CSS / layout problems in IE 6

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

I just tested my page http://www.jonathanmortimer.co.uk/

on my neighbours' PC running Windows XP Home with IE 6 (SP2), it was over to the left, whereas on my Mac and SGI it's properly centralised. Is this purely just an IE problem? Anyone here running IE 6/7, could you give it a whirl please and tell me where things are? Thanks.

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject:

If you're interested, I'm running XP pro / Opera v8.51, and everything is contered, whereas on IE6 on the same PC has everything on the left.

I think IE is to blame for so many things.

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

NetHosted Customer Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 287

is it IE doing it right and others making assumptions? Just playing devil's advocate without seeing the stylesheet

align="center" in the <table section corrects it for IE.

Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 12:43 pm Post subject:

Centered on Firefox but left on IE. It is likely that it is IE messing things up as Opera and Firefox are closer to standards compliant than IE. My own site shows differently in Firefox and IE with a workaround which bugs me.

Ian

EDIT:

Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject:

I have also noticed that you set the width attribute for the "Logo" box but not for the other two boxes. This may be part of the problem on IE with the logo box being furthest left.

Ian

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 4:21 pm Post subject:

I checked your site and it validates as CSS and HTML. I think those standards are important and it should mean that you get fewer glitches. IE will always have the odd workaround but as IE7 comes along, using the standards should help.

Ian

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

I checked it all over and made a few changes - anyone with IE 5/6 on Windows care to see if it's now centralised and correct?

NetHosted Customer Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 287

it originally wasn't centred in IE7 either

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

NetHosted Customer Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 287

maybe Firefox/Camino makes assumptions that IE doesn't?

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:50 am Post subject:

All seems to work perfectly in IE6, Firefox and Opera!

Ian

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

Thanks everyone!

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