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Old 02-16-2011, 06:00 PM   PM User | #1
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Safari not responding to floats? (possibly?) Weird alignment.

Hey guys, i've recently published my portfolio sight, and it seemed to be all working correctly in different browsers, until i noticed an image misaligned in Safari. The header and main content of all the pages (other than index.html) are in the same div, and i have tried to just add <br/>'s to get the alignment of the main content to line up the left sidebar. You can check it out here: www.benstewartdesign.com . It should work fine on Firefox but if you open it in Safari you will notice the main content of the div appears as though it is already 5 lines below the header, which means it not floating to the right side of the header. Here is my code of my "contact" page (which is the simplest example of the main content sitting lower than it should, again only in Safari have i noticed this) and CSS sheet:

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Ben Stewart Design • Contact</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.png" type="image/png" />
<link href="PortfolioCSS.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body bgcolor="#000000">

<div id="feedBar">
Follow Me!
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/BStewartDesign_" target="_blank"><img src="images/twitterLogo.png" width="40" height="41" border="0" id="twitterLogo" /></a>
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bestewar/" target="_blank"><img src="images/flickrLogo.png" width="60" height="17" border="0" id="flickrLogo" /></a>
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://benstewartdesign.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="images/blogspotLogo.png" width="43" height="43" border="0" /></a>
</div>

<div id="leftBar">
	<a href="about.html"><img src="images/aboutButton.png" name="aboutButton" width="91" height="24" border="0" id="button" /></a>
	<a href="design.html"><img src="images/designButton.png" name="designButton" width="91" height="24" border="0" id="button" /></a>
    <a href="feed.html"><img src="images/feedButton.png" name="feedButton" width="91" height="24" border="0" id="button"/></a>
	<img src="images/contactButton.png" name="contactButton" width="91" height="24" border="0" id="button"/>
    <img src="images/contactDivider.png" name="dividerLine" id="dividerLine" />
</div>

<div id="mainContain">

	<div id="homeButton">
    	<a href="index.html"><img src="images/homeButton.png" width="318" height="75" border="0" /></a>
    </div>
    
    <br />
    <br />
    <br />
    <br />
    <br />
    <br />
	   
<div id="contactInfo">
  <p><a href="mailto:ben@benstewartdesign.com"><img src="images/mailIcon.png" border="0" id="contactIcon"/></a> <a href="mailto:ben@benstewartdesign.com">ben@benstewartdesign.com</a> </p>
  <p><img src="images/phoneIcon.png" id="contactIcon" /> 906-360-4048 </p>
  </div>
 
</div> <!-- end mainContain-->
  
	<div id="bottom">
    	<img src="images/BottomLeftLogo.png"  width="916" height="650" id="bottomLeftLogo" />
	</div>

</body>
</html>
CSS SHEET:

Code:
a:link {
	color: #FF0;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
	color: #FF0;
}
a:hover {
	color: #FFF;
}
#mainContain {
	width: 700px;
	position: relative;
	z-index: 3;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-left: auto;
	height: auto;
}
#homeButton {
	float: left;
}
#kearnedLogo {
	position: relative;
	top: 103px;
}
#homeText  {
	float: left;
	margin-right: 15px;
	margin-top: 12.5px;
}
#mainText {
	font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #FFF;
	text-align: justify;
	font-size: 12px;
}
#flickrWidget {
	margin-right: 10px;
	margin-left: -9px;
	float: left;
}
#twitterWidget {
	float: left;
	margin-top: 22px;
}
#designMainPic {
	border: 2px solid #FF0;
	margin-top: 20px;
	padding: 2px;
}
#designMain {
	font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #FFF;
	font-size: 12px;
	top: -20px;
	position: relative;
}
#designDivider {
	margin-top: 20px;
	z-index: 2;
}
#contactIcon {
	position: inherit;
	padding-right: 35px;
	clear: both;
}
#contactInfo {
	font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	color: #FF0;
	text-align: left;
	font-weight: lighter;
}
#leftBar {
	z-index: 4;
	top: 130px;
	width: 120px;
	clear: both;
	position: absolute;
	height: 220px;
	left: 0px;
	background-image: url(images/leftbarBG.png);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: left top;
}
#button {
	padding-top: 13px;
	padding-left: 20px;
	padding-bottom: 12px;
}
#dividerLine {
	position: absolute;
	top: 3px;
	width: 16px;
	height: 197px;
	left: 3px;
}
#feedBar {
	position: absolute;
	right: 10px;
	top: 5px;
	text-align: center;
	color: #FF0;
	font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	width: 60px;
	z-index: 3;
}
#bottom {
	z-index: 0;
}
#bottomLeftLogo {
	position: absolute;
	left: 0px;
	bottom: -60px;
	overflow: hidden;
	clear: both;
	z-index: 0;
}
#DesignbottomLeftLogo {
	position: absolute;
	bottom: -1550px;
	overflow: hidden;
	clear: both;
	z-index: 0;
}

If you guys have any idea it would be great, i've been getting a lot of compatbility problems between Safari and Firefox, mostly dealing with Safari not recognizing relative placements and floats.
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And now it appears that i give it 20 minutes or so after uploading it recognizes all of my spacing and alignment and looks correct.....is this something you can come to expect with web design? I'm fairly new, only have a few sites actually published, but I'm still trying to learn as much as possible.
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Hello benstewartdesig,
Using line breaks for spacing out your layout is not exactly the most dependable method. It also adds markup for no reason other than styling the layout and that job belongs to the CSS.

Try giving your #mainText a top margin that will move it down the same distance as your #leftBar instead.

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And now it appears that i give it 20 minutes or so after uploading it recognizes all of my spacing and alignment and looks correct.....
Just refresh the browser, that will force it to load the upadated code instead of showing you the cached version.
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