Newbie needs help with CSS

They have: 21 posts

Joined: Mar 2001

Here's my test page
3dshoots.com/sched3/index.html

I have a bunch of questions.
1) why doesn't the red background line "information.." not extend the
width of the box below it.

2) why doesn't the footer extend the width the box above it.

3) why does this page look so much different under netscape 7.1 &
mozilla. Under IE 6 most things end up where the should. Under
Mozilla you can even see the top have of the "Information" box.
Someone said earlier versions of netscape chopped off the top as well.

4) did I lay this out the wrong way?

Thanks for any advice

Renegade's picture

He has: 3,022 posts

Joined: Oct 2002

You have many things that are absolutely positioned, a BIG no, no.

Try validating your CSS and (X)HTML, they usually pick up quite a lot of errors, sometimes quite obvious ones because you know what they are ment to be and what they really are (if you konw what I mean :S)

Also, all your CSS should be in lowercase.

Not sure if it helps but try the Hex colours instead of the words. e.g #000 instead of "Black" Laughing out loud

g'luck Laughing out loud

They have: 10 posts

Joined: Jul 2003

why didn't you just use a table cell that spans the width of content cell and have its background ur red???

you really tried to over complicate things...

but as for fixing ur problem, same as renegade said , ur CSS dont validate , try fixing that first. w3c.org will help with that.

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