Two things... Firefox n Javascript

Hi,

I seem to be hitting that brick wall again. Attached is a zip file, in it is the beginning growth of some new pages (not the same as the last lot).

Anyway - to attempt at full proper browser compatibility, I tried it in Firefox. Oh gawd did it fail - yup miserably. Seems it can't cope with nested Divs. Or maybe I need an upgrade..?

IE sorta worked (5.5 seemed ok) but 6 does stuff it shouldn't :(

If any of you have any advice (apart from deleting and forgetting it all), please post :) :D

Vince

That's probably not what you want to hear, but I recommend learning to write modern JavaScript. And since the whole thing is ASP, write the menu in ASP, JS-generated menus are a scourge.

Not particularly what I wanted to hear :p

This site is for HTML only which is why I've put in the Javascript menu creation. It still doesn't help with the general layout though.

In ie it looks almost there, but in firefox it is completely messed up (that includes nutscrape). I have yet to get some of the other browsers to test on.


Vince

Firefox can definitely cope with nested divs, so that's not your problem.

I've browsed through your code, and it looks awfully '98 (outdated). I suggest that you start from scratch, putting all layout stuff straight in the HTML (no javascript document.write's needed here).
The tickertape stuff has to be done in js, well that's a bit outdated too, but that's up to you.

Please validate your code with the w3c validator as I pointed out in your other post, this will make sure all browsers will output the same stuff (if you take care of some bugs).

I hope you can figure it out a bit, if not let us know.

Good luck!

Hi,

OK, as you suggested I've shoved all the javascript menu creation into the html as normal html.

I've removed the Ticker - well it was only an idea anyway.

I've left in the resize and move javascript in the menu/code.

Anyway, the attached zip has all the files again.


You said ( and I think cornedbee hinted) that my html code is 'old style'. Could you put a couple of divs and a stylesheet of 'new code' so I can see the difference????


Vince