Thanks to all for your help. I clearly have tons to learn regarding such esoteric subjects as doctypes and validation and unfortunately, there isn't much clearly written documentation available. (I did follow dhdf's suggestion, found in another thread, to switch to html 4.01 strict).
However, Brad's advice to remove all hacks did the trick. The layout now appears to work in FF 2.0, IE 6 and Safari. I haven't seen it in IE 5 or 7.
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I would be happy to validate if the validation procedure gave me anything more than nonsensical "errors" such as missing quote marks, characters and end carats that are in fact there.
I can hardly believe that any of these so-called "errors" have anything to do with the CSS question I posed. It's a matter of making the layout work....Leave a comment:
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Thanks for the suggestion, Brad. The Commented Backslash Hack is the problem, as I can see by checking the result in iCapture.
It doesn't help matters that at this point, I can't remember why I used the hack. I've killed every instance of it, except in the middle column (the div labeled "leftcolumn ").
Unfortunately, though, when I remove the hack from inside the curly brackets in the leftcolumn div, the layout...Leave a comment:
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Here's the relevant CSS that defines the site structure. It includes an 800px "content" div that contains a header (topheadline), footer and three columns (navlink, leftcolumn and rightcolumn).
The content displays in the "leftcolumn " div.
...Code:#content { background-color: rgb(237,237,237); border-left:1px solid #ddd; border-right:1px solid #ddd; border-bottom:2px solidLeave a comment:
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Yes, and most of those "errors" are for tags that are supposedly omitted, but are in fact present.
I leave my original request open for anyone who would like to provide actual assistance, as opposed to unwelcome lectures.Leave a comment:
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Layout busted in Safari
This three-column layout is busted in Safari. It's built with a fixed-width container, with three percentage-based columns inside.
http://tinyurl.com/uw8mc
The box-model hack is present to ensure that the columns display correctly in IE.
It works fine in Firefox and IE, but Safari appears to take the layout apart. Since I work on a PC, the only way for me to test the site is with iCapture.
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