Normally I'm able to fix my HTML errors by myself since it's not that complicated, but this time, I'm having a hard one.
I decided to change my navigation on my website and most of it works well & most browsers displays it correctly.
Where my problem is tho, is that I have a 5-6px margin I cannot find where is coming from. The link & image showing my problem will be below.
My second problem is that IE7 shows a huge margin, and again, I cant spot where it's coming from.
The webpage URL is: Deaglegame.net & below here is the image:
I'm leaving for work in a couple hours, so if I dont reply it's not because I dont wanna reply, I'll check this thread as soon as possible, but any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks to anyone willing to help!
The IE7 Issue is due to compatibility view. This will be forced on you by default if you are visiting the page through an intranet address. You can get around this issue by dropping the bottom padding and setting the height to 175px: for the main div. This also seems to fix the margin issue when running compatibility view.
You menu item list is somehow causing the margin issue outside of compatibility view, I would suggest when running IE to hit F12 and that should open Developer tools, that is how I found these settings that needed to be adjusted.
#Mmerrell's fix for div#main should sort one half of the issue. Next comes #Bumble Bee's observation for your ul#navigation li a span styles. The padding of the SPAN elements is causing your links to push the content.
/* deaglegame.css (line 48) */
#navigate li:hover a span,
#navigate li.hover a span,
#navigate li.active a span {
/* removed padding: 12px 0 0; */
}
/* deaglegame.css (line 30) */
#navigate li a span {
cursor: pointer;
float: left;
height: 38px;
line-height: 2.5;
/* removed padding: 12px 0 0; */
position: relative;
}
Drop the padding on them and set the line-height property. In general, it's better to use line-height for the vertical positioning of text (it applies to content of both block and inline elements) in place of padding.
You may want to consider using YUI CSS reset in the future (or perhaps even integrating it now), http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/cssreset/ . I've found it helps me considerably when designing cross-browser compatible sites, and has almost eliminated weird margin or padding errors I come across.
Check the image below, which might solve your first problem. Try to specify a lesser value for the padding there. Consider using a tool like firebug to resolve this kind of issues.
Related
Wondering if anyone can help with an IE8 issue, I've searched high and low and tried many different things. On a WordPress site for a client, an input text box appears much smaller than it should, and off to the side of the page, as compared with all other browsers I've tested.
You can see a grab of how the page looks on IE8 (on Windows 7) here:
http://perfectitaliano3.fonterra.safecom.com.au/wp-content/uploads/grab2.jpg
If you compare that to the page http://perfectitaliano3.fonterra.safecom.com.au/recipe/potato-rosemary-and-speck-pizza/ in a modern browser you’ll see the width and placement of the search box and filter dropdown menu at the top right is all messed up.
I'm a bit a noob at IE8 issues, but I’ve tried changing the css, patching it with modern.js, html5 shiv, modernizr, all sorts of things, but nothing makes any difference!
If you have any suggestions please let me know, thanks.
Try this
#top #s{
height: 40px;
padding: 0px 47px 0px 5px;
}
Thanks so much for answering #Jenti. I tried your suggestion but it didn't seem to work, although because it's now live I tried it in the developer tools in a virtual machine version of IE8, so one can never be sure ;)
However I've since found a solution, I added the following:
#searchform > div {
width: 500px;
}
#s {
display: table-cell !important;
}
and that seemed to do it. Thanks again and appreciate it.
I have a large menu built from lists.
It is displaying correctly in all the modern browsers I have tried and IE8, however in IE7 the list items appear to be given large amounts of margin of varying size depending on the size of the list item (see image comparison below):
Unfortunately the debugging tools in IE7 are less than optimal and I am having a real hard time working out where the issue is coming from. The source code is a bit lengthy to post here so I have made a JSfiddle for your viewing pleasure.
View source code and working demo
Can anyone see where this mystery spacing is coming from, and how can I put it straight?
In IE7 the <ul> tags are inheriting a line-height : 1.5em, disabling it in ie7 removes the annoying spacing. Updated fiddle
This condition is the culprit
ul {
/* line-height: 1.5em; */
list-style-position: outside;
}
Additional
Ok I see what you mean about the white gap. This looks like its (surprise surprise) one of those annoying ie7 'features'. I just got round it by using a hack
ul li, ul li a {
/* Needed in ie7 to stop list items expanding vertically
*line-height:1.2em;
}
with
* html ul li a {
height:15px;
}
or
ul#map > li > a.map-item {
height:auto;
*height:15px;
}
Fiddle with no spacing in IE7
A better way would be to create an IE7 only stylesheet and declare this as standard rather than relying on a hack.
Have you tried adding CSS to reset all the styles to the same for all browsers?
By including a reset CSS file such as: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ may help with your issue.
my friend was helping me make a new design for my website but has since gotten a full time job. Web Design is not my strong suit and I can't get it to work across all browsers!
So right now, my website looks good in Chrome and Safari. But is broken in FireFox
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22866203/sb%202/speedbump.html
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22866203/sb%202/speedbump.css
I was researching/trying different CSS Resets to fix this problem (Meyers Reset) but this only seemed to break the page in Chrome and Safari as well.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
If you started without a reset then a reset is not going to help. You particular problem is that you're not clearing your floats. To solve it do this:
#social-media, hr { clear: both; }
Btw, you have a 404 error on an image and many other warnings. Check firebug or devtools.
