IE doesn't show my body background

This is a very strange problem. I feel that the different aspects of this
mistake are related, though. IE does not display my body background or
recognize some of my links as working links. (except for the briefest of
moment as it is loading the page.) The code for the background and the links
are identical in other site pages, but this phenomenon only occurs in IE on the
index page. What on Earth causes that? I do not have the entire site remotely
hosted, yet, but you can see some of my problems at
www.eversnug.com/holmeschiropractic You'll notice that only the landing page
(index.html) manifests the issues. Both drtimbio.html and pageerror.php have
the expected background. I really appreciate your help! If you need more
information I will happily supply it. Also, I can easily post more of the
website if you need a larger picture. Thanks in advance!

We'll have a better chance of spotting the error if you fix these (85)
errors first:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...hiropractic%2F

Maybe, just maybe that will also fix your problem. If not please post back.

--

Walt


"Aaron RH" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

This is a very strange problem. I feel that the different aspects of this
mistake are related, though. IE does not display my body background or
recognize some of my links as working links. (except for the briefest of
moment as it is loading the page.) The code for the background and the
links
are identical in other site pages, but this phenomenon only occurs in IE
on the
index page. What on Earth causes that? I do not have the entire site
remotely
hosted, yet, but you can see some of my problems at
www.eversnug.com/holmeschiropractic You'll notice that only the landing
page
(index.html) manifests the issues. Both drtimbio.html and pageerror.php
have
the expected background. I really appreciate your help! If you need more
information I will happily supply it. Also, I can easily post more of the
website if you need a larger picture. Thanks in advance!

Change this in your CSS:

body {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
background-image:url(background.png);

to this:

body {
background:#80C0DE url(background.png);

Notice I changed the color to one that is similar to your great big BG image
in case images are turned off in browser or the page doesn't load them for
some reason.

Google for the pngfix.js as pre-IE7 browsers don't handle alpha transparency
on png images. The pngfix script works on images but not BG images. Last
but not least, you need to test your page with increased text size. It's a
bit of a mess.


--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com






"Aaron RH" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

This is a very strange problem. I feel that the different aspects of this
mistake are related, though. IE does not display my body background or
recognize some of my links as working links. (except for the briefest of
moment as it is loading the page.) The code for the background and the
links
are identical in other site pages, but this phenomenon only occurs in IE
on the
index page. What on Earth causes that? I do not have the entire site
remotely
hosted, yet, but you can see some of my problems at
www.eversnug.com/holmeschiropractic You'll notice that only the landing
page
(index.html) manifests the issues. Both drtimbio.html and pageerror.php
have
the expected background. I really appreciate your help! If you need more
information I will happily supply it. Also, I can easily post more of the
website if you need a larger picture. Thanks in advance!

Thanks, Walt. Thanks Nancy.

Nancy, I will take your advice and clean up my layout for those who wish to
increase the size of text. I don't know why folks who need larger text don't
either get a bigger monitor or switch to Opera. My page retains ALL of its
absolute positioned layout in Opera! Actually, Firefox (my favorite browser)
is the only one that is a COMPLETE disaster when the font size is increased.
That makes me sad.

For now, though, I did change my background so that if the background image
does not load properly, (which it is STILL not doing) I will at least still
have a similar background color. I incorporated the pngfix.js file, also. I
am happy to say that the blue background is visible, but, sadly the background
image is not. Most importantly, though, the same problem (I believe) is
preventing my "get directions" links from being accessed.

Walt, thanks for turning me on to the validator website. Awesome tool! It
taught me that some of the things that I thought were right, work even though
they are not actually right. I fixed all that I could. There are only 4
errors left. The website says 65, but you'll notice that it only sites lines
119, 120, 121, and 184. Looking at these one at a time you'll see that 119 is
a long hyperlink to Google Maps, 120 is to Yahoo Maps, and 121 is to Mapquest.
Incidentally these are the links that do not work in IE, but I believe that
these "errors is not actually the cause of all of my woes, because the
background and the "request appointment" fields below ALSO do not work even
though they are "error free." Finally, line 184 is not my coding, it is a
tracking script that Yahoo tacks onto the end of all files they host. I can't
control this line, and I believe it is also not the culprit, because the same
errors occur while I test locally. (read: Yahoo script-free.)

You both have been so helpful, I can only hope that you might both feel
disposed to continue helping me shake out this problem.

Again, many thanks.

At 487Kb, I think that great big BG image should be ditched. In a way, IE
is doing you and your site visitors a favor by not loading it.

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/s...nalyze/wso.php


--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com


"Aaron RH" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Thanks, Walt. Thanks Nancy.

Nancy, I will take your advice and clean up my layout for those who wish
to
increase the size of text. I don't know why folks who need larger text
don't
either get a bigger monitor or switch to Opera. My page retains ALL of
its
absolute positioned layout in Opera! Actually, Firefox (my favorite
browser)
is the only one that is a COMPLETE disaster when the font size is
increased.
That makes me sad.

For now, though, I did change my background so that if the background
image
does not load properly, (which it is STILL not doing) I will at least
still
have a similar background color. I incorporated the pngfix.js file, also.
I
am happy to say that the blue background is visible, but, sadly the
background
image is not. Most importantly, though, the same problem (I believe) is
preventing my "get directions" links from being accessed.

Walt, thanks for turning me on to the validator website. Awesome tool!
It
taught me that some of the things that I thought were right, work even
though
they are not actually right. I fixed all that I could. There are only 4
errors left. The website says 65, but you'll notice that it only sites
lines
119, 120, 121, and 184. Looking at these one at a time you'll see that
119 is
a long hyperlink to Google Maps, 120 is to Yahoo Maps, and 121 is to
Mapquest.
Incidentally these are the links that do not work in IE, but I believe
that
these "errors is not actually the cause of all of my woes, because the
background and the "request appointment" fields below ALSO do not work
even
though they are "error free." Finally, line 184 is not my coding, it is a
tracking script that Yahoo tacks onto the end of all files they host. I
can't
control this line, and I believe it is also not the culprit, because the
same
errors occur while I test locally. (read: Yahoo script-free.)

You both have been so helpful, I can only hope that you might both feel
disposed to continue helping me shake out this problem.

Again, many thanks.

Nancy,

I do appreciate your advice. (in fact, you'll even notice that the bg image
is no longer present at all, regardless of the browser used, because I've
removed it.) However, I still need help addressing the problem. I still am
not able to see a background image if I decide to ever use one, but FAR more
important is my links STILL do not work. I am EXTREMELY new to HTML and CSS,
so I really appreciate you teaching me that I should keep my work as light as
possible for friendly loading times, but I still need to find out how to get my
"get directions" links to be accessible in IE. In Firefox, Safari, and Opera
there is no issue. In IE the links are only accessible for a split-second as
the page loads. The moment that the bg image used to disappear was EXACTLY the
moment that the links ceased to be accessible. It is as though suddenly
something entirely transparent loads at a higher z-index over the top of my
"get directions" links. Any chance, Nancy, (or anyone else) that this is
something easy that has been eluding me? Keep in mind that this ONLY effects
IE, and ONLY on my index page.

So that two pages can be fairly compared, I'll temporarily copy the "get
directions" code into the drbenbio.html page. It will work fine there, just as
the background image did, but will continue to only function for a split second
on the index page. What is going ON here?