[TriLUG] wtf does firefox resolve html and ie6 blows

[Jim Ray]

good eyes.  that did the trick.

thanks,

jim

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Owen Berry wrote:
> Change line 557 from this:
> 
> <TR BACKGROUND="images/pixi_2.gif" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
> 
> To this:
> 
> <tr bgcolor="#535353">
> 
> And it'll look much better. The problem is that in the style sheet you
> have color set to #FFFFFF (white), but the table row also has a bgcolor
> of #FFFFFF. Keep the background image if you want.
> 
> Does that help? Fixed it for me. I think it was working in Firefox
> because of some strange stuff going on beforehand in the html. After
> fixing so that it would validate through the W3 validator, it did the
> same thing in Firefox as IE.
> 
> Let me know if my line numbers don't match up with yours - I saved it as
> "web page complete" in Firefox so that I could work on it locally, which
> seems to move things around a little, and then I had to go back and find
> the line number in the real source. I'm sure I could find it again if
> necessary.
> 
> Owen
> 
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 08:22:29AM -0400, Jim Ray wrote:
>> any html experts out there that can tell me why firefox resolves 
>> http://www.neuse.net as intended while ie6 won't give up to go?  not 
>> that anyone here cares about ie6, i'd still like to have the html work 
>> in both.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> jim