Rincewind — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:27:55 +0000

You'll have to do allot of hacks to get the page to work in Netscape Commuicator 4.8. Basically it just doesn't support much of the CSS that you are using. The best solution if you must have a usable page for NN4.x is to get the style sheat to turn off. Just print the plain html without any layout or styles. Or just minimal styles. That way people on NN4.x can still see and read and use the page even if the site doesn't look the way it was intended.

One easy way to do this is to use the @import command to load in your style sheat. (NN4 can't understand the @import command so won't load the style sheet. All the ther browsers will load it though.) You can have a seccond style sheet using the usual link method and put just the basic colours and backgrounds in the second sheet and the complex layout CSS in the @import'ed sheat.

<style type="text/css">@import "css/not/for/netscape/4.x/and_older/browser.css";</style>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="the/simple/css/for/all/browsers.css" />

Though as Roo says - who uses Netscape 4.x browsers these days.

Roo — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:16:17 +0000

Forget about Netscape 4X. It's an ancient browser that doesn't support standards, including CSS.

If you want to test in Netscape, test in versions 7 and 8.

Thanks mate - problem solved - well almost.

debchall — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:37:20 +0000

The float left for the main content has worked for every browser. There is still a wierd problem with Netscape Commuicator 4.8 - everything is all over the shot.

Cheers
Debs

Rincewind — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:46:05 +0000

Quite curious bug in FF. However, I did find a solution. If you tell your #maincontent to also float:left they you will see the overlap dissapear. You could do with validating your code though, and move off the transitional doctype to a strict one. Then have a look at removing those and tags that you have all over the place.