Thanks for your advice Nick and Jesse. I have downloaded Firefox and have started from scratch.
The page is at www.pacifichomeloans.com.au and css at www.pacifichomeloans.com.au/styleshome.css The page is looking fine in Firefox (apart from my #maintitle not starting at the top of the page) and IE on Windows. However I did the browsercam and it isn't coming out right in IE on Mac. Most other browsers it seems fine. The XHTML and CSS validates fine. I would appreciate any help. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Gleitzman Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] site layout problems, specifically in Mac IE On 22 Oct 2004, at 12:17 AM, Craig Millman wrote: > This is my first post, I have been silently gobbling up info. > > I have designed a website for a friend www.pacifichomeloans.com.au > which > seems to look ok in IE on Windows, however not in Mac IE. > > The css is at www.pacifichomeloans.com.au/styleshome.css > > I have validated the XHTML although it has given me a warning. > However it > won't validate the css for me, because it says I need to validate the > XHTML. > I am a little confused there. > > I am new to css and I am sure I have made some mistakes however I can't > figure it out. I only have IE on my computer and have downloaded > images > from browser cam to "test on other browsers". > > After reading all messages posted on this list, I also realise if it is > working in IE Win and not in IE Mac then the css is probably wrong!! Hi Craig, and welcome. The CSS validator says 'Line 48, Column 20 - The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.' I think it's seeing the < character in your javascript at that point and reading it as the start of a tag that isn't closed - therefore the error. Try using this syntax to declare your javascript: <script type="text/javascript"><!--//--><![CDATA[//><!-- ...javascript here... //--><!]]></script> or else remove your javascript to an external file and import it with <script type='text/javascript' src='filename.js'></script> BTW - the crossfade effect that the javascript is driving doesn't work at all on Mac browsers - although the slideshow does. Caption's a little off in IE Mac - there's a line and a half of height for single line captions, so you can always see a bit of the 'and hire purchase' line below the other two captions... As far as the overall layout presentation goes, I recommend you develop to Firefox and then tweak for IE on both platforms. Your layout is broken to some extent on all Mac browsers - Firefox, Safari, IE. It's always best to develop to a compliant browser first, then add the IE tweaks/hacks. HTH Nick ___________________________ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
