Topic awaiting preservation: positioning in opera and netscape

My complete lack of javascript knowledge aside I jump in and use scripts now and then and sometimes I live to regret it =)

page in question is here.

As you can see I'm using youngpup's slider menus and they're behaving perfectly in IE6 but the positioning is off in NS Mozilla and Opera and I've run through it with my dim js eyes and can't understand why.

My first thought was that the positioning information was written by a browser sniffing script so you could feed the right coords to the right browser. But there's no mention of this on the site, in fact he says it's good in these browsers, so I'm assuming I've done something wrong.

Easy on me, I'm a js (among other things) tard...

Jason

I think the problem might rather be your CSS / table code than the JavaScript actually.

In Mozilla, there's about 20px less space below the input boxes than in IE, and while the sliding menus appear in the same position in both browsers it looks wrong in Mozilla because the rest of the page if off there.

Hope you'll be able to fix that as tables tend to cause weird things at times

kuckus

Yup, kuckus is right.

Their all working as they should but you have an extra 20-30 pixels of black space under the user/pass section in IW compared to both mozaill and opera. If you can get the layout pixel perfect cross browser you shouldn't have that problem anymore.

The other option would be to set the values of where the menu's appear based on the position of the menu images on the page, but that might be a little tricky.

good golly, I did an indepth analysis at one time on the way that different browser treated different form elements, I even published a reference somewhere, and I didn't even think of that.

you think I will remember this lesson this time? or will it take a third?

Jason

Really... I'd love to see that reference if you've still got it.... I've always had issues with form elements.

Can't find it man, must have been on an old ISP space. Might have it on a CD around here somewhere but no way I'm looking in that mess for it, emergencies only =D

Jason

[edit] by the way, I set margin and padding to 0px on the class for the form and inputs and that took care of it, thanks you 2

[This message has been edited by JKMabry (edited 06-16-2003).]