Why does link to another page not workin Firefox?

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Are you using z-indez, floating, or positioning elements? We can't tell you much without the complete markup or a link to the page.

Thanks, Death

Nov 5 '10 #2

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It's in a table but there no positioning of styles for it.

Nov 5 '10 #3

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Like I said, we can't tell you much without the complete markup or a link to the page.

Regards, Death

Nov 5 '10 #4

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Here is a larger piece of the code.

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 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" id="main">

  <tr valign="top">

    <td width='100%'>

      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">

        <tr valign='top'>

          <td width="100%" align="left">

            <h1>Site Name</h1>

          </td>

        </tr>

        <tr valign='top'>

          <td width="100%" align="center">

            <a href="http://www.mysite.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mysite.com</a>

            <br />

            <br />

          </td>

        </tr>

        <tr valign='top'>

          <td width="100%" align="Center"> 

            <div class="img_embed" style="width:330px;">   

              <img border='0' alt='' src="/images/myimage.jpg"   hspace='10' vspace='0' />        

            </div> 

          </td>

        </tr>

        <tr valign='top'>

          <td width="100%" align="left">

            About my site.<br />

            <br />

            More about my site.

          </td>

        </tr>

        <tr valign='top'>

          <td width="100%" align="left">

            <br/>

          </td>

        </tr>

      </table>

    </td>

  </tr>

</table>

Nov 5 '10 #5

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You should never use tables for layout. Also, your code is deprecated.

I'm not having the problem in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or Opera, and I have no idea why you are.

Emty your cache.
Enter safe mode to see if an extension is causing the problem.
Update Firefox

Thanks, Death

Nov 5 '10 #6

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I know that I should never use tables for layout but I spent many days trying to get absolulty positioned DIVs that would expand for the content and never could manage it so I had to reluctantly use tables.

If you can tell me how to make my DIVs expand if the content requires it then I would rather use them.

Nov 5 '10 #7

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I'm also aware of the depricated code. I created this website a long time ago and it's something that recently stopped working. I'm working on bringing out an update where the code is more up to date.

Nov 5 '10 #8

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Ah, what kind of data will the divisions be holding? By default they should expand to hold the data. Were you using a doctype? As I said before I have no idea why you're experience this, but I would be more than happy to help with the division issue. this will be my last reply for a few hours (my MacBook has 3% charge left and my new charger hasn't come in yet).

Thanks, Death

Nov 5 '10 #9

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The division we be holding normal HTML data. I allow clients to enter the data and store it in a table and then retrieve it from the table so most of the time it's only HTML content that is put into the page using php.

The DOCTYPE is for XHTML 1.0 Tranistional. I look forward to your reply but I don't suppose I'll be able to see it until Monday anyway.

Nov 5 '10 #10

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If the user is entering the code into a textarea then you would only need the textarea to accommodate its size for the amount of code. HTML and CSS can't do this alone, but add a little jQuery and it can.

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 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    <head>

        <title></title>

        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
 
        <!-- jQuery library -->

        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.3.min.js"></script>
 
        <!-- jQuery for autogrow textarea -->

        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://onehackoranother.com/projects/jquery/jquery-grab-bag/javascripts/jquery.autogrow-textarea.js"></script>

        <style type="text/css">

            textarea {

                line-height: 1;

                font-size: 100%;

                width: 100%;

            }

        </style>

    </head>

    <body>
 
    <div id="container">

    <textarea cols="" rows="6"></textarea> 

    </div>
 
    <!-- javascript snippet to make it work -->

    <script type='text/javascript'> 

          $(function() {

            $('textarea').autogrow();

          });

    </script>
 
    </body>

</html>

The jquery.autogrow-textarea.js can be found here.

Regards, Death

Nov 5 '10 #11

drhowarddrfine

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The problem will be that the link is covered up by something; I'd bet the image is doing it but it could be anything.

Nov 5 '10 #12

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@drhowarddrfine
I tried replicating it with at least 7 different images with dimensions up to 3888 x 2592, and couldn't get it to replicate the problem in any browser (couldn't try IE because I don't have it, but the problem is in FF). I've never used tables for layout, but I'm still puzzled as to why it's behaving that way.

Nov 5 '10 #13

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It's not the height of the text area that is the issue. The textarea is on the backend. What I need to be able to do is output the data on the front end and I couldn't get the DIV to grow if there was a lot of information. I need to nest DIVs.
I'm not making any sense either but I'll try and come up with something that explains it better.

Nov 8 '10 #14

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No, that makes sense. By default the divisions should adjust to the content. Of course this all depends on styling. Could you try and create a sample of what you want it to do with divisions, so we will have something to work with.

Thanks, Death

Nov 8 '10 #15

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I'll have a go. It make take a little while. I'll post back when I have something.

Nov 8 '10 #16

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I'm getting a problem similar to this with a form. I can't seem to get any of the boxes or button to focus. I have to tab through to get to them.

Is there something up with Firefox?

Nov 16 '10 #17

MathiasPoulsen

In response to your problems with your div not expanding i can tell you that if you have made a e.g "height: 200px" in your stylesheet it will not expand automatically. You will need to put a "overflow: auto;" on the very same div which your content is within, this will make a scrollbar. If you want to avoid the scrollbar then delete the height attribute.

Take care, Mathias.

Nov 16 '10 #18

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I think there's an image on top. I get the same problem in IE, Sarari and Google Chrome although not on Opera. Is there anyway to sort this out possible by changing the z-index. I tried changeing the z-index of the table that held the image to 7 and the table that held the form to 1 but didn't seem to make any difference.

Nov 16 '10 #19

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I really couldn't tell you without the code or a link to a test page.

Regards, Death

Nov 16 '10 #20

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In terms of divisions, what I really want to do is have a divsion at the top the contain the header and main meny for example. Then I want two side by side which could contain the sub menu and main content. I've got not problems with that.
What I really need to know how to put the footer at the bottom when the main content (and the sub menu) can be different sizes.

Dec 9 '10 #21

Link to run script and link to page

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Start another thread for that and post what code you have now or a link to your test page.

Regards, Death

Dec 9 '10 #22

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