Re: Doctype-Deklaration - help please!

#1

It cut it off, sorry, here is the rest:

The relationship between the width and padding seems to be causing me a
problem. For example, I would like my #contentleft to be 299px wide. I
give #contentleft a width of 219px and padding of 40px 40px 0px 40px.
Looks great on some browsers, while others seem to display the
#contentleft as actually 219px wide. Is there a workaround for this?
Does this have to do with my Doctype-Deklaration?

You can see the page I am having problems with here:
http://www.agilitygraphics.com/clients/bdc/pages/featured.html

The css is here:
http://www.agilitygraphics.com/clients/bdc/css/browman.css

Thanks a lot for any help,
Brian

Example:
#contentleft
{
width:219px;
height:600px;
padding: 40px 40px 0px 40px;
float:left;
background:#F2F2F2;
}

#2

..oO(Brian)

Quote:

The relationship between the width and padding seems to be causing me a
problem. For example, I would like my #contentleft to be 299px wide. I
give #contentleft a width of 219px and padding of 40px 40px 0px 40px.
Looks great on some browsers, while others seem to display the
#contentleft as actually 219px wide.

Which browsers? In IE5/Win it will always look strange, in IE6 and
recent browsers it should work.

Quote:

Is there a workaround for this?
Does this have to do with my Doctype-Deklaration?

Yes. It's standards mode vs. quirks mode. Currently your page is
rendered in standards mode (how it's supposed to be).

Quote:

You can see the page I am having problems with here:
http://www.agilitygraphics.com/clients/bdc/pages/featured.html

Looks at least acceptable in Opera and FF. You're relying on microscopic
9px fonts, which is very hard to read. When fonts are resized to
something more readable then texts start to overlap.

http://mfesser.de/temp/bdc-o.jpg [59K]

After enabling accessibility options in IE 6 the page breaks entirely.

http://mfesser.de/temp/bdc-ie.jpg [64K]

Micha

#3

Micha,
thank you for all the help. I guess I will go back to tables, this is
too much to figure out right now, I have to show this to the client
soon. Too bad, would have been stoked to keep it all CSS.

Thank you for the help!

Are you german? I am from Germany originally, moved to the US 10 years ago.