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[jgrafton]

http://arts.tjhsst.edu/drumline/winter04/

Anybody want to help me figure out why this site just *fails* in IE?

It's fine in anything mozilla based, and it validates as CSS2/XHTML 1.1. This is the first site I've had that just totally bombs in IE.

Thanks.

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[gilenaki.livejournal.com]

maybe something a little more cheerful and a little less machine/dungeon like? i think it has a lot to do with the colors.

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[jgrafton]

no, that's not the problem - the site is supposed to look machinelike, it matches the show this year.

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[gilenaki.livejournal.com]

oh. well, then i guess that part of it works.

[angeldesignpro.livejournal.com]

Doesn't look very fail like in my IE ?_?

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[jgrafton]

does the red navigation bar go all the way to the bottom?

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[angeldesignpro.livejournal.com]

No it doesn't, but (idea)

It opens in a new window, and it goes to the bottom of the smaller window that opens. When I mazimize it, it doesn't go all the way to the bottom.

*shrugs* I have no idea what I'm talking about, feel free to ignore me

[theflemsta.livejournal.com]

I don't know what you have implemented, but it doesn't seem to be totally bombing. Do you have things anywhere but news and photos? Those two work, okay for me. The read bar...I don't know, that's just strange and...strange. Good luck!

[indigo.livejournal.com]

everything works except that the bar doesn't go all the way to the bottom. the last link on said bar is "TJHSST".
grammar nazi says you misspelled "repertoire," and cares because she spelled it the way you spelled it [without the second R] and as a result lost the 6th grade spelling bee.

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[jgrafton]

clearly, I fail.

*goes to fix*

thanks!

[tubamajor.livejournal.com]

I just looked at the source of the page and the style sheet after writing the stuff below and saw that you were using div's rather than tables. 1) Try using tables, at least for the menu part. 2) Go here...first google result for "div height" w/o quotes. http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/2629.htm

I left below for reference, but it may not apply anymore.

Josh

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I've dealth with this before. IE and some other browsers don't just let you arbitrarily set a table to fill vertically 100% if you set height=100% for a cell. You have to have something in one of the cells that is that high. Notice when you go to the pictures page, the bar goes all the way down, because the pictures page has content in a cell that is larger vertically than one screen.

The solution is to put something invisible that will take up the whole page, even for short ones. Try making a 1x1 clear pixel (or red or black depending upon what you're putting it on) and then setting the height within the img tag to be huge. Or put a bunch of br's after the menu or content cells. The problem with that is that you'll be able to scroll down past any content, but that's not too bad. You could write some script that figures out how many newlines you need to fill up a page.

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[jgrafton]

Yeah, I ended up doing something to that effect to make it work in IE.

Thanks, though.

And I used only divs for the sheer challenge of it... to prove that it could be done.