This page works great in Explorer: http://www.sandilayne.com/index2.html

But in Netscape, no one can see the text. And the way I might fix this is...?

Thanks, Rob

Well even in IE the News section is not showing up.

Well I can see the text but alignment is messed up in both firefox and netscape and as Nemesis mentioned about the news in IE.

:)

I tried a few changes to the layer order in Dreamweaver. I still have no problem at all seeing it in IE (5.1), even after clearing the browser cache, etc. As for Netscape, the owner of the site just emailed me & said she now sees the "news" text, but the "news" header overlaps it. lol

Still tweaking...
:rolleyes:

You might be on the right track since now it looks the same in IE and Firefox

Does it look right in those two from where you're at?

You think netsacpe is bad now, you should have tried to design for it in the 90's.

So here is my lowdown on this problem . . .

W3C reccommends using DIV's for layout, not tables. I applaud you for trying to do this, but if you want it look the same in all browsers, use tables.


I honestly think that the w3c is out to lunch with the tables for tabular data only thing. That is the original use however, designers use them more for layout than data. so change the spec to include an attribute for tables to specify whether it's data or layout. How hard would it be to add an attribute called "type" with 2 values, "layout" and "data"? I'm not saying that div's should be dropped, but when it comes to cross browser designs, nothing beats a table. Especially when you are designing a liquid site.

I will most likely use tables more from here on out.

Thanks for checking the page out for me, guys. The entire site now looks great in Netscape & Firefox... Explorer, well... things are a bit... askew? The owner was mainly concerned with Netscape.

One last question - if I were to add a browser detect script, would that fix the IE problem?

I'm not sure what you use for an editor, but when using tables, make sure you put them in % wise. That way it will fit one persons monitor to the next by % of their resolution.

I personally like Dreamweaver, it works like a charm.
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Nice, clean layout, Steely. Using Dreamweaver 3 right now... obviously need to upgrade, if only for more current browser previewing. =)