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help please! template fine in firefox, messed up in ie!

hi,

my new blog template looks fine in firefox, but in ie the rightmost navbar is stuck somewhere in the middle and i can't figure out how to make it look correct in ie. plus there seems to be some extra space on the right side of the template as well.

my code is messy as i am self taught but i can post it if needed. you can see my template at http://thesomnambulist.blogspot.com

thanks for any help.
Dec 23 '06 #1
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drhowarddrfine
7,435 Expert 4TB
Your doctype is incorrect and IE goes into quirks mode. Use this one:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

Then validate your code and see where you stand.
Dec 23 '06 #2
hi! thanks for the fast response. i'm not sure how to validate my code - i don't know much html, just enough to modify my template.

i tried what you just suggested, but now the page takes a very long time to load in ie...so long i can't see the right navbar at all anymore. it's been loading for about five minutes like it's waiting for something, and the rightmost navbar doesn't show at all so far.

i think there may also be an issue with where i put this outermost right navbar - i just stuck it into the table at the top near the starting <body> tag. i did not make this template - i just tried to modify it by adding the extra navbar.

still looks fine in firefox.
Dec 23 '06 #3
drhowarddrfine
7,435 Expert 4TB
HTML Validator
CSS Validator

Unfortunately, with 477 errors and little html knowledge, it may be a tough go. A lot of the errors are caused by the wrong doctype. Many of them might get corrected with some small fixes, too. But you need to start somewhere and using a proper doctype and validating to check for errors is the first small step.

You are right. IE6 and IE7 both take forever to load the page for some reason.
Dec 23 '06 #4
AricC
1,892 Expert 1GB
Change your doctype to strict. Then start fixing the errors from one of the sites listed above.
Dec 23 '06 #5

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