DIV Issues

Kruegera

12-27-2009, 05:18 AM

I'm not really all that proficient in CSS - I took a few classes on HTML, but that's about it. Most of my knowledge of CSS is second-hand, copied off of other sites and gleaned from tutorials. So you may not be surprised to know that I have no idea why the current layout for the site I'm working on for my father is working just fine in firefox, but will not display correctly in Internet Explorer. My whole reason for using CSS was entirely on the basis that IE wouldn't pull this crap with <div> tags like it did with tables.

Though as much as I'd like to blame IE, I'm pretty sure I just coded it wrong. ><

http://antleritis.com/

<html>
<head>
<title>
ANTLERITIS
</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="part1"><img src="http://www.antleritis.com/images/antleritis_piece1.png"></div>
<div id="part2" style="background-image: url(http://www.antleritis.com/images/antleritis_piece2.png);" ></div>
<div id="part3"><img src="http://www.antleritis.com/images/antleritis_piece3.png"></div>
<div id="button1"><img src="http://www.antleritis.com/images/antleritis_button1.png"></div>
<div id="button2"><img src="http://www.antleritis.com/images/antleritis_button2.png"></div>
<div id="button3"><img src="http://www.antleritis.com/images/antleritis_button3.png"></div>
<div id="button4"><img src="http://www.antleritis.com/images/antleritis_button4.png"></div>
<div id="button5"><img src="http://www.antleritis.com/images/antleritis_button5.png"></div>
<div id="button6"><img src="http://www.antleritis.com/images/antleritis_button6.png"></div>
<div id="part4" style="background-image: url(http://www.antleritis.com/images/antleritis_piece4.png);"></div>
<div id="part5"><img src="http://www.antleritis.com/images/antleritis_piece5.png"></div>
</body>
</html>

SB65

12-27-2009, 11:13 AM

First thing you need is to include a doctype at the very top of your html. Without this IE will revert to "quirks mode (http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html)".

Try adding the following to the very top - before the html tag:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

coothead

12-27-2009, 03:15 PM

Hi there Kruegera,

and a warm welcome to these forums. ;)
I'm not really all that proficient in CSS...
Perhaps this example will help your understanding a little...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>

<base href="http://www.antleritis.com/">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="language" content="english">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">

<title>ANTLERITIS</title>

<style type="text/css">
html,body {
height:100%;
padding:0;
margin:0;
font-family:arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:1em;
}
img {
display:block;
border:0;
}
#container {
height:100%;
background-color:#fda;
background-image:url(images/antleritis_piece4.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
overflow:auto;
}
#header {
position:relative;
z-index:1;
height:124px;
background-image:url(images/antleritis_piece2.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
background-position:200px 0;
}
#navigation {
position:relative;
z-index:1;
float:left;
width:200px;
}
#navigation ul {
padding:0;
margin:0;
list-style-type:none;
}
#navigation li {
float:left;
display:block;
}
#content {
padding:26px;
margin-left:200px;
}
#piece5 {
position:absolute;
z-index:0;
bottom:0;
left:0;
}
</style>



</head>
<body>

<div id="container">

<div id="header"><img src="images/antleritis_piece1.png" alt=""></div>

<div id="navigation">

<img src="images/antleritis_piece3.png" alt="">

<ul>
<li><a href="main.html"><img src="images/antleritis_button1.png" alt="MAIN"></a></li>
<li><a href="shedbed.html"><img src="images/antleritis_button2.png" alt="SHED BED"></a></li>
<li><a href="apparal.html"><img src="images/antleritis_button3.png" alt="APPARAL"></a></li>
<li><a href="shedphotos.html"><img src="images/antleritis_button4.png" alt="SHED PHOTOS"></a></li>
<li><a href="contactus.html"><img src="images/antleritis_button5.png" alt="CONTACT US"></a></li>
<li><a href="aboutus.html"><img src="images/antleritis_button6.png" alt="ABOUT US"></a></li>
</ul>

</div>

<div id="content">
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras volutpat, purus ac
pellentesque adipiscing, mauris ligula convallis metus, vitae scelerisque nibh
orci quis mi. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes,
nascetur ridiculus mus. Curabitur porttitor aliquam libero. Quisque molestie ornare
sem. Nam euismod sem lacinia ipsum. In pharetra metus ut dolor cursus aliquam.
Maecenas eu ante quis enim tincidunt laoreet. Pellentesque varius nunc in ipsum
pulvinar sollicitudin. Nunc et mi. Donec auctor dignissim orci. Aliquam sed magna.
Pellentesque in dui. In eget elit. Praesent eu lorem.
</p><p>
Cras cursus varius pede. Cras dolor lorem, convallis sed, venenatis ac, aliquam vitae,
orci. Duis diam massa, adipiscing quis, aliquam eget, ornare eu, lectus. Sed rutrum
augue non purus. Integer vel mauris. Nam suscipit molestie lectus. Fusce laoreet
interdum eros. Pellentesque sit amet enim id nunc adipiscing ultricies. Quisque
lobortis eleifend elit. Sed eu augue sed felis vulputate iaculis. Cras lorem felis,
lobortis id, accumsan vel, facilisis quis, dolor. Curabitur aliquet. Nulla facilisi.
Proin nunc velit, posuere sit amet, porttitor et, volutpat a, massa. Maecenas elementum
volutpat justo. Pellentesque magna neque, dictum id, rhoncus a, fringilla et, nulla.
Phasellus placerat gravida purus. Pellentesque odio. Sed volutpat vehicula nulla. Quisque
metus urna, semper eget, aliquam ac, feugiat nec, massa.
</p>
</div>

<img id="piece5" src="images/antleritis_piece5.png" alt="">

</div>

</body>
</html>

coothead

Kruegera

12-27-2009, 08:12 PM

Thank you! I've been stumped with this for a week!

Now I just have to look it all over and figure out what you changed. This might require some unlearning. ><

Nice use of lorem ipsum. =P

coothead

12-27-2009, 08:33 PM

No problem, you're very welcome. ;)