DIV Not Displaying In Chrome & Firefox - html

I am very new to working with cross-browser HTML/CSS. I'm trying to create a page with DIVs that have embedded DIVs.
I want to create a page that looks something like this:
http://www.tennantco.com/am-en/equipment
Where I have a DIV with a background picture and also a "header" DIV within the DIV that contains a background-color and text. Something like this:
<div>
<div>
<a/>
<div>
<h3/>
</div>
</div>
</div>
which is how the above referenced website seems to do it.
But I can't get it to work in Chrome & Firefox. It does work on IE8 (which is the version of IE - the only version - I need to support). The above referenced website does work in Chrome & Firefox, so I know I'm doing something wrong.
The problem is that on Chrome and Firefox the header part does not show up. I've created a fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/03ddL05k/
This is probably very simple, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I apologize for asking such an inane question.
Thanks for your help.

You have opacity: 0; defined (inlined) for your anchor tags.
opacity specifies the transparency of an element. The value applies to the element as a whole, including its content, the element and its contained children as well. 0 is fully transparent, meaning invisible.
I updated your fiddle for your review http://jsfiddle.net/yongchuc/03ddL05k/4/.

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Why doesn't my page render properly in Internet Explorer?

I have a simple but strange problem.
I can't resolve it after giving so many tries I have a table here is the screenshot for Mozilla:
It also looks good in Chrome:
But the problem occurs in IE.
here the fiddle with all the code
How to do it right in IE?
The table gaping
map hides after using div instead of iframe
you can put the iframe in a table to align with the above tables(Contact Details)
for example given in the http://jsfiddle.net/BEBdv/
I tested in IE8:
I hope it will help you.
Just set height:auto to your top most <div> tag that wraps everything.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/gQXPn/2/
The problem is because of the use of iframe tag which is not supported by IE
(Source: http://caniuse.com/#search=iframe)
You can easily use a div tag instead of iframe and all should be fine.

Should be a simple IE7 css fix, but I can't figure it out

Check out http://campbellcustomcoatings.com/ in something other than IE7, then in IE7. You can see that in IE7, the facebook like button is more to the right and up. I'd like to push it down in IE7 as it is in any other browser. I've tried for over an hour and I can't get it to budge.
I changed the following for IE7 and it seemed to place the button in a similar position to how it looks in Chrome.
#fblike {
margin-left:57px;
margin-top:10px;
}
I think the problem is coming from the floated <li> items. If you highlight the elements using Chrome DOM browser (F12 then select the Elements tab) you can see that because floats exist, the "nav", "container" and "fblike" <div>s do not strictly contain all the child elements. You could create a horizontal navigation without using floats. A list apart has a nice article on lists which may help cross-browser rendering issues (which I am always getting with floats!)
Just add some left and top margin to the iframe. to do this for just IE7, do:
*margin-top:20px; /*20 looked good for me */
*margin-left:20px;
Keep in mind that this won't validate as legit CSS (at least, i don't think it does) but other browsers will ignore it and it works fine.
I know exactly what you're talking about as I have the same issue. The button looks different (size and position) in various versions of IE than in other browsers.
However, you cannot modify or apply CSS to a Facebook Like Box plugin because its content is contained within an <iframe> element coming from the Facebook server.
The only styling options you have are the ones given to you by Facebook.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/
More info:
Embedded Facebook Like-Box won't let me style it. Why?
Adding CSS to Facebook Like Box

Display problem in IE8

The following page is mucked up in IE8 -- the bulk of the content starts appearing half way down the screen and the tables/divs do not look as they should. It works in other browsers and in IE8 compatibility mode. I've inspected the HTML and can't work out what's wrong. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
http://www.moviemonitor.com/browse/itunes
After a quick glance in Firefox and IE8, I'd say there is some malformed HTML in there somewhere. Looks to me like a mismatched open/close tag that IE8 isn't forgiving. Run the whole thing through an HTML validator.
I suggest removing the min-height: 800px; CSS value from the first DIV element after <div id="mainContent">. Apparently IE8 renders the first child block level element with that height irrespective of any other contained elements.
Then again, those HTML validation results are pretty grim. Try to fix some of the invalid HTML and make sure that all of your tags are closed properly.

