GlowHost's CSS Problem

[andychev]

very very stretched! Using ie6 see attached, scrolled down a bit to take this screen shot

Interestingly, if i save the page and open it in dreamweaver then it displays fine within dreamweaver. I can then click on the preview button and it displays propberly in ie6. Will leave this for the experts!

[Matt]

Wow Andychev thats great to know. lol.

Who would have thought. Bad part is all 3 of my normal workstations have IE7 on them now. Need to go find another computer at some point that has IE6.

How's it look now if you get a chance before I do?

[jmarcv]

Weird thing is, I looked on ie 6 this morning after I read andys post and it was fine, then 15 minutes later .... poof!

[Matt]

Sounds like el cacherito to me...

Still messed up in IE 6?

[Matt]

I suggest we rename this thread to "CSS Problems and Solutions"

Well no one said you could not start your own thread called that!

Here is my problem:

Why does IE 7 instead of scaling the fonts the way normal browsers do scales everything on the page thus totally breaking the layout?

I think we all know the answer to that? Browsers don't suck, IE sux?

Here is one that I sort of know a fix, but was looking for some one-liner:
http://zoffix.com/css/ie/condcom.html How can I make Lynx display the table on that page a bit prettier so you could see that it is a table (come on table people, you love your tables so much this should be a no brainer to you )

As for the linx thing, I'll check it out later today.

[andychev]

The flash looks better as that was all pixalated before but the whole page is still streched as above

[Matt]

Zoffix, I rarely design for Lynx but I think your code is fine, its just maybe a screen size issue?

It seems the long line after "The Not Operator" is the first thing that trashes the otherwise nice looking table in Lynx.

[andychev]

I think the argument on css sucking needs resurecting!

It just gets weirder, I load the homepage and it is all stretched, however, go into view and font size and change the font size to anything different to what it is on and the pages fixes itself. Click the refresh on with that new font size and it breaks again.

Maybe this will help solve the problem!

[Matt]

I think the argument on css sucking needs resurecting!

Well you could open a poll in another thread and see what happens. I am sure that would be a fun read, heh.

Options:
CSS is Better
Tables are better
Who Cares!

[Zoffix Znet]

If you would to re-read all my posts I am sure you would find that I've said about two times that height: auto!important fix should be put into IE 7 ONLY conditional comment . Didn't see any stretching in IE 6, but I'm 99% sure that it was caused by some elements loosing hasLayout, and Peek-a-boo bug might been doing that. Since IE 7 came out I've talked to dozens of people that were complaining that the Tan hack is now messing things up in IE 7, wouldn't have happened if they would use cond.coms. If the page is not broken in other browsers why do you put the fix for them? No wonder why you think CSS sucks... heh