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Netscape 4.7 displaying output incorrectly

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JennyW

JennyW

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Mar 1, 2001
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Hi everyone,

I’ve been developing a test site using IE 5 and 5.5.

I went to test my site in Netscape 4.7 and its format was all messed up.

Here’s a couple problems I came across:

=============================

--NETSCAPE 4.7--
** My Guestbook **

- The ‘Name’ field on the form was been incorrectly re-aligned to the right.

=============================

--NETSCAPE 4.7--
** My Email Form **

- The Email form’s ‘Submit’ button and ‘Name’ field have been incorrectly aligned to the right.

=============================

Does anyone know what I can do to fix these errors that are occurring with Netscape 4.7?

=============================

Thanks for your time,
JennyW
 
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I notice that you have the right table cells set to a width of 100px.

I had a very similar problem the other week with Netscape 4.7 not displaying table data width properly. (I had a uniform table data width of 20% for the right-hand table cells). However, the width only displayed uniformly in IE 5. In Netscape, for no particular reason, some had to be changed to "28%".

(see the website
I found that there was no solution that looked the same in both browsers, so I created two versions of the website and included the following in the header:

<html><head><title></title>

<script LANGUAGE=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>

if (navigator.appName == &quot;Microsoft Internet Explorer&quot;)
{
window.location = &quot;conference.html&quot;

}
</script></center>

<script LANGUAGE=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>

if (navigator.appName == &quot;Netscape&quot;)
{
window.location = &quot;conference1.html&quot;

}







</script>
</head><body>

This directs the user to the proper webpage, depending on the browser they are using. I hope this helps.
 
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Hi,
Thanks for the response.

I actually figured out what the problem was 10 minutes ago. I had to give three <td> tags an alignment value. align=”value”.

===========================

I’m having more problems with this page -->
~ If you view it in IE it looks good.
~ But if you view it in Netscape 4.7 the format is all off.

Each problem area on my test page is surrounded by a <div> tag that looks something like this:

[tt]<div id=&quot;Layer2&quot; style=&quot;position:absolute; left:304px; top:189px; width:143px; height:10px; z-index:155&quot;>[/tt]
Output on screen placed right here
[tt]</div>[/tt]


Is the output of my page messed up because I’m using the <div> tag?
I’ve never had a problem with this in the past.

===========================

Thanks for reading,
JennyW

===========================

Ohh, by the way cactus1000, I’m gonna stay away from making another site just for Netscape users. It’s just too much maintenance and work, besides I heard approximately 90 per cent of internetiers use MS. Regardless, thanks for the post and the idea, but I just need a simple solution to satisfy NS users.
 
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for my experience NC doesn't recognize or doesn't parse properly inline style (your style=&quot;..&quot; in div tag) you have to use <style> or external css files with defined styles
somethink like:

<link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot; href=&quot;mycss.css&quot;>

& in that mycss.css:
#Layer2{
position:absolute;
left:304px;
top:189px;
width:143px;
height:10px;
z-index:155;}

& in your file just write

<div id=&quot;Layer2&quot;>
..

</div>

& defined style would be applyed

but note: onresize all styles are destroyed in netScrap (that is why it's called scrap) & you have to reload your page (these styles apply onload)

hope i made it a bit clearer.. Victor
 
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Hi,

Cactus1000, you wrote:
I think that tables are causing the problem.

You were right, <tables> were causing the majority of my problems. I didn’t follow the instructions in your link, but instead it made me think to make a few adjustments involving tables.

The poll on my page: …contains the only piece of code on my page that uses <tables>…

So what I did was put the <table> at the end of my html. And then I put everything else in the code above the <table>.

Now the page seems to be looking as it should. Netscape still stinks though.

=======================

Vituz,
Thanks for the response.

=======================

Thanks cactus1000,
JennyW
 
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