James,

I suspect there is an easy way to solve this problem.  Instead of having the
table aligned to the left (the one with the paintbrush), create a table with
the paintbrush as a cell and the text placed in a cell to the right of it.
I don't have AOL installed, but I strongly suspect that doing this will
clear up your problem.

Thanks,
Keith D Sellars
WebGraffix
www.webgraffix.com

"Making database sites seem easy"

----- Original Message -----
From: "james" <jamiergroberts(at)hotmail.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 4:21 AM
Subject: AOL (again) e:CSS/XHTML


> Morning/afternoon/evening all:
>
> I'm an occasional designer. I did a site for my wife at
> www.MarisaMartin.com - this is in Validated CSS and Validated XHTML1.0.
> There is a minimal use of tables to keep some order if CSS is unavailable
of
> disabled, but I'm not trying to maintain the look in that case.
>
> It all works fine on recent browsers and with CSS off.
>
> But.
>
> I've has several reports from a non-technical (but interested) relative
that
> the graphics overlaid the text when she looked at it on friends' machines
in
> various countries. Since I have to finish the site now (booking info,
> prices) I thought I'd better look at this and guessed it may be an old AOL
> problem. I installed latest AOL on a spare machine and shuddered when I
saw
> what it did to my pretty site.
>
> So I'm asking for suggestions. I don't want to go to a tables/CSS markup
if
> I can avoid it, but hey, if that's what I gotta do...
>
> What other suggestions do y'all have? I could trap AOL browser strings and
> feed them something else I suppose, or point them at instructions as to
turn
> off AOL graphic mangling, but if they are using AOL they are probably
> non-technical users, no?
>
> Thanks in anticipation, as always.
>
> JMe
>

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