I am very, very new, so please pardon my ignorance.
I was away (thus using PC's) and have learnt to use embedded css and had my practice website going ok, then I came home to face my Mac.
(I have not learnt to use a separate CSS, because that was hard to do on borrowed computers so I only know embedded and in-line CSS)
No matter what I do (the file was already formatted to be plain text, saved as html), I cannot get any CSS property "linked" to my html. The html codes are showing, but the CSS seems completely lost. I took a screen shot of the very simple example. The right part is the what shows on the browser. Can you please enlighten me?
Did you try other browsers?
There are some similar issues in this page css not working in safari.
After you try other browsers with the newest version, you can locate the problem. If other browsers also don't work, the problem might arise from your code.
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I have a problem that has me stumped and I'm hoping someone here can help me solve it. I designed a new site using Sublime and am having problems with one file(page) that looks great on Sublime, but is screwed up when I put it on the live server.
From Sublime it renders perfectly on all web browsers, so I don't think has anything to do with it. I suspect that maybe it has something to do with the Cascading part of CSS. But, I don't know how to determine that.
Anyhow, here's the the code involved: http://portabledogpotty.com/dog-potties.html
The first section is the HTML and the second section is the CSS file. Any help would be very greatly appreciated!
Sam
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I see that just using the chrome element inspector.
Grettings
I have a Windows 7 with service pack 1, and Internet Explorer 10. And I have my site, http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/ . It looks great on Chrome, Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer. For starters, I wanted to test how my site looks using IETester, and it's a mess (please compare by clicking the link above):
The thing is, I think that maybe the issue could be that IE8 doesn't load well from <object> tags, is that it? I use three object tags to load the three white parts: header, vertical menu, and "site log" (you can see them here: http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/header.html , http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/verticalmenu.html , http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/thesitelog.html)
To load those three sites, I use the following code:
This one for the header, <object type="text/html" data="http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/header.html" width="100%" height=185></object>
This one for the menu, <object type="text/html" data="http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/verticalmenu.html" height=484 width=100%></object>
And this one for the log, <center><object type="text/html" data="http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/thesitelog.html" height=600 width="90%"></object></center>
Please let me know if anyone has any ideas concerning this "mess". Thank you!!
This isn't a real answer (It's a quick and careless answer at best, so don't take it too seriously)
But I just thought I'd mention that the the W3C markup validator might be useful to you if you don't already know about it.. It catches bad markup practices or errors on your page and can give you more information on how to fix them. At the time of writing, your front page alone has 10 errors and 3 warnings on it. Maybe this could point you in the right direction?
upon a quick skim of your page you don't seem to be utilising CSS properly. That is to say, that I see you are using css but you have elements on your page (use of <center> HTML tags, inline styling and things like that) that go against the grain of why CSS was invented.
If you haven't already seen the CSS zen garden, take a quick read/look at it. It should set you right on why we use CSS instead of tables and alignment tags.
(People sometimes don't get this immediately, but , click the links on the right in the zen garden. The same HTML and page content are completely restyled using one html file and seperate CSS sheets)
Good luck!
Edit:
Oh, I almost forgot to mention that internet explorer 8 doesn't have much (if at all) HTML5 compatibility. If you want to develop websites and web apps in HTML5 you'll be hard pressed to serve your I.E 8 visitors and may end up spending more time fixing bugs than you are developing the content.
Some developers are already boycotting I.E 8 entirely to usher in the new era of the web with HTML5 and CSS 3. There are a few js compatibility libraries out there (like excanvas for the new <canvas> element for example) but they don't work flawlessly and you will eventually have to draw the line somewhere. (lol. canvas.. draw line.. get it?) That being said, i did find this article and this may be useful to you:
turn-on-html5-in-ie8-or-lower
Not every website requires HTML5 and it's new technologies, but if you plan on using it for things like the <canvas> tag, Id suggest (from my own personal opinion) you forget about I.E 8 and concentrate on browsers that utilise it.
Remember that you can make checks in your HTML to see what browser version your visitor is using.
