I just jumped into a project that was about 70% finished. The home page html5 video section and general layout of home page look perfect on Chrome and Firefox, but in Safari, giant random margins appear above and below the html5 video header. I realized that adding width:100%; and height:100%; are causing the added margins.
Please take a look and compare them on each browser.
I've tried adding display:block to the video container as well as changing margin to padding.
Many thanks in advance.
I took out width:100% and height:100% and added min-width:100% and it did the trick.
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Here is the link to the website I am talking about.
My problem is that when you navigate between the different pages in the main navigation, the main wrapper does not align on the different pages I have used. So if you are on the home page and you click on "WMH" in the main navigation bar the whole page jumps to the left by about 8px.
This creates a jitter between pages that my client really doesn't like. I used some padding-left and padding-right in css to align it correctly. Unfortunately when I get it pixel perfect in Firefox, it is wrong in Chrome and Safari. If I get it pixel perfect in chrome, it jitters in Firefox. This is very irritating. I don't want to have to write separate styles for Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari unless it really is the only solution.
Thanks for your feedback.
Archie.
The browser scrollbar looks to be causing this. You can force a scrollbar to always appear which would solve the issue. Add this to your CSS:
html {overflow-y: scroll;}
You would also probably need to remove the padding that you tried to fix the problem with originally once the above style is in your CSS.
I am pretty good with css, but can't figure out why my menu is being destroyed by IE7. Looks perfect in all other browsers I tested. First image link is correct. Second image link is how it looks in IE7.
http://www.asingularcreation.com/Forums/download/file.php?id=8368&mode=view/ie8+.jpg
http://www.asingularcreation.com/Forums/download/file.php?id=8367&mode=view/ie7.jpg
Here is the page: http://www.asingularcreation.com/calls-to-artists.php. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You do not need to float (or clear) the menu container. It looks like it is causing IE7 to calculate the width incorrectly which forces the menu to flow down, underneath the sub-menu.
<div style="height:40px; line-height:40px; float:left; clear:both"><!--Main Menu --></div>
Removing the float and clear properties fixes the display in IE7 and also still works in Chrome and IE8 and IE9.
There is a lot of inline styles in the example page so I would also look at moving the CSS into an external file if possible.
I'm a real CSS beginner, so please forgive my ignorance. I've been searching around without success regarding something which must be obvious to experienced CSS folks.
Basically the CSS below displays as expected in FF/Chrome/IE8, but not in IE6 (and who knows about other IE versions). In IE6 a friggin horizontal scrollbar keeps being displayed since some elements are overflowing the browser window. My reading seems to indicate this has something to do with padding, 100% width being a problem with IE6, or something... I've added bg colours to better visualise the problem.
I only really want the #ch/div ("head") to fill the browser window horizontally. I suppose it boils down to: why are the div's for bs_ext and cd extending beyond the right-hand browser window, causing the horizontal scrollbar to be displayed?
<head>
<style>
<!--
body{margin:0px 0px 0px 0px}
#ch,#cs{position:relative;width:100%}
#ch{margin-top:0px;height:90px;background-color:#edeff4;border-bottom:1px solid
#dddddd}
#cs{height:55px;width:1024px;border-bottom:1px solid #dddddd}
#cb{width:1024px}
#ci{float:left;width:200px;background-color:#efefef}
#cr{float:left;width:530px;background-color:#cccccc}
#cd{float:left;width:294px;background-color:#dddddd}
#bs{position:relative;float:left;top:18px;left:15px;width:185px;background-
color:#cccccc}
#bs_ext{position:relative;float:left;top:18px;left:15px;width:824px;background-
color:#dddddd}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id=ch>head</div>
<div id=cs>
<div id=bs><span>sssssss</span></div>
<div id=bs_ext><span>ppppppp</span></div>
</div>
<div id=cb>
<div id=ci>111<br>111<br>111<br></div>
<div id=cr>222<br>222<br>222<br></div>
<div id=cd>333<br>333<br>333<br></div>
</div>
</body>
I would appreciate any pointers on how to make this work in IE6.
