How do I fix this?

[Prof. Marvel]

I'm doing this site for friends. They're telling me the main box is centered
on one of their computers,. but not the other. I know the site has a bunch
of validation errors and I plan to fix each, but I'd just like to know if
anyone can spot why the site is displaying two different ways on IE and
what's the quick fix.

thanks

Paul

www.nmrfh.com

 

[J Briggs]

I'm doing this site for friends. They're telling me the main box is centered
on one of their computers,. but not the other. I know the site has a bunch
of validation errors and I plan to fix each, but I'd just like to know if
anyone can spot why the site is displaying two different ways on IE and
what's the quick fix.

thanks

Paul

www.nmrfh.com

Which image is it exactly? I notice that some of your images are
centered using style-sheets. It would probably be better to use HTML
center tags instead as these will be more widely supported by
browsers.

eg
<center><img src="......"></center>

Jonathan

 

[PeterMcC]

Which image is it exactly? I notice that some of your images are
centered using style-sheets. It would probably be better to use HTML
center tags instead as these will be more widely supported by
browsers.

eg
<center><img src="......"></center>

That may not be terribly sound advice.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Quoth the raven named Prof. Marvel:

I'm doing this site for friends. They're telling me the main box is centered
on one of their computers,. but not the other. I know the site has a bunch
of validation errors and I plan to fix each, but I'd just like to know if
anyone can spot why the site is displaying two different ways on IE and
what's the quick fix.

www.nmrfh.com

Besides the centering, you need to compress your images. The picture
of the funeral home (center-3b.jpg) is a 54KB download. Simply by
resaving it using PSP, I reduced it to 15KB.

You could also turn your <pre> into a list using <ul><li> and the text
would not overshoot the content area. And, supply its own bullets.

 

[Prof. Marvel]

This is interesting. My people are telling me the white box is not centered
properly and none of you guys have seen that. All the other stuff I know
about, but the white page is not centered correctly on the gray background,
is what they're saying. Moreover, a quick check in Netscape 7.1 shows this
to be the case. Meanwhile, IE shows it centered correctly in my computer at
al resolutions.

What's going on with their IE view?

M.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Quoth the raven named Prof. Marvel:

This is interesting. My people are telling me the white box is not centered
properly and none of you guys have seen that. All the other stuff I know
about, but the white page is not centered correctly on the gray background,
is what they're saying. Moreover, a quick check in Netscape 7.1 shows this
to be the case. Meanwhile, IE shows it centered correctly in my computer at
al resolutions.

Try adding to .mainbox style
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

What's going on with their IE view?

IE is wrong, interpreting your width: 80% as being centered. <g> Why
do you want to waste 20% of the visitor's canvas?

On the history page, the photos of the three dudes looked squished.
Are you misinterpreting the height and width of the actual images?

Look at the merchandise page with Netscape or Mozilla with an 800x600
browser window.

I don't see your state or province listed anywhere. Where are you?

Please don't top-post. Thanks.

 

[Richard]

I'm doing this site for friends. They're telling me the main box is
centered
on one of their computers,. but not the other. I know the site has a
bunch
of validation errors and I plan to fix each, but I'd just like to know
if
anyone can spot why the site is displaying two different ways on IE
and
what's the quick fix.


www.nmrfh.com

http://www.1-large-world.com/images/funeral.jpg

That's what I see using IE 6.

The different views might be the way the settings are in each.

 

[David Graham]

Quoth the raven named Prof. Marvel:

Try adding to .mainbox style
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

As IE5 and IE5.5 don't understand the above, you will have to wrap the
..mainbox div like this

<div style="text-align: center;">
<div class="mainbox">
<div class="title"><IMG SRC="images/11111.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="626"
HEIGHT="95" ALIGN="bottom" ALT=""></div>
</div> <!-- close the wrapper div -->

These older browsers treat block level elements as inline elements, hence
text-align will have an effect on a div.
HTH
David

 

[David Graham]

As IE5 and IE5.5 don't understand the above, you will have to wrap the
.mainbox div like this

<div style="text-align: center;">
<div class="mainbox">
<div class="title"><IMG SRC="images/11111.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="626"
HEIGHT="95" ALIGN="bottom" ALT=""></div>
</div> <!-- close the mainbox div -->

 

[informant]

http://www.1-large-world.com/images/funeral.jpg

That's what I see using IE 6.

The different views might be the way the settings are in each.

Nobody cares what you see, Mr. Bullis. When *will* you get that through your
K00K skull?


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