Dan Matley

Excellent, just discovered the answer! I needed to change the HTML's height parameter to "min-height" instead. This way if the page was longer then it extends to over 100% supposedly. For once, I think IE was the winner in this annoying situation.

no unfortunately that doesn't work - it just looks the same (you can see I've left it with this suggestion). when I try this, it only looks right when the page is LONGER than the web browser's view - if it's shorter then the gradient starts too early...it would certainly need to be set to 100% on either the HTML or BODY

I have a very annoying problem with a gradient which won't stick to the bottom of the background when the page content is longer that the browser's height. There's an extra bit of space between the end of the body, and the end of the html page. This only works in browsers other than IE - for a change. Can anyone help? goldenskyfilms.com/projects.php

Thank you also Wickham! Clears things up about how IE interprets things. Also the width of 564px to the .content worked perfectly fine - a much better permanent solution. I guess this just ensures IE doesn't go overlap anything either side...even though it clearly shouldn't as the containing div would block it.

Thanks Monica - I've made the changes to please the W3 validator. I usually make the tweeks once I've got the main design out the way (not quite there yet) but you're right in that I should have ensured all these were correct before requesting help on my coding.

That works too, but can you explain why IE is overlapping on the left and how it is that this fix works?

that certainly worked, but eventually the text will be large enough to wrap around the image. A class like that added to a <p> will effectively create a left column...and not wrap around the image. Not to worry, I'll figure something out based on the advice you gave. It's all a learning curve - thanks mate. Much appreciated!

mteam you are a genius and a life saver! That worked perfectly. I notice I've another IE issue to deal with now on the index page, but feel no obligation to assist with this too. If you do, then the problem is with the left side of the .content div overlaps its containing div. I think it's because IE doesn't like an <a> tag with a margin-left attribute. I'm starting to admire "zeds" suggestion!

Oh yes! Sorry I've updated my post above... www.goldenskyfilms.com

I'm usually savvy enough with CSS to know what will and what won't be accepted by Internet Explorer - however I stumped with this one. If you take a look at the "simple" site I'm currently developing in Chrome or Firefox, you'll see that the navbar looks normal enough. www.goldenskyfilms.com Now open it up in IE and you'll see there's an horrendous gap above and below the navbar - does anyone know why this is? I've ensure that all the surrounding divs have been given margin & padding of 0px but still nothing works. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

I'm trying to make fieldset boxes minimize by user control. For instance, an advanced search options box, which if the <LEGEND> text is clicked, then more options dropdown. Is this easy to achieve with either a simple CSS or JAVA code? There's also usually a little arrow which either points right for minimized, and down for showing the contents.

I'm trying to find a way so that I can have a 100px wide image tiled down the left side of the page background and one on the right. So that they site behind the container div. All I know how to do is attach a simple one image and have it tiled, but it's not the right effect. I'm sure this is something simple but any ideas?

Hi, I'm looking to find an easy way I can update an articles section on my homepage using a content management system. I don't want to have a million HTML files for every article. I just want that one window on the page to display text which is easily updated, and then archive the old (which can still be accessed easily). I had a look at Silverstripe but to me it seems I have to build the whole site around the CMS, and not just one small window. Perhaps I'm doing something completely wrong though. Anyone suggest anything? Dan

Hi, My website has advertising and I want to know which ads to display dependant on the visitor's country. For instance, American's should see an Ads which trade in $ and British visitors for £. How do I do this? Thanks Dan p.s - apologies for the typo in the topic's title

Hi, I'm looking to place a box on my site which displays content from another website which has RSS Feeds. Is there a program or website which can make this box simply for me, which also looks quite professional? Thank you. Dan

Hi all, If you have firefox, if you use this to visit the temporary page for my website http://www.scriptclub.com ....you'll see it doesn't fit correctly in Firefox, but in IE and Chrome it's fine. I've been playing around, and I think Firefox doesn't recognise the font and size setting for the DIVs. Is this normal? How can I correct it? Thank you. Dan