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**zenovia** · Apr 3, 2009, 09:30 PM

As a finicky person I can not help but to notice that the banner contains not just females.

**llc** · Apr 3, 2009, 09:36 PM

It was important to the client to show diversity.
There are a few brave men who join!

**PitbullMean** · Apr 3, 2009, 09:51 PM

Please Validate your code http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0

**Fisher** · Apr 3, 2009, 11:05 PM

You don't need any of the position:fixed or position:relative stuff. Get rid of it all.

After you do this, you'll need to add something to the end of your code to clear the floats and show your background in FF. I used an empty div for example.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>LWV Home</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta content="M Montgomery" name="author">
<link href="LWV_files/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
  <div id="head1"> </div>
  <div id="head2"> </div>
  <div id="bluebar">
    <p>Knoxville / Knox County</p>
  </div>
  <div id="menubar">
    <ul>
      <li><a class="current" href="http://www.lwvknoxville.org/index.htm">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.lwvknoxville.org/about.htm">About</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.lwvknoxville.org/contact.htm">Contact</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.lwvknoxville.org/donate.htm">Donate</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.lwvknoxville.org/join.htm">Join</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.lwvknoxville.org/involve.htm">Get Involved!</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.lwvknoxville.org/issue.htm">League Issues</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.lwvknoxville.org/news.htm">News and Events</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.lwvknoxville.org/elections.htm">Government and Elections</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
  <div id="main">
    <div id="content">
      <p class="p1">Welcome to the League of Women Voters, Knoxville / Knox County, Tennessee.</p>
      <p class="p1">The League is a non-partisan organization — we do not support or oppose any   candidates or political parties.</p>
      <div id="info">
        <h3>Upcoming Events</h3>
        <p class="p1"> April 21, 2009, 5:30 PM</p>
        <p class="p2"> Topic: National Voter Compact<br>
          Location: Church of the Savior<br>
          934 Weisgarber Road, Knoxville, Tennessee</p>
        <p class="p1">May 19, 2009, 5:30 PM</p>
        <p class="p2">Topic: Annual Meeting<br>
          Location: Beck Cultural Center<br>
        </p>
        <p></p>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div id="rt_bar">
      <div id="section1" align="center"><a href="http://www.vote411.org/" target="_blank"><img src="LWV_files/vote411.png" alt="Vote 411" width="140" border="0" height="34"></a></div>
      <div id="section2" align="center"><img src="LWV_files/ca.png" alt="Citizen Academy" width="99" height="28"></div>
      <div id="section2a" align="center"> <a href="http://www.knoxcounty.org/election/" target="_blank">Register to Vote</a> </div>
      <div id="section3">
        <script type="text/javascript" src="LWV_files/CAjsform.js"></script>
        <form method="get" action="http://capwiz.com/stickers/" onSubmit="return verify(this);">
          <input name="dir" value="lwv" type="hidden">
          <input name="lvl" value="C" type="hidden">
          <input class="width" size="5" name="azip" maxlength="5" type="text">
          <input class="right" src="LWV_files/go_button.png" type="image">
        </form>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div id="footer">
    <p class="left">League of Women Voters of Knoxville / Knox County, P.O. Box 31825, Knoxville, Tennessee 37930-1825 </p>
    <p class="right"><a href="mailto:[email protected]">E-Mail LWVKK</a></p>
  </div>
  <div style="clear:both"></div> 
</div>
</body>
</html>

Code:

