Re: [WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers

Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:27:10 -0800

Hello Seona,

I haven't looked into the far-to-the-right sub menu issue yet, but I can fix your validation problem. Your DOCTYPE is incorrectly written:

Current:
<!DOCTYPE xhtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Needs to be:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
Notice the key word right after the !DOCTYPE declaration - xhtml. It needs to be html.
 
HTH,
 
Martin E.

----- Original Message -----
From: Seona Bellamy
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:48 PM
Subject: [WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers



Hi guys,

Well, after lurking on here for several weeks, I'm finally taking the plunge
and asking a question. (And getting rather alliterative in my subject
line... Sorry...)

I have a navigation bar with sub-menus based on the list structure and run
primarily by CSS. The problem I am having is making it work in both IE and
any real browser (using Mozilla for testing). If I get it to that the
submenus are correctly positioned in Mozilla, then in IE they are floating
halfway across the screen and impossible to select. If I get them correctly
positioned in IE, then in Mozilla they sit over the main navigation bar and
so are impossible to see, let alone select.

The page can be viewed at:
http://d1075184.u42.b-20.net/
The CSS can be viewed at:
http://d1075184.u42.b-20.net/clinics.css

Incidentally, I have the CSS validating just fine (which I'm quite proud of,
given how new I am to this *grin*) and I have the page itself almost
validating. According to the W3C validator, there are only 3 problems left
and I can't figure out how to fix them. If anyone wants to take the time to
have a look at that and point me in the right direction, it would be
appreciated. Funnily enough, the problems seem to be with the code
Dreamweaver put in when I asked it to make a new file that was XHTML
compliant. *shrug* Go figure.

Cheers,

Seona.
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