Chrome Resizing Navigation Menus - html

So my problem is that for some reason on one page of a website I've been fiddling with, the two navigation bars that I have (Top and Sidebar Navigation) are for no apparent reason scaled down in the Google Chrome browser, their behavior is entirely normal in both iE and Firefox. The bar's remain completely functional, but are simply scaled down perhaps to 66% of the intended size.
Here is the code for the page in question: http://pastebin.com/uvrPR1JW
Here is the code for a similar, but functioning page for reference: http://pastebin.com/5dAMREfC
They're running off the same style sheet so the issue is likely in the HTML, however the style sheet is linked in the comment section for reference. If anyone spots any reason why it would be doing anything like this it'd be great to know. And I apologize for the messy code, as I said I'm just playing around with it.
Update:
You may notice that my code includes at least one flexbox, here is question posted by another user that may be related but I can't make heads or tails of it: Chrome shrinks figure elements as they are added to a flexbox
Update: Doesn't seem to be a problem with the flexbox, the issue still exists even when I remove all content except the top header.

I'd say it's the setup of your navbar, how you have an image and you just change the position of it on hover. Chrome has a weird feature where it moves things around when there is images so I would suggest looking up how to make a proper navigation bar (It's pretty easy).

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Mobile Safari Hover/Link Issue

So, here's a weird issue I've come across with Safari on Mobile—I suspect there's one root cause for all of it, but have not been able to figure it out:
Links wrapping images don't cover the full width and height (as they should screenshot below), just the upper left corner
Linked Buttons only work on the left half
Links with: hover will hang on the hover and you have to press through
To make things worse, development tools that are supposed to simulate iPhones don't show anything funky—the whole image/button should be linked, etc.—but when you use the site with an actual device, the above happens.
I know, I know, this feels like such a basic question, but I've been banging my head against it for two days now.
Here's my testing page, but you'll see it intermittently across the site: https://redcowmn.com/testing-safari-ios-issue/
Is there a stray line of code that tells Safari to misbehave?
Even an ultra simple <p>Hi</p> acts unreliably.
I'm building on the X Theme framework on Wordpress (where I've got 20+ other sites), Yoast SEO, Wordfence, Gravity Forms, WP Rocket (in Safe Mode), WooCommerce, and Stripe for WooCommerce.
Thanks, folks.
Modal screen!
I had a modal screen acting like some sort ghost element, screwing with the z-index, etc., etc. That's why only parts of the image were active.
Very strange that only Safari had an issue with it, but anyways, that was the issue.
I guess that's what I get for trying to hiding a required ugly embed off screen... :)

On scroll cover previous section, no js

I am trying to perform a scrolling effect.
On scroll, the next page section should cover the current one.
So the current section is docked to the top of the screen and while the next section arrives the current is progressively covered but doesn't move.
Basically I am trying to reproduce the effect I found on this website:
http://www.squarespace.com/seven/interface
It works only with css (I tried with js disabled)
I've tried to reverse engineer it but I am not successful so far.
If someone had so advices I would greatly appreciate.
Main idea is that every <section> has height and position: relative and 'overflow: hidden'. But every tag inside those sections has position: fixed.
I tried looking at the site with JavaScript turned off and got nothing but a blank screen and a scroll bar (same in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari/iOS). Furthermore, Chrome tells me that all kinds of functions get called as you scroll. Unless there is some serious trickery here, squarespace.com seems to be using JavaScript.
Though you may be able to pull of something like the checkbox-hack to set and/or animate the top of different sections, I don't think the result for the minority of users validates the development time.
I put together a small fiddle which should help you on your way if you want something like the website you linked to. Notice that this is still usable if you disable or comment out the JavaScript.
https://jsfiddle.net/kx94my17/1/

jsfiddle layout broken: wrong input size. Where is the size stored?

