browser issues

  • I am tweaking dark maple for a friend. I started with the one from the alexking contest. That one looked fantastic in IE on a PC. But I use macs, and in safari it was terrible (firefox not so good but better). Nothing lined up.

    I figured I messed up the css, so I got the new maple from moshu’s site. I rebuilt the site with that, being more carefulf in the css this time.

    The second try looks GREAT in safari and firefox on a mac. and Firefox on a pc I am told.

    I was so proud, BUT the guy who I am dong this for uses a pc w/ IE. He says it is all messed up.

    Help!

    https://www.kennedyvmachine.com

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  • OK, we posted in the same time… no offense was intended.

    As for PC IE I have to repeat and repeat again: even in IE5.5 on Win 98 works. (Those who are here for a longer time know well that I am the guy who scares everybody around here by going to their site with IE 5.5…LOL)

    Well, right now the kennedy site looks fine in FF1.0.2. In IE, it’s fine though the sidebar is pushed down the page – that’s something you need to tweak in the css, not sure what without getting into it more than I actually have time for right now (ask Lorelle – she can probably help more than I can on that). You didn’t address Opera (I have the 7.03 version), but it’s okay there too – except for some spacing issues in the sidebar (again, a css fix I would assume).

    You’re on the right track. You just have to figure out which tweaks for IE are the right ones.

    Thread Starter residualforces

    (@residualforces)

    No offense taken. I don’t use IE myself, nor Opera. I have added some links in the sidebar.php itself. That is probably it.

    Thanks again.

    Or an image that’s too wide… or some not valid code… (I was fighting with this issue the other day with another theme for someone else: tried to include an email subscription form in a sidebar, and happened exactly the same in IE – everythign went down)

    Thread Starter residualforces

    (@residualforces)

    We have an image that is too wide! I will start there.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter residualforces

    (@residualforces)

    One last thing if you could.
    I changed the bgle.gif to be blue. The sidebar color.

    How does this work then? If I take out the #bbbbbb the whole page goes black. Is this actually making the main part of the page gray (#bbbbbb) with a single row of (bgle.gif down the right side?

    #rap {
    width: 770px;
    background: #bbbbbb url(‘images/bgle.gif’) repeat-y right;
    margin: auto;
    margin-top: 20px;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    border: 1px solid #ffcc00;
    text-align: left; /* IE 5.5 hack part II */
    }

    In Gemini Classic as it were (depending on the hackage) the menu bg is set by a tiliing graphic which is set up in #rap. To change it you can change the graphic – it is only a slip of a gif – or get rid of it. If you get rid of it then you would need to set the bg color in menu whatever. But unlike Gemini the color wont tile all the way down to the footer. From that you should see that ediing the bg in #rap in the CSS wont do it.

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