/* Document Styles */
body {
	background: #ccc;
	font: normal 10px/16px "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
	color: #666;
	margin: 25px;
	text-align: center; /* For IE */
}
/* Container Styles */
#wrapper {
	width: 720px;
	border: 15px solid #fff;
	margin: 0 auto;
	padding: 0;
	text-align: left; /* For IE */
	background-color: #fff;
}
/* Banner Styles */
#head1 {
	width: 720px;
	height: 20px;
	background-color: #CE1141;
}
#head2 {
	width: 720px;
	height: 82px;
	border-top: 1px solid #fff;
	background-image: url(../_images/diversity2.png);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
#bluebar {
	width: 704px;
	padding: 3px 8px;
	text-align: left;
	border-top: 1px solid #fff;
	background: #147;
	margin: 0;
}
#bluebar p {
	color: #fff;
	margin: 0;
}
/* Menu Styles */
#menubar {
	width: 170px;
	float: left;
	padding: 0 10px;
	margin: 20px 0 0 0;
}
#menubar ul {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style: none;
}
#menubar li {
	padding: 3px 0 5px 0;
}
#menubar a {
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #009900;
	text-decoration: none;
	font-weight: bold;
}
#menubar a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #00CC00;
}
#menubar a.current {
	color: #005A9C;
}
/* Main Styles */
#main {
	width: 528px;
	float: right;
	margin: 20px 0 0 0;
}
/* Center Bar Styles */
#content {
	width: 314px;
	float: left;
	padding: 0 10px;
	border-right: 2px dotted #ccc;
	border-left: 2px dotted #ccc;
}
#content p {
	margin: 0 0 5px 0;
}
#content p.p1 {
	font-size: 13px;
	line-height: 20px;
}
#content p.p2 {
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 15px;
}
#content h3 {
	color: #E4073C;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: normal;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	margin: 30px 0 5px 0;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
}
#content a {
	color: #6291D9;
	text-decoration: none;
}
#content a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}
/* Right Bar Styles */
#rt_bar {
	width: 170px;
	float: right;
	padding: 0 10px;
}
#section1 {
	border-bottom: 2px dotted #ccc;
	padding: 0 0 10px 0;
}
#section2 {
	border-bottom: 2px dotted #ccc;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 8px 0;
}
#section3 {
	border-bottom: 2px dotted #ccc;
	margin: 0px;
	background-image: url(../_images/writeto.png);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: center;
	height: 75px;
	padding: 8px 0;
}
#section3 input.right {
	float: right;
	margin-top: 41px;
	margin-right: 15px;
}
#section3 input.width {
	width: 38px;
	float: left;
	margin: 43px 0 0 60px;
}
#rt_bar a {
	color: #E52337;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 11px;
	text-decoration: none;
}
/* Footer Styles */
#footer {
	width: 704px;
	background: #147;
	text-align: left;
	float: left;
	padding: 3px 8px;
	margin: 20px 0 0 0;
}
#footer p {
	color: #fff;
	margin: 0;
}
#footer a {
	color: #fff;
	text-decoration: none;
}
#footer a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}
#footer p.left {
	float: left;
}
#footer p.right {
	float: right;
}

Note:you'll have to change some of your image paths back.

**llc** · Apr 4, 2009, 10:27 AM

Another assist?

I tried something similar with the next page but I'm still having problems with formatting. When I remove all the position:relative, position:absolute statements the formatting falls apart. CSS file attached.
Here is link to htm file w/ position statements removed:

www.lwvknoxville.org/about.htm

Attached Files

level2.css (3.1 KB, 73 views)

**Fisher** · Apr 4, 2009, 10:53 AM

You still have all the positioning in your level2.css file:

Code:

/* Document Styles */
body {
	background: #ccc;
	font: normal 10px/16px "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
	color: #666;
	margin: 25px;
	text-align: center; /* For IE */
}
/* Container Styles */
#wrapper {
	[COLOR="Red"]position: fixed;[/COLOR]
	width: 720px;
	border: 15px solid #fff;
	margin: 0 auto;
	padding: 0;
	text-align: left; /* For IE */
	background-color: #fff;
}
/* Banner Styles */
#head1 {
	width: 720px;
	height: 20px;
	background-color: #CE1141;
	[COLOR="Red"]position: relative;[/COLOR]
}
#head2 {
	width: 720px;
	height: 82px;
	border-top: 1px solid #fff;
	background-image: url(../_images/diversity2.png);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	[COLOR="Red"]position: relative;[/COLOR]
}
#bluebar {
	width: 704px;
	padding: 3px 8px;
	text-align: left;
	border-top: 1px solid #fff;
	background: #147;
	margin: 0;
	[COLOR="Red"]position: relative;[/COLOR]
}
#bluebar p {
	color: #fff;
	margin: 0;
}

