formatting error in IE7

[Guest]

I've been wrestling with this problem for weeks. I finally have it boiled
down to 1 files, that shows the problem. www.medi.net/temp/iebug.html The
VERY first time you load the file (ie. delete all your cached files) it
messes up in random places. You'll know it does, because you will get a
scrollbar across the bottom of the page and some of the lines go way out to
the right. Pressing the reload button will always reformat it properly.
It's originally from a php script. That will almost never format properly.
So I had to output everything to a file and then issue a refresh, which works
better, but the user still has to click on the refresh button to get a good
copy. Anyone got any ideas?

 

[C A Upsdell]

I've been wrestling with this problem for weeks. I finally have it boiled
down to 1 files, that shows the problem. www.medi.net/temp/iebug.html The
VERY first time you load the file (ie. delete all your cached files) it
messes up in random places. You'll know it does, because you will get a
scrollbar across the bottom of the page and some of the lines go way out to
the right. Pressing the reload button will always reformat it properly.
It's originally from a php script. That will almost never format properly.
So I had to output everything to a file and then issue a refresh, which works
better, but the user still has to click on the refresh button to get a good
copy. Anyone got any ideas?

The problem is not in Firefox or IE7. It is in IE6, which has a lot of
subtle bugs.

Your code is very clean, but I am very suspicious of your use of the
FONT tag. I would be inclined to use DIV or SPAN instead.

 

[Guest]

The problem is not in Firefox or IE7. It is in IE6, which has a lot of
subtle bugs.

Your code is very clean, but I am very suspicious of your use of the
FONT tag. I would be inclined to use DIV or SPAN instead.

Thanks. Good observation, however the results are still the same using span or div instead of font. And the problem is in IE7, since that is the browser we have installed locally here. Firefox works fine.

 

[Jon Kennedy]

Users of IE7 are asked to post their comments to
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general newsgroup.

On the web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

In your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

 

[Guest]

I wondered why there wasn't a IE7 newsgroup.

Users of IE7 are asked to post their comments to
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general newsgroup.

On the web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

In your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general


--

Jon Kennedy, MS MVP/IE
Charlotte, NC, USA
(e-mail address removed)

 

[C A Upsdell]

The problem does not exist for me with IE7, on XP SP2. So the problem
may result from something different in your PC ... but I cannot say what
this might be.