I came across a weird bug with jsfiddle. The layout I get when I visit the site is completely broken. This bug happened when I dragged the vertical resize bar while my second display disconnected. See this the result:
There is probably a way I can get this fixed from the inspector by resizing it manually, locating left panels and changing their width manually and than playing with the vertical resize bar; I'l keep investigating.
Where are the layout positions stored?
Before asking this question, I tried to reset my cookies, I had a look into local storage and session storage (they were both empty). I know it's a local issue because jsfiddle is too awesome to break like that, it's not because of the code in the fiddle, I opened the fiddle in private navigation and worked like a charm.
Edit: I fixed my issue by deleting .column.left, #handler_vertical appeared, I moved it and now data is fixed, but I still don't know where this is stored ;)
I had this same issue and worked out that it was after I reduced the size of my browser window, I'd accidentally moved the vertical bar left, which caused this to 'disappear', so when I resized the window to full, no vertical bar!
To fix, I searched the inspector element for 'handler_vertical', and around this were column left and column right, with widths set inline. Simply remove these inline widths and it's back to normal.
Strange that some js is still adding itself even after clearing cache and cookies!!
I accidentally deleted an HTML node in Chrome's inspector, which broke JSfiddle's layout.
When I reloaded the page, I was surprised to see the layout was still broken.
I cleared my cache and made a hard reload, but JSfiddle's layout was still broken!
The solution came out recently : I changed Chrome's theme... and it fixed JSfiddle.
Sometimes you just don't want to understand.
I know this was solved a while ago, but I just wanted to add that the FAQ acknoledges this and pasting Layout.setWindowSizes(null)into the browser console fixes the layout.
Source: http://doc.jsfiddle.net/faq.html
Same just happened to me, reloading the site had no effect but deleting last cached elements made it

Floated div dropping below others in IE and FF

I'm having an odd problem with some floated divs on this page that I'm working on. There are 3 of them across the page, with 1em margins between. In Chrome they line up perfectly, but in IE and FF, the right hand one drops a little - but not all the way below. I thought this might be best described with a picture, please see below:
I can't work out which bit of the CSS is causing this - I've been through the new FF code inspector and highlighted all block level objects with the webdev toolbar but can't see anything that would cause such a drop.
I did wonder if it was something within the JS twitter feed causing it, but I've swapped round the Twitter and "Update" boxes and it's always the right-hand one. I've also tried removing additional elements from the page - everything between the menu and these three boxes.
I must admit, I'm at my wit's end! Can anyone spot something obvious I've missed? The CSS is fairly large, and I'm not sure which bit to show, so I haven't copied it in in, but will do if anyone desires. Otherwise everything can be viewed at http://www.woodexperts.com
Change width: 15.25em in div#main div.tricolumn to width: 15.24em
That should take care of the issue.
I understand that this is a hack, but if IE is the only browser causing problems, you might want to consider IE conditional comments that restrict certain styles only for IE:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms537512(v=vs.85).aspx

Rendering differences of a relatively positioned element across browsers

I recently made a new WordPress theme for a local travel company and they are now getting reports that two elements in my design are not in the correct positions in Firefox (seems specific to version 3.6) and Chrome for Mac.
A page where both issues are visible: http://www.totemtravel.com/blog
Issues:
The white flag with the logo on it at the top of every page jumps
several inches to the right to cover the area code of the first
phone number.
The search button at the bottom of the blog categories widget in the sidebar jumps to the right, out of the widget, and off the page content wrapper.
I think the issue has to do with where those browser assume the item should be before the relative positioning, but I need a way to make these all look the same across all modern-ish browsers.
I wont paste the pages of source code behind the theme since it can be easily viewed with Firebug or the Chrome inspector, but please let me know if any additional info would help.
1: The img for the white flag must have left:0. Not all browsers default to left 0. Firefox for example, is defaulted to left:50%. Another problem is your trying to relatively position a td element for the title "Totem Travel", this is invalid and I would recommend using divs here instead of tables.
2: This is due to the native CSS styling differences of the browsers. That is why people use CSS Reset style sheets, to zero everything out so you know for sure the "default" css is the same. Here's an example: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/. The effect this is having on your css now is that, the submit button is falling down to under the input as it doesn't have enough space - so when you are relatively positioning it it is off in the browsers.
3: Relatively/absolutely positioning everything isn't quite the best way to go about styling a website. You will find many inconsistencies like you are experiencing and there are better ways. I would recommend visiting some example themes on sites such as themeforest.com or elegantthemes.com and seeing how they do their CSS and HTML