The Joys of CSS

Author: Sven Rafferty
Saturday, December 31, 2005

I’ve been spending parts of the day getting SvenOnTech all diced up and pieced into code and the CSS is giving me headaches. Actually, Internet Explorer is. While Firefox is giving me one headache (the footer won’t clear to the bottom of the page,) IE is giving me several. While Firefox respectfully listens to the colors of my links in the table of contents, IE thinks it’ll just ignore that class and use the standard call for links.

Speaking of the table of contents, the bar in which it’s in has a one pixel white line through it. It was a CSS box but IE put this huge white-space in it. I figured it was the fact that the DIV tags weren’t all scrunched up together as is a common bug for IE so I just added a clear image instead. Still, the same problem. Ugh. At this point, I have no idea why it’s doing this. Stupid IE.

I also was having issues with the Archives box which hangs off the TOC bar. Since time is running out, I’ll have to introduce that later. It’s now in the comment stream of PHP.

I want to make this site fully CSS and very limited in images. I want a quick download of the page as Svenrox is just full with complex tables and images all over the place. My preliminary tests of the new site shows that it does download a lot faster. That’s good. But I still have lots to do. The site isn’t going to be fully functional by tomorrow, but my hopes is at least the main part of it will be. And hey, it’s New Years, so give a guy a break. :)


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