I am hopeful that someone can quickly solve my image alignment issue
when things are just not going right and where my attempts to solve
this alignment issue have all failed.
First of all take a look here...
http://www.cardman.com/switches.html
In MIE this page looks perfect. Unfortunately both Netscape and Opera
show these item photos in the wrong place. For some *unknown* reason
all the photos drop down to align with the green "Don't forget to
include Postage and VAT" box in the left hand column.
This causes the odd effect that any photo above this green box drops
down to below the green box, but any photo that is below this section
is aligned correctly.
So I admit that trying to do photo alignment under HTML (align=left)
was a bad idea. My problem is that the guy who showed me how much
better my site would look under the CSS stylesheet missed out showing
me the CSS code to correctly align these item photos. And since I am
quite new at stylesheets, even after browsing the CSS specification,
then I am currently at a loss on how to correctly align these photos
under CSS.
Well beyond trapping the whole section in a table in an undesirable
dirty fix solution.
My most recent testing has successfully moved the whole item block to
being controlled under CSS. Only problem now is that the problem has
got somewhat worse. As when I define a nice window to dump this item
block in, including an IMG section to control photo placement, then
now the whole damned block (photo and text) drops down below that same
green box.
This tells me that there is some odd CSS pointer that is saying that
any CSS stuff is to be vertically aligned from here. The problem then
is that when the second column was started this pointer did not reset
back to zero.
I think in all this tells me that there is a fault in the original CSS
code that simply did not take into account that there would be item
photos left aligned to the text in this second column.
So since I am now flapping about helplessly and about to go belly-up,
in some fear of pulling apart this original CSS code, then so do I
hope that someone with some actual CSS experience can point out how I
can get these damned photos to appear in the right place.
My prior thanks of course.
Cardman
http://www.cardman.org http://www.cardman.com http://www.cardman.co.uk