Thanks for your response, Roger. The class you sited (.dateline) was an orphaned rule - I wrote it (incorrectly, as you pointed out) at some phase of the design and then changed; it wasn't called anywhere in the html so wasn't effecting the page; I've removed it now :). I played with the background colors but that had no effect, either. The flickering doesn't happen locally, only from the server.
My CSS doesn/t validate *because* of those rules with the forward slash (/). They're rules for IE which only IE will read. When I'm finished, I'll pull those out to another style sheet linked from a conditional comment. At any rate, since you aren't seeing the flickering, it's probably difficult to know what I'm referring to. I appreciate you taking the time to wade through the code and offer possible solutions. Bill Scheider Another try: Flickering in Firefox Bill, On Nov 7, 2005, at 5:25 PM, bill wrote: > Hi there > > I'm developing a site which can be found at > http://www.first-encounter-design.com > <http://www.first-encounter-design.com/> Haven't done any real > testing yet > but it displays well in IE6, NS7, Op and FF all on win xp. > > When the page first loads in FF, the right hand scrolling div > (#thumbnails) > flickers as if it's reloading two or three times. I can't for the life > of me > figure this out! > Code validates but haven't validated CSS yet since it's still in pretty > rough shape. That can be found at > http://www.first-encounter-design/css/main.css I'd make a point to validate the css first. Many of my problems in ff tend to go away when I've done that. In your case, many of the font declarations have a / in front which causes ff to ignore them. Also, you have this line which firefox drops. .dateline { font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; margin-top: 18px 0 5px 0; /* margin-top only gets 1 value, margin can have 4 */ } Even with all that, I didn't notice any flicker on my mac until I cleared my cache and reloaded several times. I think the issue is that the background-color on the image ( a reddish color ) shows through until the image is done loading. If that is the cause, it will be much more noticeable for people on slower connections as the image will take longer to load. You may be able to get the same look by moving the color to the image borders and moving the image border to tha a tag. hth Roger, Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
