Re: desperate for Netscape help

I think that the inline styles for the div s could be the problem. Some time
back I had to remove inline styles and add the positioning etc to the
stylesheet in the header in order to make something work in Netscape.

I also found, on designing forms, that the width of textareas etc is
different on IE and Netscape - and had to use both size and css to get a
similar result in IE and NN from single line text input


<input  type="text" name="make" size="12" ID="make">

was paired with a styelsheet line:

#make { width: 160px}


Actually, why use a textarea? It breaks the lines in odd places, depending
on window width. I am not sure, but couldn't you get the same effect from
the use of another div, or even a single cell table?

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Coats" <lcoats(at)gte.net>
To: "Nate Harel" <nharel(at)consultant.com>
Cc: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: desperate for Netscape help


>
>
> Nate Harel wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been working on this page with IE to get just the right operation
> > and finally got it.
> > It looked and worked well. I then went to look at it with Netscape and -
> > DISASTER.
> >
> > Can you please help?
> >
> > http://nettech-hosting.net/staging/index.html
>
> Looked fine in Netscape at 1280x1024, but when I reduced to a smaller
> window, the textarea overflowed and was only partly visible. I haven't
done
> a lot with positioning myself, so I don't really know what you'll have to
do
> differently, Even in IE, things aren't perfect. in a 640-pixel-wide
window,
> the textarea sticks out past the edge and the scroll bar is not visible or
> accessible - and in IE the mouse wheel isn't working (it works fine in
> Netscape). And even though the textarea is partly off-screen, it still
> covers part of the menu - "Home" is completely covered, and I only see
> "Part" for the next option.
>
> One problem with using textareas to display your content is that the user

> cannot resize the text.
>
> You might have better luck with a frames design (the menu in a left frame
> and the contents appearing in a right frame).
>
> Larry Coats
>
>

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