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!DOCTYPE, position:relative, and rendering problems! oh my!

Sent by Kate Shorey - Comcast on 5 October 2005 00:12


Wow,
Writing CSS for a WOWIII website?  Cool! (Do you play?)

(I am a CSS developer.  I also play WOW and now Guild Wars. )

There is a strict use of code for each unique doctype.  Would you post the 
full doctype to the group?  Also know that IE does not render background 
images the same way that FireFox (Mozilla) does.  Check unitypond.net in 
Mozilla and IE to see the differences.  I used the background image in the 
header.  In one browser you see a boat on a lake, and in the other browser, 
you just see some funky (if you're lucky) text, and a plain background.

As for your text-aligns, there are several things going on here.  I am sure 
one of the experienced people on this list can give you the specifics, but 
let me point to a few places for you to start:

1. You have positioned body and container differently.  This is is where 
your two browsers are going to react differently.  In Mozilla Firefox, the 
page has done exactly as you have instructed and positioned the banner image 
top:0, left:0.  The clever part is in IE when it didn't listen to your 
instruction, but rather listened to your intention and stayed within the 
div.

2. I believe you are missing character encoding or something in the 
html/head tags.  Check the W3C spec for details.

3. Your code is very orderly and impressive - should make it very accessible 
to the pros to help you - good job!

4. If that guild is accepting "noobs" I might check them out.  My Id is 
MyOldNavySweatr and my alternate email is [EMAIL-REMOVED]  ;-)

Cheers and good luck -  stay motivated on the CSS - there is a ton to learn 
and it can be very rewarding!

Kate
http://urlygrl.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Gooch" [EMAIL-REMOVED]>
To: [EMAIL-REMOVED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:02 PM
Subject: [css-d] !DOCTYPE, position:relative, and rendering problems! oh my!


> Hello all, I'm pretty new to this group, and to CSS in general. I'm a 
> quick learner but I'm stuck at a couple of things.
>
> First off, whenever I use a !DOCTYPE tag in my pages, they stop rendering 
> properly. I've tried both strict and transitonal, to no avail. 
> Specifically what goes bad is my background image stops repeating as it 
> should, and I get only a portion of the image displayed once at the top of 
> the page. The tags I'm using to get the centered repeat are 
> background-repeat:repeat-y; bacckground-position:center.   Any ideas?
>
> Second, to get a centered page, I'm using  text-align:center  for the 
> body, and  position:relative  for the container module. This renders 
> perfectly in IE6, but in Firefox the container module aligns right.
>
> Are these problems related, and what can I do? Thanks in advance for any 
> tips you can toss my way.
>   Here are the links in question in case you want to review my code:
> http://www.legacyofpainguild.com
> http://www.legacyofpainguild.com/master.css
>
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