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Posted by: dnt Feb 20 2007, 09:12 PM

Help!
I can't find what's doing it; The whole page is visible in IE7 and FF, but the center and right column are invisible in IE6. The text is there in the source and the page expands with longer pages on the site, the content is just not there. The site has been pieced together from several incarnations of this site, so the code is not pretty, but can someone help me fix the immediate problem.
http://dnanotech.com
Thanks

Posted by: Darin McGrew Feb 20 2007, 09:16 PM

I just get

QUOTE
Database connection failed!! DB Error: connect failed

Posted by: dnt Feb 20 2007, 09:19 PM

QUOTE(Darin McGrew @ Feb 20 2007, 09:16 PM) *

I just get
QUOTE
Database connection failed!! DB Error: connect failed



*(&%(&^&^$ webhost. Actually, they're usually very good.
Could you try again.. it was back up when I just tried.
Thanks

Posted by: dnt Feb 20 2007, 09:21 PM

QUOTE(Darin McGrew @ Feb 20 2007, 09:16 PM) *

I just get
QUOTE
Database connection failed!! DB Error: connect failed



They're making a liar of me... it is going up and down...hopefully some useful maintenance at least.

Posted by: pandy Feb 20 2007, 10:42 PM

This is the rule that causes it.

CODE
.interestItems{list-style-image: url(../images/ulButton.jpg);
    margin-top:10px;
    padding-left:5%;
    margin-left:5%;}


I didn't look at the code much, so I don't know why this happens. But if you set the padding and margin in pixels or em instead the page will come back as long as you don't make them too large. Possibly you are making it too tight for IE's liking.

You should slap a doctype on and validate.
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/


Incidentally, a doctype that put IE6 in Standards Mode also fixes the problem. But that won't help with older versions of IE.
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/

Posted by: dnt Feb 21 2007, 10:36 AM

Thanks a ton; It worked like a charm changing to pixels--and I actually took more space away.


QUOTE(pandy @ Feb 20 2007, 10:42 PM) *

This is the rule that causes it.

CODE
.interestItems{list-style-image: url(../images/ulButton.jpg);
    margin-top:10px;
    padding-left:5%;
    margin-left:5%;}


I didn't look at the code much, so I don't know why this happens. But if you set the padding and margin in pixels or em instead the page will come back as long as you don't make them too large. Possibly you are making it too tight for IE's liking.

You should slap a doctype on and validate.
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/


Incidentally, a doctype that put IE6 in Standards Mode also fixes the problem. But that won't help with older versions of IE.
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/


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