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I'm going absolutely bonkers trying to figure this one out. I've given up and decided it can't be done - at least not with my present level of inexperience.
If anyone thinks they could help would you please send me a private email and I'll reply with the url where the wretched site is sitting at the moment. I'm trying to re-design a site I already have posted, but with a cleaner design, which just happens to be a CSS template. Probably not one of my brighter ideas.
It's so exasperating. The site displays fine in IE (older version at that) Safari, and Netscape Navigator (haven't got Mozilla on the Mac and haven't had a chance to check the page out on my laptop PC as I've been busy working on the Mac all day...) {While I think of it, does anyone have the url where you can check out how your site looks in multiple browsers including Opera? Had it but lost it a while back.}
On Firefox, when I view this site the outside container breaks near the bottom whenever I include the 'mail-a-friend' script in the template. You have to scroll almost to the bottom to see the break. It stays nice and solid in all the other browsers. I think its a maverick <div> somewhere that's causing the problem, but darned if I can find it.
I would be so grateful if someone who knows something about this could take a peek. If it can't be fixed I will simply get rid of the the refer-a-friend script, but it is a nice feature that I'd like to keep if at all possible.
I'm asking you to send me a private email as I really don't want to publically post this site at this time.
Thanks in advance to any and all who might be inclined to have a go at this.
I'm heading for a hot tubby right now and a glass - nay - two glasses of red wine. Will check back tomorrow.
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Shanne, has anyone assisted you yet?
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I've had problems with Firefox displaying web pages before. In my case, it was using the wrong version of HTML in the shebang line. Firefox doesn't fully support some of the older versions.
You can find help with web standards on Firefox here: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web_Standards
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One quick thing to point out is that I believe FF just came out with an update, so there may be a new version that displays correctly.
Cheers
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Thanks everyone ( & Kathleen, for following up on this for me.)
I have decided to remove the script and everything looks nice and tidy again. I've come up with a work around, so all is well. However, it was a very frustrating problem - added about 3,962 new gray hairs to the current crop over the whole shebang.
It was a learning experience - in that I learned I really don't need these kinds of experiences.
Off now to see what new trouble I can create for myself!
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shanne,
Redesigning a site in CSS is actually a good move, however you need to follow a few guidelines. Firstly make sure that your html code is standard's compliant and has the correct DOCTYPE header corresponding to the flavour of html you are using. Next, run your html code through a xhtml checker (see link below) to catch any problems. When your code is compliant it should display correctly in any modern browser, FireFox included. Note that Explorer (any version including v7.x) is not standard's compliant; it's only Microsoft compliant.
Check your HTML
Check your CSS
If you have a Mac then I'd recommend BBEdit; it's one of the best tools for html debugging on any platform.