Thank you to all the

tochiro — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:10:26 +0000

Thank you to all the contributors. I now have to try the various ideas you suggested and see what happens.

Cheers

This page about using

decibel.places — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:14:04 +0000

This page about using innerHTML should explain better than I can here - especially the links to Try It pages!

Basically, you need to create a container, a div or a p (paragraph) and give it an id name <div id="adsense"></div>

then, later on in the page (so the container has been created/rendered) some javascript to set its content:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
	document.getElementById('adsense').innerHTML="your adsense code here";
//-->
</script>

it would probably also work with:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
adsense.innerHTML="your adsense code here";
//-->
</script>

but I do not know if adding your adsense code like this will work with the adsense service...

Thank you Greg for your time

tochiro — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:36:44 +0000

Thank you Greg for your time and input. I have done what you suggest and it looks fine now in FF and IE whereas a few hours ago I had to add "left: 110px" to have the div correctly positioned. I do not know why it now works without this rule... The weird thing is that with or without this rule, IE displays the div at the same place.

tochiro wrote: That is

greg — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:08:00 +0000

tochiro wrote:

That is weird because in my FF 3.0.8 and IE7 the left side ads are well positioned.

See the image I have attached.
I am using Firefox 3.07 (on Ubuntu)

As for why, I only briefly looked at your code..
In your main_styles.css (line 255) you have this

#googleAds {
left:110px;
padding:0 10px;
position:absolute;
top:900px;
width:180px;
}

When I remove that left:110px; it looks fine in my FF.
I didn't try it in any other browser without the left margin.

decibel.places wrote: in FF

tochiro — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:50:53 +0000

decibel.places wrote:

in FF 3.0.8 the ads show

but the left side ads are outside your sidebar to the left of it, probably not what you intend (display the same in IE7)

That is weird because in my FF 3.0.8 and IE7 the left side ads are well positioned. How come?

decibel.places wrote:

You can try writing the code for the Google ads with PHP or Javascript

Actually I insert the ads through PHP includes.

decibel.places wrote:

Or perhaps you can use a script - that executes AFTER the jquery one - that will add your ads as innerHTML content (not sure how that will work with Google's analysis of the page content).

How would you do that? Are there such scripts freely downloadable?

decibel.places wrote:

If jquery is the problem, you could try another menu, this one from Dynamic Drive is quite similar.

What I like with the menu I use (http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/jquery-accordion-menu-redux2/) is that it remembers its state between pages.

in FF 3.0.8 the ads show but

decibel.places — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:22:22 +0000

in FF 3.0.8 the ads show

but the left side ads are outside your sidebar to the left of it, probably not what you intend (display the same in IE7)

As Megan noted, it is probably an issue with page load and triggering the jquery script.

You can try writing the code for the Google ads with PHP or Javascript

Or perhaps you can use a script - that executes AFTER the jquery one - that will add your ads as innerHTML content (not sure how that will work with Google's analysis of the page content).

I developed a system to save all the AdSense codes for my site in a js file and write them as variables in specific pages, so I could maintain and change the ad codes easily in a central repository (not on my current site, on my old GeoCities Free site)

If jquery is the problem, you could try another menu, this one from Dynamic Drive is quite similar.

Here is a link to the page:

tochiro — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:43:53 +0000

Here is a link to the page: http://ivredimages.free.fr/croustwich/sudouest.php

You have to use IE6 or 7 because in FF the ads do not show. (do not know why)

Thank you

Can you post a link to your

Megan — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:36:00 +0000

Can you post a link to your page so we can see what's happening?

This is most likely a problem with jquery waiting until the rest page is loaded before it does anything. That's what it's doing when you use (document).ready. So if google is taking awhile to respond then jquery can't do anything until it's finished.

Not sure if there's a way to fix this... I had to remove some tracking scripts from my site because they were causing similar problems.