Re: Hmmmm, strange ?

"Aries" <notme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I wonder why my webpage is appearing as it should in IE but not
in Firefox where the central table is all over the the left hand
side ?

I think Ali has explained most of the things on that Page, that are
causing it to show up weirdly.

Using a combination of 2 different HTML Editors to Write & Edit
Web Pages can often lead to problems (especially if one of them
is M$ FrontPage)

It means that each one has to Read through the stuff that the other
one has Written & try & work out whether to leave it in, Remove it
or ReWrite it, depending on whether the Page is s'posed to be a Valid
HTML Document.

Also, as Ali mentioned, since the DOCTYPE Declaration isn't complete,
the Page is *saying* that it's one thing & is actually another!

So many Web Browsers will get a bit Confuzzled about it & won't know
how to Display all the various bits of it.

I see you say that you have now got it looking how you want (Centred?)
in both of *your* Browsers & that some other people have said that
it shows up Centred in theirs as well...

& that Pam (Goose) mentioned that it was Wider than her Screen
(Or Browser Window?), so she had to Scroll Horizontally, to see it...

Well, it's also wider than my Browser Window (I normally don't use
a Full Screen Browser Window, cos I don't want a massive great big
Browser Window, with a tiny bit of Text & Pictures showing up, which
is what normally happens, when I have a 1600 x 1200 Browser Window,
so I usually use a Browser Window of about 1024 x 768 & alter the Size
as & when I want to)

So, I had a look at it in a bigger Browser Window (Using Internet
Explorer) & it's definitely *not* actually Centred on the *Page*!!!

I think that (part of) it *is* Centred , but only Centred within
a 1238 Pixel Wide <div>.

That's cos of this bit...

</quote>
<div class="c3">
<div class="c3" style="width: 1238; height: 1448">
<div align="center">
<center>
<table class="c22" height="1255" cellspacing="0"
bordercolordark="#FF00FF" cellpadding="0" width="987"
bgcolor="#FFCCFF" bordercolorlight="#FF00FF"
style="border-collapse: collapse; text-align:center"
bordercolor="#111111" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
</quote>

You seem to have Specified a Width of 1238 Pixels for the <div>
& then Centred the Table within that?

So...
That means that if anybody is looking at it with a Browser Window of
more than about 1238 Pixels (+ the Width of the ScrollBar & the Window
Border) - Note, Browser Window Size is what matters & not *Screen*
Size - it will look lop-sided.

In a Window that is more than about 1300 Pixels Wide (allowing for
the ScrollBars etc,), the whole thing appears over to the Left hand
Side. I tried it in varying different Window Sizes, from 800 x 600
through 1024 x 768 & 1280 x 1024 up to 1600 x 1200

It seems fairly obvious that you Designed it using the Size of
*your* Web Bowser Window, which you happen to have Opened up at
Full Screen & that your Screen is 1280 Pixels Wide? - Hence the Width
of 1238 Pixels for that <div>

Remember, not everybody happens to use their Web Browser Open at Full
Screen & also, not everybody happens to have a Screen that is 1280
Pixels Wide.

I think most of the probs with the way that Page Displays are cos
there's a horrendous Mixture of CSS (Cascading StyleSheets) Styles
& InLine HTML Styling, such as FONT & TABLE Tags, which all end up
competing with each other & making it hard for the Web Browser to
decide what to Display! - As well as making it hard to maintain the
HTML Code on the Page & track down any probs.

HTH

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pmj


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