probably would not make my life >miserable. > >Thank you for any help you can give me, > >MJ > [1] w3c about def.lists <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/lists.html#h-10.3> ______________________________________________________________________ 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/