FP 2003 Dynamic Web Templates in IE

[Mike Becker]

I have created a website that previously used shared borders. When Upgrading to FP 2003 I changed to using Dynamic Web Templates. I currently have 6 templates that I'm using, all with a link bar on the left of the page.

When viewing in Netscape 7.0 everything is fine. However, when viewing in IE 6.0 the page content is aligned with the left side of the screen instead of in relation to the right side of the link bar. So, 1/3 of the page content is hidden behind the link bar.

In Browser compatibility/Authoring I have the following settings:

Browsers: Both Internet Explorer and Navigator
Schema Version: Internet Explorer 4.0/Navigator 4.0

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike Becker

 

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I have created a website that previously used shared borders. When

Upgrading to FP 2003 I changed to using Dynamic Web Templates. I currently
have 6 templates that I'm using, all with a link bar on the left of the
page.

When viewing in Netscape 7.0 everything is fine. However, when viewing in

IE 6.0 the page content is aligned with the left side of the screen instead
of in relation to the right side of the link bar. So, 1/3 of the page
content is hidden behind the link bar.

 

[Mike Becker]

Yes,

The URL is

http://www.leeandersen.com

Thanks

Mike

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Sounds like an absolute positioning problem
- check any positioned layers or absolutely position elements for overlap




| I have created a website that previously used shared borders. When Upgrading to FP 2003 I changed to using Dynamic Web Templates.
I currently have 6 templates that I'm using, all with a link bar on the left of the page.
|
| When viewing in Netscape 7.0 everything is fine. However, when viewing in IE 6.0 the page content is aligned with the left side
of the screen instead of in relation to the right side of the link bar. So, 1/3 of the page content is hidden behind the link bar.
|
| In Browser compatibility/Authoring I have the following settings:
|
| Browsers: Both Internet Explorer and Navigator
| Schema Version: Internet Explorer 4.0/Navigator 4.0
|
| Any help is greatly appreciated.
|
| Thanks,
|
| Mike Becker

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Remove all your absolute positioning as in
<td valign="top" align="left" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px" rowspan="2">




| Yes,
|
| The URL is
|
| http://www.leeandersen.com
|
| Thanks
|
| Mike

 

[Mike Becker]

----- Stefan B Rusynko wrote: ----

Remove all your absolute positioning as i
<td valign="top" align="left" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px" rowspan="2"

-
Thanks Stefan

I'm a bit of a rookie and don't understand completely what needs to be done. I've tried playing around with alignment in several different places but can't seem to correct the problem

I've tried making changes on my index.htm page as it is only attached to a single Dynamic Web Template. I know that the alignment pertains to a table but I'm not sure exactly which table or where. Following are some quick questions

1) Can the issue be resolved by aligning the position in the DWT Page or will it have to be applied to the content of every page in the site? (The site is for a clothing manufacturer and there are over 500 pages

2) Is the alignment issue related to the entire table or do I have to change alignment in every cell in each of the tables

I don't know if this is relevant but there are 2 layers on the DWT that are absolutely positioned. They needed to be that way in order to display correctly on the attached pages. I didn't think absolute positioning would be a problem for a DWT. The use of layers and positioning was one of the reasons that I switched from shared borders

Do you have any idea why this works in Netscape but not IE

Thanks

Mik


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| Yes

| The URL i

| http://www.leeandersen.co

| Thank

| Mike

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

1st problem is in the in the .dwt page change
<td valign="top" align="left" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px" rowspan="2">
<img border="0" src="Zoe/bar2.jpg" width="203" height="605" align="top"></td>
<td valign="top" colspan="2" height="334"><!-- #BeginEditable "Body" -->
to
<td valign="top" align="left" rowspan="2" width="203" height="605">
<img border="0" src="Zoe/bar2.jpg" width="203" height="605" align="top"></td>
<td valign="top" colspan="2"><!-- #BeginEditable "Body" -->

2nd problem - I see nothing in any of your editable regions of pages that requires absolute positioning (tables and cell alignment
will do it fine) - remove your positioning styles

You may want to split up your page into several editable regions and try to keep them as separate tables
You can get some ideas on how to set it up at http://www.dwtig.com/



| ----- Stefan B Rusynko wrote: -----
|
| Remove all your absolute positioning as in
| <td valign="top" align="left" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px" rowspan="2">
|
| --
| Thanks Stefan,
|
| I'm a bit of a rookie and don't understand completely what needs to be done. I've tried playing around with alignment in several
different places but can't seem to correct the problem.
|
| I've tried making changes on my index.htm page as it is only attached to a single Dynamic Web Template. I know that the alignment
pertains to a table but I'm not sure exactly which table or where. Following are some quick questions:
|
| 1) Can the issue be resolved by aligning the position in the DWT Page or will it have to be applied to the content of every page
in the site? (The site is for a clothing manufacturer and there are over 500 pages)
|
| 2) Is the alignment issue related to the entire table or do I have to change alignment in every cell in each of the tables?
|
| I don't know if this is relevant but there are 2 layers on the DWT that are absolutely positioned. They needed to be that way in
order to display correctly on the attached pages. I didn't think absolute positioning would be a problem for a DWT. The use of
layers and positioning was one of the reasons that I switched from shared borders.
|
| Do you have any idea why this works in Netscape but not IE?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Mike
|
|
| _____________________________________________
| SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
| "Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
| To find the best Newsgroup for FrontPage support see:
| http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
| _____________________________________________
|
|
| | Yes,
| |
| | The URL is
| |
| | http://www.leeandersen.com
| |
| | Thanks
| |
| | Mike

 

[Mike Becker]

Stefan,

Thank you VERY much for your assistance. I really do appreciate you taking time to look at the site and address my issue personally.

Good luck with all you do.

Mike Becker