/* Menu Styles */
#menubar {
	width: 170px;
	[COLOR="Red"]position: relative;[/COLOR]
	float: left;
	padding: 0 10px;
	margin: 20px 0 0 0;
}
#menubar ul {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style: none;
}
#menubar li {
	padding: 3px 0 5px 0;
}
#menubar a {
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #009900;
	text-decoration: none;
	font-weight: bold;
}
#menubar a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #00CC00;
}
#menubar a.current {
	color: #005A9C;
}


/* Main Styles */
#main {
	width: 508px;
	[COLOR="Red"]position: relative;[/COLOR]
	float: right;
	margin: 20px 0 0 0;
	padding: 0 10px;
	border-left: 2px dotted #ccc;
}

#main p {
	margin: 0 0 10px 0;
}
#main p.p1 {
	font-size: 13px;
	line-height: 20px;
}
#main p.p2 {
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 15px;
}
#main h2 {
	color: #005A9C;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	margin: 0px 0 5px 0;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
}
#main h3 {
	color: #E4073C;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: normal;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	margin: 15px 0 5px 0;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
}
#main h4 {
	color: #333333;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: normal;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	margin: 12px 0 5px 0;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
}
#main a {
	color: #6291D9;
	text-decoration: none;
}
#main a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}
/* --------------------- bullet list styles ------------------------ */
#main ul {
	list-style-type:disc;
	margin: 0px 0px 12px 10px;
	padding-left: 15px;
}

#main ul li.link {
	padding-left: 3px;
	padding-bottom: 5px;
}
#main ul li.text {
	line-height: 16px;
	font-size: 12px;
	padding-left: 3px;
	padding-top: 4px;
	padding-bottom: 4px;
	letter-spacing: 0.03em;
	color: #666666;
}

#main ul li.lastlink {
	line-height: 18px;
	font-size: 12px;
	padding-left: 3px;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
}



/* Footer Styles */
#footer {
	width: 704px;
	background: #147;
	text-align: left;
	float: left;
	padding: 3px 8px;
	margin: 20px 0 0 0;
	[COLOR="Red"]position: relative;[/COLOR]
}
#footer p {
	color: #fff;
	margin: 0;
}
#footer a {
	color: #fff;
	text-decoration: none;
}
#footer a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}
#footer p.left {
	float: left;
}
#footer p.right {
	float: right;
}

Remove it and your page works fine.

Edit: Perhaps you just missed one of them when you tried taking it out. Your about page works fine with the css file you attached. Make sure you get them all.

**llc** · Apr 4, 2009, 11:30 AM

thanks for the help and thank you for being so very patient!
Lara

**Actinia** · Apr 5, 2009, 11:40 AM

The reasons why you do not get any scroll bars is that the page content fits on the screen without them. This will depend on how much screen area is available, which will vary between browsers and how many extra toolbars you have. With my FF (with extra toolbars), the scrollbars appear, but if I maximise (using F11) they disappear.

John

**Excavator** · Apr 5, 2009, 01:08 PM

Hello llc,
Good job on getting all that validated! Seems to work fine here on IE7, IE8 and FF3.

On pages with longer content, your #wrapper gets pushed over the width of the scrollbar... about 17px if I remember.
The usual fix for that is to force a scrollbar, even on pages that are not long enough to require one. That stops the page from seeming to jump to the side when you click from a short page to a long page.

To have a scrollbar on all pages, add this bit in red to the top of your CSS -

Code:

/* Document Styles */
[COLOR="Red"]html, body {
height: 100.1%;[/COLOR]
	background: #ccc;
	font: normal 10px/16px "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
	color: #666;
	margin: 25px;
	text-align: center; /* For IE */
}

Sometimes, combining the styling for html and body can cause things to repeat... you don't have a background image there but I've seen IE8 do some unexpected things from this. You can separate them like this and it will still work -

Code:

/* Document Styles */
[COLOR="Red"]html {
height: 100.1%;
}
body {
height: 100.1%;[/COLOR]	background: #ccc;
	font: normal 10px/16px "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
	color: #666;
	margin: 25px;
	text-align: center; /* For IE */
}

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