Magenta — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:08:06 +0000

I think I've found my problem. It's apparently a well-known IE6 bug and there's an explanation and solutions here: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html

I'm gonna get a large mug of coffee and study up on the notoriously wacky, zany IE6. But first I wanna thank Roo for fixing my code ( :blush: ) and supersam33 for the suggestion about a straight html page. I'm going to keep that idea nearby for emergencies.

supersam33 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:38:35 +0000

your css wasnt valid with ie6, to fix this
you can put a simple link at the bottom of the page, changing from css to html, just make another page, maybe called like index2.html, and remove the css link from that and make it the html only page, this would make the site accessible by everyone.

Magenta — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:11:47 +0000

It still doesn't display properly. However, in an attempt to isolate the problem, I removed the link to the stylesheet from the html and the missing list appeared in IE6, unstyled but it was there. Does this give anyone any clues as to what the prob is?

Magenta — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:58:12 +0000

Roo, just saw your post with the corrected code! Thank you so much for going to all that trouble! I'll try it right now!

Magenta — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:56:46 +0000

Roo, thanks for the correction to the DTD. I've fixed the html file as you suggested but IE6 still won't show the links list. I had the closing head tag in the document, I just did a slack job of cutting and pasting it to here. I think staring at code for hours has drained my caffeine reserves. Brain's getting....thingy.

Roo — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:46:52 +0000

And when you add the -->
Remove the beginning tag.

This is corrected code:

Used Cars at Western Motors.

USED CARS FOR SALE AT THE CHEAPEST PRICES
IN THE WEST

How To Find Us
Western Motors is situated on the corner of Rosamond Road and Mitchell Street.

Magenta — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:43:50 +0000

supersam33;222767 wrote: Maybe add a bit of CSS to even it all out and get it working properly?

Sorry, I forgot to post the stylesheet.:blush:

body
{
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
color: #000000;
background-color: #e0e0e0;
margin: 0px;
}

#header
{
width: 780px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
border-bottom: solid #d5d5d5 3px;
}

#container
{
position: relative;
width: 774px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding: 0;
border: solid #a4a4a4 3px;

}

#nav
{
position: absolute;
width: 140px;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}

#nav ul li
{
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;

}

#nav ul
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

#nav ul li a:link {
color: #666666;

}

#nav ul li a:visited {
color: #a4a4a4

}

#nav ul li a:hover {
color: #000000;

}

#nav ul li a:link, #nav ul li a:visited, #nav ul li a:hover {
display: block;

font-weight: bold;

border-bottom: solid #a4a4a4 1px;

padding-top: 3px;

padding-bottom: 3px;

padding-left: 15px;

text-decoration: none;
}

#main

{
float: right;
width: 634px;
margin-left: 140px;
border-left: solid #a4a4a4 3px;
padding: 10px;
}
#cheap
{
font-size: 1.4em;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
text-align: center;

}

#map
{
width: 500px;
height: 300px;
border: solid #a4a4a4 2px;
margin: 10px;

}

h2
{

}

Errors

Roo — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:37:43 +0000

Try correcting the code errors and see what happens:

Right off the bat I see something missing in your Doctype.

It should look like this:

And you are missing the closing tag.

These things will throw off the entire page when you are using XHTML. It will not allow errors.

supersam33 — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:59:31 +0000

Maybe add a bit of CSS to even it all out and get it working properly?