Topic: IE graphic over-hang (Page 1 of 1)

http://www.conceited-smile.co.uk/layout/

If you look at my navigation box, In Firefox its all well aligned, yet in IE the top graphic over-laps the box, I've been playing around for days with this and can't find the error, why does it over-hang in IE other than IE sucks?

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Honestly, there is way too much going on with those tables to really dig into what might be causing the problem. There is nothing here that justifies using tables for layout - get rid of them, use proper semantic markup, and you'll probably rid yourself of the problem.

First of all there's not even an HTML or a BODY tag. How on earth do you expect your page to work properly not to mention working on various platforms ? Then as DL-44 said, tables for layout is stupid.

Any documents on making the transistion from tables to css?

without the pro-non-table-layouts fluff?

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It's just a matter of using the right tags for the right content. In über short :

• if you want to to have a header, use the H1, H2 .... H6 tags
• if you want a list of simple things ( like a list a links aka a navigation ) use the UL and LI tags
• if several blurbs of content belong to the same section, wrap them in a DIV
• ...

It's that easy.

Then for the CSS, I know I'm a coder, but I've found nothing better than the CSS 2.1 specifications ( also available in PDF ).



(Edited by poi on 02-19-2006 23:19)

Be sure to start with a good doctype declaration, too - your current one is gimpy.

http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html#DTD