Topic: border problem in ie

Hey,

I a bit of a problem with my border in ie 6. it appears as broken with some little blurbs of text and other junk in wrong places at the top and bottom of the div. it dissappears when I hit f11 twice or mouse over any of the menu options. I tried a few things, including the ie 6 float bug fix from the zeldman book, but it didn't seem to work (although it is possible i implemented it wrong). I am assuming it is somehow related as the f11 "fix" works.

www.membersclubataldarra.com and here is a screen shot.

any ideas? any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks as always

bill

That's a nicely coded page.

This looks like one of those obnoxious IE rendering bugs that gets fixed when it redraws the screen (such as when you hit F11 or scroll the problematic area in and out of the viewing window). There's rarely a good explanation for them.

Check and see if it happens with border types other than double. Fiddle with different ways of creating the same effect. You might be able to find a workaround of some sort, or you might find out what's triggering the problem.

If all else fails, I've found that using a script to change an arbitrary style property of an element can cause IE to redraw that element, which might fix the problem. Try adding something like

<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById('content').style.display = 'block';
</script>

After the end of the #content div. But only do that if you can't find another way to fix the problem.

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Well, this is a bit strange, it is the background image that is causing the problem. if I remove the watermark looking graphic in teh content are, the border problem disappears.

um, not sure what to do about that. guess I will plug along a bit more. the client really wanted that look, especially liked the watermark.

other funny thing is that, though the files are the same locally and online, with the reset script, I do not have the problem with the local version, just the online version.
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thanks

bill

oh, and thanks for the coding compliment. means much coming from you.


[This message has been edited by wcr one (edited 08-31-2003).]