Placement of banner ad can destroy site in some browsers (code question)

Hey All,

Firstly: anyone who is kind enough to try to resolve this is awesome in my book. It’s a little thing that’s bit me in the butt twice over this last year and only this time I caught myself creating the problem.

Basically I have a PHP forum that I want to drop a banner into. It lives here:

https://www.macliberals.com/v-web/bulletin/bb/viewforum.php?f=1

Now, at the very top of the forum you see a small rotating banner, a row of buttons below, then the forum’s own ONEandONLYbanner, and then the forum itself. Simple enough, right?

This isn’t how I want it. I’ll live with it, but what I want is the top most banner residing just underneath the OneAndOnly banner but above the forum.

When I place the exact same java script that’s up to top where I want to insert the link, all hell breaks loose in Mac’s Safari. Firefox is fine but I’m just curious what’s up and if it can somehow be fixed to be my way.

I’m not a coder type (though y’all have taught me a lot), and so I can only describe what goes wrong visually: in Safari, when the banners are aligned my way, the background of all pages become links to the rotating banner. It’s as if that code bleeds in Safari, when positioned as I wish.

Logically, if the code is messed up, you’d think this bleeding over link issue would occur no matter where I drop the code. But that just ain’t it.

One theory: the rotating ad banner java code originally had height and width restrictions for the images. I got rid of them so that any image would appear as uploaded. Perhaps Safari doesn’t know how to handle the missing code and responds by letting the ‘edges’ of the banner go everywhere.

Here is the all of the code of from my overall_header.tpl as the page current resides on the server. I’ll make a fuss towards the bottom where the code used to be.

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