Image overlaps text in Netscape 4.x

[benpollinger]

Hello there,

I am still having trouble with animage overlapping text in Netscape 4.08. I know it's old, but some of my users will be stuck with it.

The site is

http://www.psyclick.org.uk.

Here's the basic code:

<table>
<tr>
<td class=&quot;menu&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;>
<img src=&quot;images/psyclick.gif&quot; align=&quot;middle&quot; /><br />
<div class=&quot;indent&quot;>Menut item 1<br />
[etc]

Changing or removing the align value makes no difference. All is well in newer browsers, and it checks out as valid XHTML/CSS on the W3C validator.

Any ideas anyone? I'd really like to make this thing work!

cheers,
Ben

 

[BDNFLNC]

What is the &quot;/&quot; doing in there everywhere?

Try getting rid of that.

<table>
<tr>
<td class=&quot;menu&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;>
<img src=&quot;images/psyclick.gif&quot; align=&quot;middle&quot;><br>
<div class=&quot;indent&quot;>Menut item 1<br>
[etc] -----------------------------------------------
These are endless galaxies which are yours.
You can journey to infinity
through the endless passages of the cosmos.
Even better. This all belongs to you.
This is your mind.

 

[xutopia]

ok I am starting to get quite annoyed here.

First off Netscape 4 is less than 2% of users across the board and Netscape 6 is free to download for anyone.

Check

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

or

http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm

or

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2002/October/browser.php

or even if you wish

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

Secondly <br /> is XHTML. Understood by all browsers that I know off but perhaps not Netscape 4. This is a standard supposed to help us so don't tell people to remove that! Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[benpollinger]

Hello, and thanks for your replies.

I tried changing /> to >, but it made no difference to Netscape 4.

Thanks for the links about stats on browser usage. It is heartening to see old Netscapes on their way out.

However, going on the feedback I have received on the look of the site, I suspect that more than 2% of my readership are stuck with older browsers, and/or don't know how to update them. Most of my readers work in the UK National Health Service (NHS), where computer maintenance is rarely a priority.

I had hoped this image/text problem would be fairly trivial to fix. Perhaps I will give up fighting with old Netscape and add some info on newer (more) standards-compliant browsers.

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,
Ben

 

[benpollinger]

I finally sorted this one with a bit of help from the folk at siteexperts.com

The <td> for the menu had class=&quot;menu&quot;, which included a lineheight. I moved the lineheight to other classes already in use, and now things are usable in NS4. It doesn't look too pretty, but everything is at least readable.