Problems with Netscape 6 (MAC) and not setting height

[stevet26]

Hi All

I have produced a site which uses divs floated into position. The site is perfect in all browsers except for Netscape 6 mac.

All of the divs are fixed height, apart from the maincontent one. I have not set the height for this div as it's height will be determined by the content held within it.

However in netscape 6 mac the footer layer come up over the top of the maincontent div. It is as if Netscape 6 ignores the content. Is this the case?

Has anyone else experienced this and if so how did you solve it?

Any help on this would be much appreiated.

Thanking you all in advance.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Try giving the footer a style of "clear:both". If that fails try adding a "hidden" element right at the end of your mainContent div:

<div style="clear:both; height:0px; overflow:hidden; font-size:0px; line-height:0px;"></div>

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[BabyJeffy]

As an aside... the most recent and currently final version of Netscape for MacOSX is version 7.1 (aka 7.1X)... so version 6 is indeed going back quite some way in terms of versions.

There are so few users on Netscape 6 (which was also quirky and buggy for floating content support) that it's probably not worth spending too long trying to fix. I know it's nice to make it look the same as far back as you can... but sometimes you need to be reminded how relevant it is - that's all

Here is a matrix of Mac browsers that I use when developing...

This test suite matrix for Mac users shows the most recent versions of all the main browsers:
IE 5.23 (final version of IE for the Mac)
Netscape 7.1X (final version of Netscape for the Mac)
Firefox 1.5.x
Safari 2.0.x
Opera 8.52
Camino 1.0

If you wanted to be a little more proactive on backward support for the Mac, I would recoomend adding these browser versions to your test matrix:
Safari 1.2.3
Firefox 1.07 (final version of 1.0.x)
Opera 7.5.4u1 (final version of 7)

Cheers,
Jeff

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[stevet26]

Hi

Thanks very much for taking the time out to reply.

I have tried Dan's suggestions, but alas no success To be honest, I think it is practically impossible.

I think that I will have to take into account what Jeff has mentioned as Netscape 6 just does not seem to work like the othe browsers.