Comments Form Problem

  • One of my friends emailed me that with IE the comment form on my site shows up on the bottom of the page. I don’t have this problem since I use FF and Safari, so she showed me. I *think* this is because the comment form itself is too big. I tried resizing it, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Regardless, I would assume that the form area would scale along with the page… Very confusing.

    Any ideas/help is very much appreciated. I’m beating my head against the wall.

    And it hurts.

    TIA,

    Lynn
    offthebaseline.com

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  • Well, I have to like any post wittily entitled, “What You Missed By Tinting Your Eyelashes” (no, not kidding ?? ) — so here goes.

    In your CSS file, I would look for anything that might either add margins to the comment area, and especially at anything like “float:clear”. You shouldn’t need to clear a float there. (A float specification means it floats over to the right or left [whichever you’ve specified], whereas “clear:float” means to stop the float and move to the bottom of whatever else is there). If you do have a float specification there, remove it and see what happens.

    However, what I’m concerned about is that there shouldn’t be a float there, and so I took a look at your code. Unfortunately, it’s got some errors in it, starting with closing the <body> and <html> tags and then starting them again (see the urchin_tracker thing). Before trying to fix anything else, I’d fix these, and then use the HTML Validator at W3.org (https://validator.w3.org/). For all we know, fixing these and any other coding errors may fix the whole thing. If not, at least you’ve got a cleaner slate to work with.

    And, of course, make a copy of your files before you change them. Copies are good; discoveries after the fact that you need copies when none exist are not.

    Thread Starter lynnlovestennis

    (@lynnlovestennis)

    Thanks for the help, the reply… and the compliment on the eyelash post. ;^)

    Unf, it didn’t seem to help. :^(

    I fixed up the head and body tags (thanks for noticing that… I’m a space shot sometimes) but the floats in the CSS don’t seem to be it. There’s a float:left for the left sidebar, and a float:right for the right sidebar, and a clear:both for the bottom — but that’s it.

    Other ideas?

    Thanks again :^)

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