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netscape compatibility problems

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mgriffith

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Jul 3, 2001
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i'm having some problems with netscape 4 compatibility on a website i'm working on ...
1. the select box above the navigation on the left appears as text in netscape 4
2. there's a strange reaction when i have a <input type=&quot;text&quot;> and then an <input type=&quot;image&quot;> beside each other....if you look at the top right corner, you'll see what i mean...there's an ugly looking box underneath the text box, and the image is vertically offset below the textbox

basically, for problem 1, the dom up to that point looks like:
<html><body><form><table><tr><td><div><p>...
i then have tried inserting just a <select>, and it wouldn't render, so i wrapped it in another form tag, and it still wouldn't...any ideas??

for problem 2, i have
<td align=&quot;right&quot; valign=&quot;center&quot;>
<input type=&quot;text&quot; value=&quot;Search&quot; class=&quot;box&quot; />
<input type=&quot;image&quot; src=&quot;search.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Search&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; />
</td>
where my class for the textbox looks like
INPUT.BOX {
FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;
FONT-SIZE: 8pt;
WIDTH: 100px;
BORDER: 1px #777777 solid;
MARGIN: 2px;
}

there's a bunch of css and whatnot, and there's a ton of stuff going on behind the scenes....if you could just take a look at the source and see if you see anything in particular, it'd be cool

thanks a lot...any suggestions would be great....

p.s. only the top quick links work on the left, the bottom ones are junk mike griffith
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mgriffith@lauren.com
mdg12@po.cwru.edu
 
I haven't looked that deeply into problem 2 but on problem 1, the select box works fine by itself, even when enclosed in <div> tags. So, I thing there's something else before it that's causing you problems.

But before you go to all the trouble remember that Netscape 4 makes up such a very little part of the browser market that many web designers, including me, aren't spending any time trying to write code that supports it. There's always a better way...
 
yeah i'd like to just forget about netscape (especially 4), but this is for my college, and my boss wants to make sure that even the few netscape users are happy

i just can't figure out what could be causing that to not render...oh well i'll keep looking, thanks for the tip mike griffith
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mgriffith@lauren.com
mdg12@po.cwru.edu
 
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