As I was messing a bit with your site with firebug, I noticed that if you add to some divs the property float: left it arranges the site to look like it does in chrome.
Download FireBug for firefox (great tool) and arrange the floating divs exactly how you want them to be.
Hope it helps.
Give the #wrapper overflow:hidden and remove margin top from previous and after divs.
The problem is that you have floated elements in the body text (left) and the green box (right) but the parent isn't floated, meaning that the floated elements will not affects it's overall height. Also, don't use hr, instead, use borders.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33811812/stackoverflow/speedbump/Speedbump.html
The paths are now relative to my folder and you'll need to change them back.
IDs need to be unique(#wrapper) I see four ( 4 ) instances of it from the image above.
Use a class instead as it can be re-used.
.wrapper:after{
visibility: hidden;
height:0;
display: block;
clear:both;
*zoom:1;
content: '.';
}
IE 9 on Hover over a link, pushes some of the HTML down the page.
When i remove the color from
td.subarea > h2 > a:hover { color: #aa051a; text-decoration: none;}
the problem does not occur.
I can't paste all the code here, and fairly sure its a unique problem to this page.
But maybe someone out there has seen something similar.
Its not moving the Link(a tag) down the page, its the whole containing table that moves.
This problem seems to occur in IE9 when the container element is set to overflow: auto and there is some hover action taking place in the child element.
There is a very simple solution of adding min-height: 0px to the container element, which works.
The detailed explanation of the bug and this solution can be found in this link:
http://blog.brianrichards.net/post/6721471926/ie9-hover-bug-workaround
Make sure your line-height and font-size properties are the same for normal and hover.
Sort of found the problem, well makes the table stop moving. margin-top:-20px.
Although it olny shifted down about 10px.
Probably some IE9 rendering issue. IE7/8 actually move the table on intial loading.
The font sizes, line-heights, all that css, is all good for the link.
Marc B is probably close to the issue of IE rendering something wrong and cauing floats and such to mess up.
Now have to real style a table layout wihtin a table layout page(ugh, hate table layout).
For me I had to specify
height:100%;
Then I had to go ahead and specify
width:100%;
The 'min-height: 0px' by mohitp above got me on the right track.
A few days ago I re-skinned my website. Development of this skin was primarily done using safari, and as expected, it all renders fine using firefox and opera. I've had to make a few small tweaks for IE7, but nothing much, except for one problem...
The date indicators for a post are cut off in IE. This problem seems to occur only on nested span tags inside a left floating div. I think I need the floating div's in order to layout text on the left and the right side of the screen.
Do any of you know how to stop IE7 from clipping my text?
Edit: I have sort of given up on this problem. My scripts now check for IE7 and feed it somewhat simplified HTML that its limited engine can handle. It works in IE8, so, for now, just the special case for IE7 will have to do...
In most cases where IE6 or 7 clips off the bottom of text, just add:
line-height: normal;
to the CSS rules concerned. Should fix it nicely, but as you'll understand, it expands the box too.
There's a hack I figured out that fixes the problem of cutting off text in IE. I noticed the last line in my headline was the only one being cut off.
My original CSS which was cutting off the last line in IE7 but looked fine in other browsers:
h2 {
font-size: 22px;
line-height: 1em;
}
See image of problem here: https://skitch.com/pablohart/f4g3i/windows-7-x64
The fix I did included simply adding padding to the bottom and then taking that padding back with negative margin. Like this:
h2 {
font-size: 22px;
line-height: 1em;
padding-bottom: 5px;
margin-bottom: -5px;
}
See picture of fix in this image: https://skitch.com/pablohart/f4g4h/windows-7-x64
The problem with line-height: normal; is that it takes on the default line-height for the font, usually 1.3em.
Try adding overflow: visible; to your .postdate class. Maybe that helps.
I had a similar problem. I changed my span to a div and the problem was resolved. I think IE7 might have an issue processing line-height on a span. Haven't confirmed that to be the issue. There were other CSS elements. (Working on someone else's code.) But changing from span to div (block) resolved the issue.
for the .bigdate class, try replacing margin with padding; seems to me that this has something to do with IE's margin-handling.
Adding a specific height to .title fixes it for me (in IE6):
.title {
PADDING: 0 10px 0 0; MARGIN-top: 0.3em; FLOAT: right; height: 1em;
Despite being unable to test it on my current machine: I would suspect that it's a hasLayout bug. The methods of dealing with it are listed in the "properties" section of that link.
In my experience its invariably the bottom of the text that gets clipped and that too basically because of the overlapping divisions. If you are able to ensure that the divs don't overlap then the issue does get resolved . That apart adding overflow: visible does help at times.
Try adding
div.postmeta { height: 100px; }
div.postdate { height: 75px; }
Arbitrary height value... but you'd know the exact height you want. That should keep the text containers from clipping in IE7.
I think the problem is with the padding. I tried removing a "padding: 3px" style and it worked properly. Previously it was not showing anything. Paul Hart's answer showed me that.
Probably also removing/overriding margin properties may also help.