Also, I'd like the bottom border of #cs to be 100% of the browser at all times (it's currently 1024px). But, if I use "100%", then when resizing the browser moves "ppppppp" down - I'd like it to be fixed so that resizing the browser does not change the content position.
Thank you so much for any pointers/assistance
I would not try to make my website compatible with IE6.
IE6 is over 10 years old, you should use your time checking your code with newer browsers.
If you insist to make it IE6 compliant, you should look into using different stylesheets for different browsers.
Check this link out: http://www.thesitewizard.com/css/excludecss.shtml
Short answer:
bs_ext is 824px wide, so any browser (not just IE6) will display a scrollbar if browser size goes below that
cd is positioned 200+530px from the left and is 294px wide, meaning it extends to 1024px which is too wide (any browser uses about 16 pixels of the window's width to be used for a vertical scrollbar)
Also:
Go with bvd's suggestion; don't try to optimize for IE6 too much
Try to build the site in IE6 first and modern browsers later.
Solutions:
The following CSS will remove any scrollbars on the html/body of your page. A terrible fix, as you're destroying the user's tools to navigate your site:
html, body { overflow: hidden }
Also, if you want a footer that sticks to the bottom of the page (I'm not sure if you do but it looks that way), try to follow this tutorial:
http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/
Lastly, if you want more help, I suggest you post a picture or design of what you're trying to achieve. A lot is possible in IE6, if you know how to work around CSS imperfections that browser has.
A final tip is modernizr: http://www.modernizr.com/
Modernizr solves a lot of IE6 issues, but not all. Also, you'll have a JavaScript dependency in your website which will affect at least IE6 and 7 users.
Good luck!
To remove the scrollbar you could give this property to #CS {overflow: visible;} it may fix the IE6 Scrollbar issue.
As mentioned by BVD you shouldn't be checking for compatibility in IE6, you should install the latest versions of IE i.e., IE9. IE9 provides a Developer Tool which allows you to check the html page for compatibility in IE7, IE8 and IE9. You should ignore IE6 and focus on compatibilty from IE7 version onwards. To get an idea of which browsers are popular check NetMarketShare
The naming conventions you've used for the Div's are not right, check this article it may help you understand what I'm talking about css naming conventions.
I'm having an issue with my navigation, the first list item appears to have a huge gap on the right.
I have a list of links inside an UL each have their own class so I could set a background icon to them. The first link has a background to give it the rounded effect.
I used relative to push to left so it would have that rounded effect for the hover and active states on the homepage and hover for when i'm on other pages.
Now it all works fine in new browsers apart from IE7 and probably older versions.
I've put it on JSFiddle to make it easier to view.
http://jsfiddle.net/datastream/Gta3h/2/
and http://eminemforum.net/navtest/nav2.html
Thanks
Live Demo (edit)
I got rid of <div id="navHold">.
I removed right: 40px from #topNav2 .home-icon.
I changed the width of #Navigation-Holder from 750px to 830px to make it appear the same width it was before I changed anything.
I've tested that this looks consistent in: IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome.
I am working on a small project, and am having two tiny problems with CSS.
I have played around with everything to no avail.
1) In IE6 the content and logo is not lining up correctly.
2) In Firefox, the tooltip box fixed at the bottom of the page (which degrades in IE6) although styled as width:100%; is not spanning the whole screen. There is a gap on the left hand side.
These problems can be seen by viewing http://gua.com/wd/ in the respective browsers.
If anyone could advise as to what has gone wrong, and why, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
for firefox: Yyou can add left:0; for #bottom
for internet explorer: I see your menu to be wrong not the logo. To solve this just add margin:0 for #top-nav
You should ideally be using some sort of css reset stylesheet to overcome specific browser idiosyncrasies.
In your case appending a margin: 0px; to your body should do the trick (For Firefox). IE6, well, its usually best left to a IE6 specific conditional stylesheet.
"100%" means "100% of the parent box's client space". Not "100% of the entire viewport".
And IE6's CSS support is f*cked beyond sanity. If it doesn't work, use absolute positioning or whatever else it takes in a special stylesheet and include it with conditional comments.