[WSG] IE 6 bugs
I have a site http://www.agilecreditreport.com whose homepage displays correctly in IE 7, Firefox and Opera and displays incorrectly in IE 6. So this is one of those famed IE 6 bugs that is hopefully going away soon. Two issue sidebar shows up on top and not on the side and some of the fields have a yellow background (less important issue) Any ideas would be appreciated. Thank -- Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] IE 6 bugs
So this is one of those famed IE 6 bugs that is hopefully going away soon. Two issue sidebar shows up on top and not on the side and some of the fields have a yellow background (less important issue) Without looking in detail, when a column drops in IE6 there are normally 2 common reasons. 1. The most common cause is setting a margin on one of the floated columns that triggers a double margin float bug. In your case this does not seem to be the issue. 2. The next common cause is to do with content that is too wide for the parent container. You have two columns (#colLeft or #colRight) inside a parent container (#container). There is a possibility that some element inside one of the two columns (#colLeft or #colRight) is wider than the column itself. In most browsers this will not be an issue. The width of the columns (#colLeft or #colRight) will be honoured -regardless of the width of content inside. However, IE6 will honour the width of content inside the columns (#colLeft or #colRight) rather than the width assigned to the columns. This means that the column may appear wider in IE than other browsers. This has a spill-over effect... If the two columns (#colLeft or #colRight) have defined widths (240px and 530px), and they sit inside a parent (#container) that also has a defined width (770px) then the two columns may not fit if IE has determined that one of these two columns is wider. So, IE6 will allow the second column (#colRight) to drop below the first column (#colLeft). You can quickly test this by commenting out the content inside the columns (I'd start with content inside #colRight where all the action is) and see if the layout suddenly works again. If this happens, you will know the culprit and can deal with it - by assigning a specific width or using one of the more nasty work-arounds: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/column-collapse/ The yellow background in form elements may be a case of Mystical Yellow Form Fields http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/archives/17.php HTH Russ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] IE 6 bugs
Looking at my site putting with widths up in Firefox it doesn't look like its too wide. However I did just add padding so I'm wondering if thats the issue. Thanks for letting me know where to look at least. I'll be offline for Passover till sunday but will let you know how it turns out. Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 russ - maxdesign wrote: So this is one of those famed IE 6 bugs that is hopefully going away soon. Two issue sidebar shows up on top and not on the side and some of the fields have a yellow background (less important issue) Without looking in detail, when a column drops in IE6 there are normally 2 common reasons. 1. The most common cause is setting a margin on one of the floated columns that triggers a double margin float bug. In your case this does not seem to be the issue. 2. The next common cause is to do with content that is too wide for the parent container. You have two columns (#colLeft or #colRight) inside a parent container (#container). There is a possibility that some element inside one of the two columns (#colLeft or #colRight) is wider than the column itself. In most browsers this will not be an issue. The width of the columns (#colLeft or #colRight) will be honoured -regardless of the width of content inside. However, IE6 will honour the width of content inside the columns (#colLeft or #colRight) rather than the width assigned to the columns. This means that the column may appear wider in IE than other browsers. This has a spill-over effect... If the two columns (#colLeft or #colRight) have defined widths (240px and 530px), and they sit inside a parent (#container) that also has a defined width (770px) then the two columns may not fit if IE has determined that one of these two columns is wider. So, IE6 will allow the second column (#colRight) to drop below the first column (#colLeft). You can quickly test this by commenting out the content inside the columns (I'd start with content inside #colRight where all the action is) and see if the layout suddenly works again. If this happens, you will know the culprit and can deal with it - by assigning a specific width or using one of the more nasty work-arounds: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/column-collapse/ The yellow background in form elements may be a case of Mystical Yellow Form Fields http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/archives/17.php HTH Russ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
