On 10/16/07, Lyn Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The first being a drop down menu I have developed won't display the > appropriate links. I seems the the drop down works but the links > won't appear. > > the second problem is I'm trying to float six different div elements > side to side but after the fourth element the next two clears to the > bottom of the page. > > You can see the page here: http://www.irn2000.com/public/ > (dropdown => the Information tab) > It works fine in Opera, so I'm assuming you are viewing in IE. (The menu doesn't drop down at all in my IE6 but that is probably because I have javascript locked down rather tight in IE *). Anyway, when content is invisible in IE, it is usually a problem with "HasLayout". Visit www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html to gain insight and solutions.
* This raises the point that to make your page both accessible and search-engine friendly, the tab "information" should link to a landing page which has conventional links to all the menu items. For the floats, the content of your first item is longer than the defined height of the float (because its heading text takes two lines). Therefore the items in the second row move left until they bump into the bottom corner of item 1, leaving a spare item to go on a third row. This isn't happening in other browsers, because they will position the image over the overlong text instead (IE treats "height" as min-height, others correctly treat it as absolute and default to overflow:visible). Not only that, the entire design of the panels is extremely fragile. In no browser does the white text sit in the middle of the bottom bar for me - you might have encountered my minimum font settings. Which results in a very broken page. You need to have the coloured bars as backgrounds to the relevant elements. Putting text of various colours over a single image background will never work reliably. Oh, and your design seems to assume that everyone has white window backgrounds. We don't. So if your design requires a white background you need to declare it. -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
