Table display problem in IE
Hey folks! I could sure use a hand here. I'm fairly new to web design and am currently working on a site for a local church. I've gotten the go ahead on the design and have checked it in Firefox, Netscape & Opera and it displays just as I expected.
In IE6 the main body area which is supposed to be centered is offset slightly to the right. After much web searching I found that the parent tag has to be set to centered for IE to render correctly. Well, The problem text is in a nested table and I've set EVERYTHING to centered in an attempt to get it to work and it's still off. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
Jim
PS: The page validates except for the slideshow. The slideshow is a dealbreaker for the guy in charge so I'm trying to figure out a way to get the Flash element to validate.
Busy posted this at 09:48 — 13th January 2005.
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At 800x600 the display is pretty much the same in Mozilla as it is in IE, both are causing a slight horziontal scroll bar.
Not sure where your slide show is, I don't have flash, but the placeholder for your flash item is causing the scroll bar.
your top section isn't 100%, in your top cell your have width = 13, 100 and 18% 's, just make the center one 100% or just align the right one to the right.
your table under that is only 98% wide
what screen size and which section you having the problem with? (can't check at moment or it will crash my puter)
Zombiebirdhouse posted this at 19:26 — 13th January 2005.
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Thanks Busy, I think I was too bleary eyed last night to figure it out. I've correctied the sizing errors in the header, reduced the size of the Flash placeholder and nested the entire middle table within another table so that I could make the center column 100%. It now seems to be working correctly in all browsers.
I still have to figure out a way to implement the Flash slideshow so that it validates. Any ideas on that would be welcome. I'll google to see if I can figure it out myself.
Thanks for the input!
Jim
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