Forums > a CSS file...having problems

crazy_goat_blackie

Oct 17 2005, 10:37 PM

i'm kind of new to CSS...so...yeah. and i'm having issues with my new template i'm making for the CSS reboot. the thing is, it looks absolutely perfect in internet explorer, but when i view it in firefox everything is screwed up! which obviously means there's something wrong with my code. anyone know what? i put it through the w3 validator but the report it gave me made no sense...

here it is:

CODE

Help?

Mulder

Oct 17 2005, 10:46 PM

well, your stylesheet goes between your <head> tags for one thing..

for the background color, use the background-color tag. and then use the html code for black : #000000.

actually, for all your colors, specify with an actual html code.

for this :

CODE

a:link
{
font-color:blue;
font:12px Tw Cen MT blue;
font-size:12px;
text-decoration:none;
}

you already have the color specified, which actually needs to be the html color. so it should be

font-family: Tw Cen MT. which im not sure is a font available online....

im probably so wrong..

heres your main problem:

you're specifying the colors and font sizes twice. you're listing the colors by their name and not by their html code.

easy to fix. IE might read names by color but i dont know about firefox.

crazy_goat_blackie

Oct 17 2005, 10:57 PM

i was slacking in the color area, but firefox has always picked up color names before :-\

Mulder

Oct 17 2005, 11:25 PM

i dont think thats the problem. i pointed out the other ones.

pbferrigan

Oct 17 2005, 11:59 PM

Hi,
Can you post a link for the site you are using this on? What specific problems are you having?

Thank you,
Peter

jordanriane

Oct 18 2005, 12:12 AM

If you want to know exact problems, you need to visit http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/.

crazy_goat_blackie

Oct 18 2005, 11:51 AM

like i said, i went to the validator but to be honest i didn't understand the results it gave me. i'm trying to use it here but it just shows up as a blank page x.x the thing is, on IE it looks all good and fine but the problem in firefox is the text is all screwed up and down lower than it's supposed to be, at least when i view it off my harddrive. when i try and look at it online, it's just...blank.
(btw, it's supposed to be a diary-x template)

Please do not double post, thank you. --Szeh

mipadi

Oct 18 2005, 01:17 PM

QUOTE(crazy_goat_blackie @ Oct 18 2005, 12:51 PM)

like i said, i went to the validator but to be honest i didn't understand the results it gave me. i'm trying to use it here but it just shows up as a blank page x.x the thing is, on IE it looks all good and fine but the problem in firefox is the text is all screwed up and down lower than it's supposed to be, at least when i view it off my harddrive. when i try and look at it online, it's just...blank.

You commented out all your code. Doctype declarations start with <!DOCTYPE, not with <!-- DOCTYPE.

crazy_goat_blackie

Oct 18 2005, 03:40 PM

/me feels incredibly stupid now

oops. i also took out a few extra <br> tags and now everything's all good and fine. i fixed the font and text, too. the only problem is in firefox not all my links are the color i told them to be

okay, i take that back, i'm still ahving a few issues. what seems to be the problem is the text i have set in certain div's (?) aren't...staying there. lookit: http://crazygoat.diary-x.com/journal.cgi?t...inz&entry=lorem in IE it works fine, but in firefox the entry box doesn't expand to hold all the text. how do i fix this? and...am i making sense?

posts merged

talcumpowder

Oct 19 2005, 12:27 AM

Like Szeh said, don't double post.
And the only time I've seen that happen is when the div has overflow-y: auto; in it.... You can use 100%px for the height measurement and it works though... -isn't sure if that's valid-

mipadi

Oct 19 2005, 12:32 AM

Instead of specifying a width for your entry text, why not just put a margin at the bottom? Then the DIV will scale vertically to accomodate all text, yet still have some space at the bottom.

jordanriane

Oct 19 2005, 09:56 AM

QUOTE(crazy_goat_blackie @ Oct 18 2005, 12:51 PM)

like i said, i went to the validator but to be honest i didn't understand the results it gave me. i'm trying to use it here but it just shows up as a blank page x.x the thing is, on IE it looks all good and fine but the problem in firefox is the text is all screwed up and down lower than it's supposed to be, at least when i view it off my harddrive. when i try and look at it online, it's just...blank.
(btw, it's supposed to be a diary-x template)

Please do not double post, thank you. --Szeh

Did you validate your CSS?

Because the link I gave would've given out straight forward answers to help you fix the CSS.

What you'd do is have everything in a stylesheet, then link the stylesheet in the validator, and etc etc.

I didn't give you the link to validate that your document was infact valid xhtml.

crazy_goat_blackie

Oct 20 2005, 05:46 PM

QUOTE

Instead of specifying a width for your entry text, why not just put a margin at the bottom? Then the DIV will scale vertically to accomodate all text, yet still have some space at the bottom.

err...what? that completely went over my heard.

mipadi

Oct 20 2005, 08:43 PM

Don't specify a height for the main content DIV. It will automatically resize to whatever size it needs to be to fit all the content.

crazy_goat_blackie

Oct 21 2005, 12:57 PM

ah...okay...thankyou so much! finally, someone answers me

Kenado

Oct 21 2005, 04:39 PM

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