[TriLUG] CSS question

[Tim Jowers]

IE8 has an integrated debugger too (F12). Did it show you anything
about the CSS? Is there some trick you could do with making the DIV's
relative to their containing DIV?

Tim


On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Glenn Hennessee
<glenn.hennessee at gmail.com> wrote:
> You may find the Web Developer tool for Firefox from
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer/ useful
> here. One of the features is to show the CSS that a particular item on
> a page has assigned to it. After installing and restarting Firefox you
> will have a new toolbar with a CSS entry. Under that is the View Style
> Information. Select it and then click on your menu item that works and
> a window at the bottom of the screen will open showing all the css
> applying to it. Click on a menu item that doesn't work and view the
> css for it. My guess you're going to find them different.
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Justis Peters <justis.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 01/24/2012 06:26 PM, Brian McCullough wrote:
>>>
>>> Also understood.  I have been beating my head on this and other layout and
>>> display issues in this code for several days, with other interruptions, and
>>> was feeling that I should see if other eyes could offer suggestions.
>>
>> It sounds like your code has many moving parts. That's one of the reasons
>> that I'm recommending that you isolate each piece until you figure out the
>> root cause. Based on my cursory knowledge, I suspect the DHTML portions of
>> the javascript. It's possible that the show/hide stuff is modifying the
>> markup in ways that you don't expect.
>>
>> Another useful tool in debugging is Firebug for Firefox or one of the
>> developer consoles in Chrome or Safari.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Justis
>>
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