[css-d] Need help with IE float bug (I think)
Hello, I'm new to the list and looking for help with a problem I'm having with my site in Internet Explorer. http://www.patiastephens.com/ I built this version of my site a year or so ago as my first experiment in learning CSS. I found it very difficult but loved the results. Recently I worked up the courage to change a few things -- colors, header sizes, etc. I must've broken something in either the style sheet or template, because the site has stopped displaying properly in IE. It looks fine in Firefox Win/Mac and Safari. I think it's a float bug, but I have been struggling with it for a few days and can't figure out where I'm going wrong. Can anyone help me out? Thank you. Patia __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Need help with IE float bug (I think)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm new to the list and looking for help with a problem I'm having
with my site in Internet Explorer.
Welcome to the list.
http://www.patiastephens.com/
I think it's a float bug, but I have been struggling with it for a
few days and can't figure out where I'm going wrong.
No float bug. It is one of those /easy-to-make/ 'code bugs':-)
IE/win is unable to recover from this...
h2{ font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
/* - start quote and no end quote - just delete */
...so all following styles are ignored.
The CSS validator does pick up that 'code bug' - as a 'Parse Error'...
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.patiastephens.com%2Fusermedium=all
...so you could have saved some debugging time.
Comment: that HTML 4.01 source-code has too many errors, according to
the validator...
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.patiastephens.com%2F
You should try to clean it up a bit.
regards
Georg
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http://www.gunlaug.no
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Re: [css-d] Need help with IE float bug (I think)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I DID attempt to check the style sheet yesterday with Dreamweaver's validator, and it found parsing errors with other bits of code that did not seem to have anything wrong with them. Is the w3 validator more accurate? The W3C validators are definitely more accurate - although not flawless. You're not designing _for_ DW -- only _in_ it, so forget _its_ errors. I'm sorry, I know my code is a mess and needs cleaning up. I'm just a bit intimidated about where to start. Any advice welcome. If you can set up HTMLTidy so it actually works, then it will make wonders cleaning up your source-code. Think Tidy has only really missed 1 error - regarding Microsoft's downlevel 'conditional comment' (which is *not* valid) - for the 3 years I have used it. However, Tidy is most often made useless by default when incorporated in HTML-editors, so you'll have to set it up yourself, for your use and choice of DocType. Also, and *very* important: HTMLTidy can *not* correct what it doesn't understand, and it can *not* make badly designed layouts work. Usually not a problem. Some online versions and sources... http://valet.htmlhelp.com/tidy/ http://infohound.net/tidy/ http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ ...and my own comments on Tidy (and editors)... http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_07.html ...that maybe aren't so relevant since I write manually in accordance with XHTML DocTypes. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
