Hi again,
OK, no one had an aha moment, so I did manage to get the server opened
up and I'm going to try again. I'm including below this message the stuff
that I sent out before, just in case anyone wants to look at it.
Here's the problem again: part of my footer is riding up the page
*occasionally*, seemingly without rhyme or reason (The oops_bar image
linked below is a mock-up of what happens). One page that we've seen it
happen on for sure is: http://zeta-www.kenyon.edu/x11593.xml , and there's
some suspicion that it only happens on long pages. I've only seen it
happen in IE 6, but because it's so intermittent, I'm not certain that it
doesn't happen in other browsers as well.
It had been suggested that the bar might have been landing at the bottom of
the viewport rather than the bottom of the page where it belongs (thanks cj
:) ), but I haven't spotted anything that seems to indicate that. The
beige bar and the purple bar are both within a div that clears the floated
columns above -- is it possible for a child of a clearing div to escape
if it's not also set to clear?
You'll notice that the content doesn't fully validate -- this is due to
unclosed img and br tags that the CMS produces and that I haven't figured
out how to get around. The design itself should validate, and pages that
don't have content images or breaks should validate (minus some truly
obnoxious xmlns attributes that I'm still trying to get rid of). If anyone
has seen unclosed br and img tags do funny things to a design I want to
hear about it, though!
Here's the index page to that site if you want to surf around and see if
you can get it to happen on any other pages:
http://zeta-www.kenyon.edu/index.xml
The server will be open to the world until tomorrow afternoon, when we'll
be closing it up again. At this point I'm not interested in any other
crits, unless you find something *really* broken; the design is supposed to
mimic the current site's design without being tables nested 4 deep, and
it's only a stopgap due to last maybe a year before being replaced, but I
would prefer that it not be doing random acrobatics in the meantime :)
Thanks in advance,
~RM
Stuff from my original message:
Here's the fake screenshot: http://www1.kenyon.edu/examples/oops_bar.jpg
As you probably guessed, that purple bar should be at the bottom of the
window, directly beneath and snug up to the yellow bar, not floating
around in the middle.
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