You can see if they are using an incompatible browser, and if so, you can then alert them that their software is out of date and suggest to them alternatives (such as chrome or firefox)
There's a bunch of tutorials on-line about this, here's the first decent looking one I found in a quick Google search this article covers using this technique for seperate CSS sheets but there are others that talk about the problem I mentioned in more depth and I'm sure you can probably figure out how to do it anyway once you read the article.
Either way, I'd say you've got a little bit of reading ahead of you to understand why your humble website does not work in an increasingly obsolete browser.
Again, good luck to you in your future endeavours.
Edit was too harsh:
Having looked a the site I would start by suggesting in future you think about design from a users perspective - the colour scheme you're using isn't very friendly on the eye, the red text against the green is particular troublesome to people with red/green color blindness, you also should consider how your content is presented.
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However, regarding your IE issues.
First things first, with any work is getting a firm plan of what you hope to achieve and setting a good groundwork before starting. With HTML that means leveling the playing field with regard to browser quirks, and to achieve that, you use a reset css file.
This ensures that all browsers (as close as possible) behave in more or less the same way, regarding padding, spacing, line heights etc, and can go along way to prevent these sort of problems from happening, and allow you to achieve consitancy.
There's more info at the link below.
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
Secondly your HTML version - your declaring HTML5 but then use HTML4 values and attributes - basically your site (as pointed out above) is not valid markup.
I have ben looking everywhere but I cant seem to find any good answer to this question.
I am loading a few items, first when page loads and then if the user wants to change language for example the divs are loaded dynamically again. In all browsers except IE this works fine. In IE the content is loaded BUT its css is completely lost. WHY? No clue? I have ben trying to load the css with the file I am loading without any result so now I am hoping for you guys!!
Please help
Like the above comments said, we'd need to see the code to get a better perspective of what's happening.
Just a thought. Have you gone through the debugging process with Console, this giving more information you could relay? Does the CSS work before the user changes? Is the CSS loaded in the header? And/or for debugging purposes have you seen if inline CSS works? (this would be better as a comment but I don't have that privilege yet). Good luck, and let us know.
Hello every one i had created a website using dreamweaver in windows7 which worked good in my system.I opened the same html site in another system with operating system windows xp and even in windows 7, but all the alignments of images ,textfields ,buttons and header image,content etc everything has been changed.what might be the problem.Can any one help me in solving this problem.Your answer will be most precious thing to me.Thanks to every one whose going to spend time on reading this question.
Without knowing more details it's hard to properly answer your question. Going to take a shot in the dark about a common issue.
If you did it in Dreamweaver you probably used its interface to drag and drop div elements around to place them in exactly the right positions. The problem with this method is that DW will use positioning relative to your screen size and it might not show up too well on other resolutions.
The solution to this is to make sure you code your containers correctly and not have a look at DW's CSS to fix it.
Without the HTML of your page (post it in pastebin and link it here), can't give a better answer.
Make sure you VALIDATE your code. In my experience using dreaweaver, the doctype declaration and the order of the tags can affect image positioning.
That was because you used different browser. In using Dreamweaver, try to not leave default values. For better debug you should code it with HTML and CSS. Those are not programming languages because they don't need exactly programming knownledge.
A really good HTML lessons at w3c.
A really good CSS lessons at w3c.
I inherited a webpage to manage at work. I needed to add a new button so simply edited the existing jpeg to include the button and added a hyperlink to the jpg to open the link.
In Chrome, Firefox etc. all is well but now I get a weird formatting on IE.
I am NOT a web developer and am perplexed.
Thank you in advance for your help and advice.
The website is www.kimberleyjackson.com.
Sincerely,
Jason
That page is not really HTML, it's using Word-generated VML which as you see is ancient and deprecated technique.
The only thing I can suggest is to rewrite the page using "pure" HTML without all this fancy and deprecated stuff.
As you're not a web developer I fear you'll have to hire one - web page should be developed by web developer, not by document processing software.
Like above people have said, this is not going to be an easy page to maintain. That being said... is your new image the same size as the old image? If not, that may be causing misalignment. What changes exactly did you make?