On 22/05/2009, at 5:30 AM, David Laakso wrote:
> This line above the doctype puts IE/6 > in quirksmode.
> <!-- HEADER INCLUDE Goes here -->
Okay, that does change things dramatically. Obviously, I need to
learn more about quirksmode. It now acts more like IE 7 in dropping
the content of the left-hand panel, and aligning the content to the
left. It appears I've been making adjustments to the IE style sheet
to suit quirksmode, because it now works better using the
> If it is deleted and the width of this selector is reduced, you may
> avoid the float drop:
> #left-panel { border: 1px solid fuchsia;
> float: left;
> width: /*16%*/15%;
> padding-top: 10px;
> padding-left: 2%;
> padding-right: 2%;
> }
Okay, I've made a couple of other adjustments now to the other floats
and they all sit together better (along the lines of the main style
sheet), so the above adjustment wasn't necessary. I've now got to try
and solve the right alignment problem.
> It is difficult to bring your page up at all in the IE browsers
> because of the js errors.
Yes, I only became aware of this later for something but it seemed to
point to the javascript in the menu (produced by Web Assist's CSS
Menu Writer). But I have another page (http://www.webanz.com/
webanz_new/int-tmpl-3col-3.php ) which for some reason, while it was
affected by eliminating quirksmode, didn't show the same changes as
did the index page. Also, the javascript error doesn't show up on
this page, so I'm thinking that the javascript error has something to
do with the image rollover sequence on the home page (produced by
Dreamweaver 8, as I don't know javascript well enough). I'm sure I've
seen that this sort of thing can be done using CSS, so I'll look into
that.
> It would probably be a good idea to validate the markup, too.
> <http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%
> 2Fwww.webanz.com%2Fwebanz_new%2Findex3.php>
That's weird! I did this before posting my question! I validated both
the html and the css and all validated fine!
Okay, I've just realised my mistake. I gave you an incorrect url!
Nevertheless, the issues are the same and it is the same style sheet.
The correct URL is:
http://www.webanz.com/webanz_new/index4.php
...which validates fine: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%
2Fwww.webanz.com%2Fwebanz_new%2Findex4.php&charset=%28detect
+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&verbose=1&user-
agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.654
My apologies!
> I think your chances of getting that site functional in IE/5 is
> slim to none.
Are you meaning, the structure of the site won't suit IE/5, or that
IE/5 is beyond working with?
Thanks for your efforts to help!
Regards,
David
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