Help Please

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by xTutorials, Feb 25, 2008.

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  1. #1
    I have to make a few changes to a website. I made a small script that calculates the prices of products. The script works perfect, BUT the content of the pages the script and everything else moves down and there is a huge space between the tot menu and the content. You can clearly see what I am talking about here: http://www.printpress.ro/content/view/16/52/
    Does anyone know how I can fix this?

    NOTE: This only appears in IE5 and 6. In FF and IE7 it works perfect.
     
    xTutorials, Feb 25, 2008 IP
  2. mds

    mds Active Member

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    #2
    works fine here and there is not too much space.
     
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  3. Rio38

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    #3
    I agree, it looks fine to me also.
     
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  4. xTutorials

    xTutorials Well-Known Member

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    The problem only is in IE 6 and under. All other browsers render the page corectly (at least the ones I tried)
     
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    #5
    first, your doctype is incorrect... a wrong doctype will usually make your site break in different browsers (IE).
    http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/

    wait - what? has anyone looked at the source of this page???
    there's multiple <head> and <body> tags. This code is a wreck... that may have something to do with it. I don't even get what's going on there...

    you can only have one <html>, <head> and <body> tag (2 if you count the closing tags).

    PS - in this CSS file:
    templates/simplify_black/css/template_css.css
    you have position:absolut; (you forgot the 'e' at the end)

    and in this file:
    http://www.printpress.ro/ (index.html, i'm guessing)
    you have height:20;
    you need to have a unit for CSS - height:20px;
     
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  6. xTutorials

    xTutorials Well-Known Member

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    OK! Now I only have one <head> and body tags but the problem stil isen't solved.Do you have other suggestions please?
     
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  7. dtm32236

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    #7
    much better...

    fix your doctype before you do anything. this is often the reason for broken pages.
     
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  8. xTutorials

    xTutorials Well-Known Member

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    I do have this doctype now:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

    But the problem still persists.
     
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  9. dtm32236

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    #9
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

    remove this...

    it's probably not going to fix the problem - but it's proper coding... and improper coding can very often lead to future problems (like your page breaking in an updated browser)
     
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  10. xTutorials

    xTutorials Well-Known Member

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    OK! Problem was solved. It wasn't in the way I wanted to...but it worked. I integrated the entire content part in a <div></div> and set it to position absolute. I don't like to use absolute values but I guess I did not have a choice. The person who coded the template did not test it corectly I think. Anyway the site works now.
    10x you all for your replays and special 10x to dtm32236
     
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  11. dtm32236

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    nice - no problem.

    glad it worked out...
     
    dtm32236, Feb 25, 2008 IP