contentEditable breaks page up down buttons in firefox

Does anyone know how to fix (or what causes) the page up/down bug in FF when contentEditable is present on a div?
See an example
Navigate to contentEditable article with FireFox (3 or 3.5) and use the Page Up/down arrows on your keyboard. You should be unable to scroll to the bottom of the page, and it should appear to flicker and jump back up.
I think it's a bug of Firefox which even exists in the newest version, 3.6.8.
For the sample page there are 2 ways to make the page up/down buttons work:
Change all the three DOM node's contenteditable="true" to false.
Find the id="main-content" node, and delete the style float: left;.
Seems the problem for Firefox is contenteditable="true" conflict with the style float:left;.
The only way i can see is to use an iframe... like TinyMCE and CKEditor WYSIWYG editors, they both use iframes. However content loaded in an iframe does not posses the styling rules of its parent. Therefor has to be adapted ... the reason to herald the contentEditable div in the first place.
Since no one answered i'm going to sulk and play with matches

Strange gap between <div> elements in IE, not in FF or Opera

I know this kind of question must get asked all the time but I haven't found a solution for my problem yet.
Using FF, Opera and the IE that is on Windows 7 (can't remember what it is), the page looks exactly as it should, but using IE7 on Windows Vista, there is a gap between my navigation bar and the rest of the page which frankly makes it look stupid, and the illusion of tabbed pages is lost.
I have a reset stylesheet to reset all the elements to have no padding, margins etc and FF, Opera and the IE on Windows 7 produce the page as they should, it's only IE7 (and I'm guessing earlier versions of IE) that don't.
Here are 2 screenshots showing the problem, the first from FF/Opera/IE on Windows 7:
This one is from IE7 on Windows Vista:
alt text http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/7558/figarosiegap.jpg
And here is a link to the actual website in question: Figaro's Ristorante
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks for your time.
I've run into this problem a bazillion times. Add this to your CSS:
#header img { vertical-align: bottom }
There's a funny bug in IE up to and including version 7 where it will treat some whitespace (an empty text node, really) as a real text node, and align the image as if there was text in the element as well.
Another option would be to declare the image as a block level element:
#header img { display: block }
This CSS is safe to add to your global file, it will not interfere with how other browsers render the page.
The IE on windows 7 is IE8
I've taken a look at it using IE7, and the gap appears to be because of the image in the 'header' div. If you look at it with a tool like IE Developer toolbar you can see the boundaries around the objects on the page.
Sorry i cant paste an image but i'll try to describe it:
there is a #text element after the image which is being forced onto a new line by IE7.
if you change the style on the img to include
float: left;
This fixes the problem for me.
Hope this helps!
(Let me know if you need more clarity)
The gap is part of the text line where the menu image is, because the image is an inline element so it's placed on the baseline of the text line. The gap is the distance from the baseline of the text to the bottom edge of the line, i.e. the space used by hanging characters like 'g' and 'j'.
Simply adding display:block; to the style of the image solves the problem. It turns the image element from an inline element to a block element so that it's not placed on a base line of the text but as a separate element.
I've run into this problem a thousand times, and finally, after using overly complicated fix after fix, the answer is simple! (At least when <img>'s are involved.) In the div that is producing a gap under it, add 'overflow: hidden;' to its css; you will need to set its height, of course. So, if your div is 39px high, this will keep it at 39px high, ignoring the extra whitespace IE loves to put under <img>s
Hope it helps.
There's not much useful information (html or pictures that work) in this question. So, here's a random guess.
I've had situations where a line-break or spaces between elements can cause vertical space between elements. Try placing the closing and opening tags immediately next to each other and see if this corrects the issue.
Different browsers all have different default margins and padding. In this case, I'm guessing IE7s defaults are throwing you off. There are two general solutions to the problem. You can set your own margin and padding at the html, body level:
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
or you can use IE conditional comments to load sepearte stylesheets for different versions of IE. Last I checked, the conditional comments were considered a better solution because browser defaults do provide some usefulness.
Jason is correct that it's a bug in how IE handles whitespace in the html... treating it as a text node. Though I don't think it's unique to images. I believe I've seen this behavior with divs as well. As a global change you may try applying vertical-align:bottom to both images and divs. Though I don't know what mayhem that may produce.
But the quick and dirty fix is to just remove the whitespace. Kinda sucks, but change stuff like this:
<img src="blah" alt="" width="5" height="5" />
<div>blorg</div>
To this:
<img src="blah" alt="" width="5" height="5"
/><div>blorg</div>
I warned that this is quick and dirty. But it works.