help with MSIE 6 browser display problems

I am having trouble with our new site displaying correctly
in MSIE
6/Windows 2000, and MSIE/Windows XP.  I'm not sure if it has
to do with my
Doctype declaration, or a problem with my CSS, or something
else.  Does
anyone have any insight for me?   

Please keep in mind that I'm a children's librarian--not a
web designer--
and I'm self-taught as far as web page design is concerned. 
I've created
this site for our library using Dreamweaver from scratch
(and modifying an
established stylesheet), and I am aware there are probably
some errors in
there somewhere. I do have 6 errors when I validate the site
through the
W3C Markup Validation service,  mostly relating to
language=javascript
triggering a "there is no attribute language"
error, and other attribute
errors that I'm not sure how to fix or if it's necessary to
fix them (most
of them seem to be result of code put in by Dreamweaver.)  I
don't imagine
these are the source of the browser display problems,
however.  If you are
willing to take a look and give me some advice, I'd
appreciate it!

Thanks!

Here's the URL:[ http
://www.thomasmemoriallibrary.org/index.shtml ]
http
://www.thomasmemoriallibrary.org/index.shtml

Rachel  

Rachel Q. Davis
Children's Librarian
Thomas Memorial Library
6 Scott Dyer Road
Cape Elizabeth, ME  04107
207-799-1720


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Welcome to IE6 css box model hell.

The problem is that IE6 uses a different model for how it
treats boxes  
and their margins and padding than every other browser. The
argument  
can be made that IE6 was right in its interpretation of the
rules and  
everybody else is wrong, but that does not really matter.
You might  
want to Google "ie6 box model" for a bunch of
solutions.

FWIW, I highly recommend CSS Mastery by Andy Budd (http://www.cssmastery.com/
 
). Of the 20+ CSS books that I have read over the last
decade (not  
exaggerating), this is among the most useful.

Cary Gordon, MLS
The Cherry Hill Company
http://www.chillco.com

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On May 7, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Rachel Davis wrote:

> I am having trouble with our new site displaying
correctly in MSIE
> 6/Windows 2000, and MSIE/Windows XP.  I'm not sure if
it has to do  
> with my
> Doctype declaration, or a problem with my CSS, or
something else.   
> Does
> anyone have any insight for me?
>
> Please keep in mind that I'm a children's
librarian--not a web  
> designer--
> and I'm self-taught as far as web page design is
concerned.  I've  
> created
> this site for our library using Dreamweaver from
scratch (and  
> modifying an
> established stylesheet), and I am aware there are
probably some  
> errors in
> there somewhere. I do have 6 errors when I validate the
site through  
> the
> W3C Markup Validation service,  mostly relating to
language=javascript
> triggering a "there is no attribute language"
error, and other  
> attribute
> errors that I'm not sure how to fix or if it's
necessary to fix them  
> (most
> of them seem to be result of code put in by
Dreamweaver.)  I don't  
> imagine
> these are the source of the browser display problems,
however.  If  
> you are
> willing to take a look and give me some advice, I'd
appreciate it!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Here's the URL:[ http
://www.thomasmemoriallibrary.org/index.shtml ]
> http
://www.thomasmemoriallibrary.org/index.shtml
>
> Rachel
>
> Rachel Q. Davis
> Children's Librarian
> Thomas Memorial Library
> 6 Scott Dyer Road
> Cape Elizabeth, ME  04107
> 207-799-1720
>
>
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Cary Gordon wrote:
>
> The problem is that IE6 uses a different model for how
it treats boxes
> and their margins and padding than every other
browser.
>
> FWIW, I highly recommend CSS Mastery by Andy Budd

Another very good resource for IE problems is the website
Position is Everything.  Where they describe problems and
give possible solutions.  In particular, see their section
of IE only bugs:
htt
p://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html


--
Jonathan Bloy
Web Services Librarian
Edgewood College
Madison, Wisconsin
http://library.edgewood.
edu/




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