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smoked_out_haze · Oct 26th, 2005, 3:30 PM

I was wondering if someone could take a look at my code and please tell me what I'm doing so wrong. I'm building this site for my html class (its supposed to be a portfolio type site). I built it at home while checking my firefox browser to see if everything was working. I got it to work perfectly in Firefox, but I got to school today and the site looks completely broken (in IE6). So I came home and checked in Netscape (it works fine) and Opera(it looks broken).
Anyone have any suggestions?
http://webdesign2.georgianc.on.ca/~1...sF05/homepage/

bja888 · Oct 26th, 2005, 5:54 PM

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height="100%"

there is your proublem.
You can no longer use percent heights in html. Everything gets totally fu**ed up. What IE is tring to do is space all the rows evenly.
I think I solved this proublem onece before but haveing troubles remembering right now. Its went something like this though....

Step 1
- Create a table. 1 row, 1 cell.
- set the height to 100%
- Align to top

Step 2
- Palce your existing table with in the new table.

Step 3
- Wait for me to remember exactly what I did to get around this proublem previously.

zorin · Oct 26th, 2005, 5:58 PM

Was going to check your site, wont load in IE but looks fine in firefox

smoked_out_haze · Oct 26th, 2005, 7:48 PM

really? you cant use percents.. that sucks. But its not really the height thats causing a problem.. it seems like its the width. or is it the same issue with percentages?

tempest · Oct 26th, 2005, 7:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bja888

Step 1
- Create a table. 1 row, 1 cell.
- set the height to 100%
- Align to top

Step 2
- Palce your existing table with in the new table.

Step 3
- Wait for me to remember exactly what I did to get around this proublem previously.

Tables are bad... i thought you knew xHTML. Use DIVs.

Lich · Oct 26th, 2005, 8:53 PM

FYI, kill the <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
at the top and the 100% height should work fine.

If you don't give a crap about CSS or web standards design, which is apparent (not a knock or anything), this should be a quick solution.

bja888 · Oct 26th, 2005, 9:57 PM

I love tables! sadly they losse their effect in xhtml. Which is the #1 reason why I am haveing trouble switching over.

The solution can only be solved with a table inside a table... I'll remember, just wait.

Percentages in widths are acceptable but not perfect.

I said it onece and i'll say it again. The W3 is trying to make pages static. They hate aparently dynamic.

stevengs · Oct 27th, 2005, 4:28 AM

tables are not bad... if you use them correctly. Inherently, a table is for, well .. just that, a table. You want to show moon phases and dates in a table, fine because that's what it's for. You want to show all the county soccer tournaments for the season, great, use a table. You want to use a table to design your site layout.... uuuuhm... no.

coldDeath · Oct 27th, 2005, 4:51 AM

Yeah, good point. I forgot about actually using them for their proper purpose.

EDIT: you have 1 more post than me

Oct 26th, 2005, 5:54 PM	#2
bja888 Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Central, FL Posts: 213 Rep Power: 0	(Toggle Plain Text) height="100%" height="100%" there is your proublem. You can no longer use percent heights in html. Everything gets totally fu**ed up. What IE is tring to do is space all the rows evenly. I think I solved this proublem onece before but haveing troubles remembering right now. Its went something like this though.... Step 1 - Create a table. 1 row, 1 cell. - set the height to 100% - Align to top Step 2 - Palce your existing table with in the new table. Step 3 - Wait for me to remember exactly what I did to get around this proublem previously.

Oct 26th, 2005, 8:53 PM	#6
Lich Professional Programmer Join Date: May 2005 Location: Detroit Posts: 254 Rep Power: 4	FYI, kill the <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> at the top and the 100% height should work fine. If you don't give a crap about CSS or web standards design, which is apparent (not a knock or anything), this should be a quick solution. __________________ --John Cruz Web Developer www.cruzweb.net

Oct 27th, 2005, 4:28 AM	#8
stevengs Professional Programmer Join Date: May 2005 Location: Bad Nauheim, Germany Posts: 436 Rep Power: 4	tables are not bad... if you use them correctly. Inherently, a table is for, well .. just that, a table. You want to show moon phases and dates in a table, fine because that's what it's for. You want to show all the county soccer tournaments for the season, great, use a table. You want to use a table to design your site layout.... uuuuhm... no. __________________ -Steven "Is this a piece of your brain?" - Basil Fawlty

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coldDeath Expert Programmer Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: UK Posts: 862 Rep Power: 4	Yeah, good point. I forgot about actually using them for their proper purpose. EDIT: you have 1 more post than me __________________ Programming Tutorials - Linux Installation Guide - Learn Python - Learn C++ Got Slack? Join us at #programmingforums @ irc.freenode.net! My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

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Oct 26th, 2005, 3:30 PM	#1
smoked_out_haze Newbie Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Barrie, Canada Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Site works in Firefox but not IE I was wondering if someone could take a look at my code and please tell me what I'm doing so wrong. I'm building this site for my html class (its supposed to be a portfolio type site). I built it at home while checking my firefox browser to see if everything was working. I got it to work perfectly in Firefox, but I got to school today and the site looks completely broken (in IE6). So I came home and checked in Netscape (it works fine) and Opera(it looks broken). Anyone have any suggestions? http://webdesign2.georgianc.on.ca/~1...sF05/homepage/

Oct 26th, 2005, 5:58 PM	#3
zorin Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 218 Rep Power: 4	Was going to check your site, wont load in IE but looks fine in firefox

Oct 26th, 2005, 7:48 PM	#4
smoked_out_haze Newbie Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Barrie, Canada Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	really? you cant use percents.. that sucks. But its not really the height thats causing a problem.. it seems like its the width. or is it the same issue with percentages?

Oct 26th, 2005, 9:57 PM	#7
bja888 Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Central, FL Posts: 213 Rep Power: 0	I love tables! sadly they losse their effect in xhtml. Which is the #1 reason why I am haveing trouble switching over. The solution can only be solved with a table inside a table... I'll remember, just wait. Percentages in widths are acceptable but not perfect. I said it onece and i'll say it again. The W3 is trying to make pages static. They hate aparently dynamic.

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