Top posting is one of the things that keeps people from helping you.
Please look it up or Google it or ask somebody what it means. I have
fixed this for you again.
EA wrote:
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"John Hosking" <Jo**@Hosking.name.DROPTHE.invalidwrote in message
news:45********@news.bluewin.ch...
>>Please don't top post; it makes it hard to follow the flow of discussion.
I have moved your reply down for you this time.
I *knew* I had said something about this...
>[back-and-forth snipped]
My idea is that you're not being very careful in what you're doing. I also
see the problem with newTest.htm in IE6, but that's a page which includes
neither Els's nor Martin's suggestions. Both their tips helped when I
tried them separately in FF. Did they help *you* when you viewed them in
Firefox?
You may have been right in that I have 'experimented' myself, trying to use
the advice given to solve my problem.
http://www.doublesix.plus.com/Examples/Test.htm
Using the above version I have tested this in IE 6.0 and Firefox. I
actually have no idea the relevance of whether this words in Firefox because
I said I was working with IE 6.0. However maybe to people more clever than
I, testing in Firefox may mean something.
Firstly, the presumption is that, since you are authoring for the WWW,
you can expect visitors using Firefox (and other non-IE browsers) to
show up. You would want to know what /they/ see, is the presumption.
Secondly, IE is *known* to be special, so testing in, say, a second
browser might give you (and us) more info.
Thirdly, I edited your CSS on your site using the suggestions from Els
and Martin using Firefox, because Firefox has a Web Developer Toolbar
addon which lets me do this easily. (IE has a similar addon, too; you
ought to get it.) Now, when I tried the suggestions *in my Firefox*, it
worked, so if we see that it works for *you in Firefox*, then we can say
that we are talking about the same thing. Since I only see the code on
your site *without* the suggested changes, I can't know what you're
looking at.
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In Firefox I get something better than IE, but not something I would be
happy with if this was my target browser.
There is no "target browser" on the World Wide Web, is there?
yes I lose the line under the
'selected' tab, but there are now small gaps (on the bottom line of TopNav
before the 'Tables' tab
Here's why: You have an #Outer div containing two other divs, #TopNav
and #Content. All three are assigned a width of 800px. But div#Outer has
a border of 3px (making it 806px wide) and the other two divs have 2px
borders (making then 804px wide). Change the border for #Outer to 2px,
and your problem goes away.
and either side of the selected 'History' tab. As
mentioned above I am not targeting the Firefox browser as I cannot tell my
users to us this because it is 'better' the IE.
I cannot fathom this statement. It's true you can't require your users
to use Firefox; they will tell *you* what they want to use (well
actually, they will just use it). And "IE is better"
(paraphrased/translated to English)? Global experience does not agree,
and besides, that's in conflict with your statement "In Firefox I get
something better than IE" above. Whatever are you talking about?
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In IE I do not get the desired effect as the line still appears under the
selected tab. Can anyone help me?
I'm *trying*.
--
John
