CSS Craziness & Take a look!

The validation errors seem to be because you have one enormous unordered list for a sidebar and are trying to use paragraph tags as the headers for new subdivisions of content. Try having separate unordered lists for each of those subdivisions and get rid of all the paragraph tags in between.

I haven’t looked into the footer/IE problem yet.

Ok, I’m looking into it. Thanks for a point in the right direction Coldforged!

In terms of the footer/sidebar problems, from what I can tell of your heirarchy and to get where you want to go you’d need to start by having the sidebar in a separately selectable element, like a #sidebar div. From there you could probably float it right and therefore have the footer be forced to the bottom of both. I can’t test it for certain because the markup isn’t there to support it.

Understood. I’m really ignorant of the ul & li tags, but am catching on. After I have that error locked down, I’ll get the sidebar elements added to css.

I haven’t had a chance to look, but if you want the footer to be at the very bottom, clear of all the rest of the “floats” (if you are using floats” for your columns) , you need to add a “clear:both” to your footer selector:

#footer {....; clear:both; .....}

I fought with this for ages until I learned this trick. But the missing DIV was probably the main culprit. Usually is.

If you are using floats, there are a lot of problems with them in different browsers, not just MSIE. I spent two days solving one recently that ended up being the easiest fix at https://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html. I hate it when I spend so much time and the fix was there all the time – so easy…but that’s the way of it.

You are all amazing! Thanks for the assistance, it’s greatly appreciated. I have no one here (physically) to knock ideas and guesses off, so this is an enormous help.

As I correct it, it looks like I’ll need to start fixing my ‘bad’ design elements as well. ?? When I added the div element, it added a nasty background of gray, i’ll start fixing it. ??

Oh yea. It was the missing div element. The whole page now loads in IE. But as I said above. Now I need to start over on the ‘graphical’ part again. ??

Change one thing and the whole thing falls apart.

Hey, I thought I was in really good shape, and I’m considered some kind of expert (though twisted and “it’s all lies!!!”) on this stuff and I just ran another validation and found TONS of boo boos and freaked out.

They aren’t, thank goodness, with my layout, but with the static HTML code I imported into the database – my old articles. I thought they were all tested for XHTML and some slipped through.

I’ve got HOURS if not weeks of fixing ahead of me…..so what the heck and I doing hanging out here? Avoidance!

Wanna come over and help me? I’ll help you….hee hee…trade problems. I got over 500 articles to fix up.

Now I feel bad, [pout]. I’d gladly help, but the mention of ‘weeks’ of fixing is scary (daunting)! [smile] I’m moving in a few weeks to a diffrent state, and I’d hate be unreliable. I feel like I’m taking and not returning the favor [meep!]

I just moved back to the states from Israel – and this was my “not packing or unpacking this moment” stress reliever. If working with the hell of converting over 500 static HTML web pages into a php database driven site, at a time when they change the entire system midway through my conversion from 1.2 to 1.5 is less stressful than moving from one country to another…..anyone can survive a WordPress mod.

I am planning on moving (back) to Portland Oregon. I’m just trying to get this all ironed out before my internet state goes from Static IP to CoffeeShopProxy. ??

Good luck! With all of it.