Hi Mike
www.mwg.green.net.au/testpagesSaturday
Have just re-loaded my preferred version with the wider background image on the left. The entire issue was caused by not having the full doctype on all but one of the pages. There is still a difference in the rendering between IE/Opera and Firefox/Mozilla in that IE puts the textbox in the middle of the sidebar and Firefox puts it a bit more to the left. Either is acceptable so will not worry about it anymore.
Thanks so much for bringing up the topic of doctypes!
Michael Allan wrote:
Hi again Lyn,
My apologies - you're right, it was the contact page which was missing the url in the doctype declaration, not the meeting page. A slip of the pen, which I hope you won't hold against me given that I was posting before 7:00am on a Sunday morning :-)
The pages will look the same in IE if they reference the same stylesheet *and* are being rendered in the same mode (hence the importance of the url being in or out). I suspect Opera is mimicking this behaviour for compatibility reasons. The link I gave you explains it well and it's a public document (no. 15 in a Google search for "html doctype"), you just weren't able to access it because somewhere along the line it's had a space introduced into it. Take that out and you won't have any problems.
All the best, Mike
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