[help] Site looks erratic in IE but fine in firefox!!

[nocturnal]

Hi,

I need urgent help.
the url is http://www.iitk.ac.in/apsec06

you can see a strange white strip in IE which is absent in firefox. I
have been trying (unsuccessfully, ofcourse) to track down the cause.
Please help me.

Can somebody suggest a site which lists the differences that can occur
while rendering in IE and firefox.

Please, its urgent,

thanx in advance
cheers
Mridul

 

[nocturnal]

sorry the url is
www.cse.iitk.ac.in/apsec06

 

[Craig]

sorry the url is
www.cse.iitk.ac.in/apsec06

nocturnal

I can't see anything off-hand but, running your code through tidy found
a fair amount of errors related to tables and divs. If you don't know
about tidy, I'd recommend you look here: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

Also, fwiw, there are other newsgroups that are probably much more in
line with html coding discussions.

let us know how it turns out.

Craig

 

[CharlieDontSurf]

sorry the url is
www.cse.iitk.ac.in/apsec06

Improperly nested tags. This is the main culprit:

</td>
<div id="content">
<td valign="top"><img src="images/p.gif" border="0" height="10"
width="1"></td>
<td bgcolor="#dee4f6" valign="top">

You can't insert a DIV between table cells. Change the above to this:

</td>
<td valign="top"><img src="images/p.gif" border="0" height="10"
width="1"></td>
<td bgcolor="#dee4f6" valign="top">
<div id="content">

Then, way down below, change this:

</table>
</td>
</div>
</tr> <!-- NEW TOPPROMO start /jeno -->

to this:

</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr> <!-- NEW TOPPROMO start /jeno -->

Then in your styles, delete these rules from #content:

position:absolute;
top:200px;

That'll fix it.

 

[Craig]

You can't insert a DIV between table cells.

v. cool Charlie. Thx for the ^^^ tip.

Craig

 

[CharlieDontSurf]

v. cool Charlie. Thx for the ^^^ tip.

Craig

IE's parser is usually the most forgiving of the bunch, but stuffing a
positioned element into the no-man's land between closed tags is a
morass of conflicting signals.

BTW, I meant to mention something a while back, but I let it get by me.

13-14 years ago, I made a lateral move into a job position everyone else
was too terrified to take. It involved getting cold-tossed into a room
with a wall of ring-bound manuals, a 386, 4 terminals, and a weird OS...
SCO Xenix. I got to enjoy a fiercely productive and interesting year and
a half (with no oversight, since disturbing the equanimity of the guy
who talked to the inventory-control electrical gods would be bad juju).
Fun ended when they moved to a wretched DOS/dBase system with data feeds
from a poorly managed remote mainframe. I bolted soon after that.

Thanks to you and your compadres, my first exposure to Unix was a
gratifying experience. Tip 'o the hat to you.

 

[dszady]

sorry the url is
www.cse.iitk.ac.in/apsec06

You first have to validate your page(s). The errors are easy to fix.
http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html

Your CSS needs a little fixin'.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-text

ALWAYS validate first before asking for help. It could be a simple comma
out of place.

ALWAYS write for a good browser first (Firefox comes to mind). Fix for
Internet Explorer after.

On top of that, your page does looks pretty good in Firefox 1.5.

 

[Craig]

...<stuff deleted>...
Thanks to you and your compadres, my first exposure to Unix was a
gratifying experience. Tip 'o the hat to you.

Thanks for the kinds words. It was at a time, with a company and a
product, where we really felt we were making a difference. Now back to
our regularly scheduled viewing...

Craig

 

[Margrave of Brandenburg]

Looks fine in IE. And Avant. And Firefox.
What's the problem?