css layout (ff1 and ie6)

[skeeterbug]

please check out...

http://www.geocities.com/operationsengineer1/test.htm

1. how come ff1 and ie6 render the transition between my tabs
differently? ie6 puts the tabs on top of the blue div while ff1 drops
the tabs just below the top of the blue div.

2. how come the tabs don't start at the left of the page in both ie6
and ff1?

tia...

[Eric Meyer]

> 2. how come the tabs don't start at the left of the page in both ie6

and ff1?

IE is too kind, he lets any piece of crappy code. Replace

<div style: clear:both></div>

by:

<div style="clear: both;"></div>

Your code is a real mess, beside all the non-compliant junk pasted by the
Geocities server, you put a header tag in the neck (between the head and
body). You also put redundant useless span tags.
Please check out this link:
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/writing.html
Good luck!

Eric.

[skeeterbug]

eric and all, mea culpa. sorry for the bad form. i should have waited
and posted it correctly rather than try to rush it.

please check out:

http://www.geocities.com/operationsengineer1/test.htm

i'm curious why the tabs are indented to the right a fixed amount. i
have other questions, but i need to re-create it in a simplified script
version.

at least you now know why the <span> tags were placed in there. ;-)

also notice that the tabs sit right above the bluebar <div> - this is
how it should be. i'll break it so that ie6 puts 1em of space between
the tabs and the bluebar <div> and repost the code.

tia...


Eric Meyer wrote:

2. how come the tabs don't start at the left of the page in both ie6 and ff1?
IE is too kind, he lets any piece of crappy code. Replace

<div style: clear:both></div>

by:

<div style="clear: both;"></div>

Your code is a real mess, beside all the non-compliant junk pasted by

the Geocities server, you put a header tag in the neck (between the head and body). You also put redundant useless span tags.
Please check out this link:
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/writing.html
Good luck!

Eric.