Thanks to everyone who wrote in about the HTML5 problem I am having. I am going to stick with the HTML4 version for now. I appreciate the help! You guys are great.
Rory On Oct 18, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Andree Hollander wrote: > > On 2010-10-18, at 17:37, Rory Bernstein wrote: > >> I have this web page: >> http://weinraub.ehclients.com/home/ >> >> I am trying to use some CSS3 elements here. I have a div with id="nav", and >> everything is working fine. (for the nav list at top on the white background) >> >> But, when I change that div instead to a <nav> CSS3 thing, the white BG >> doesn't work. >> >> Here's that page: >> http://weinraub.ehclients.com/home/index_css3 >> >> They are both using the same style sheet: >> http://weinraub.ehclients.com/styles.css > > That's your mistake. In a style sheet #nav refers to an element with > id="nav". If you want to refer to an _element_ nav you should not use #. The > same as if you want to refer to h1 elements. Likewise there is a difference > between footer and #footer. > >> >> I had this happen on a previous project, where I used <footer></footer> and >> my style rules didn't work that way, but when I used <div id="footer"></div> >> it worked fine. What am I missing here? > > Andree Hollander > > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/