CSS and IE woes

Inquisitor · 19 Jun 2006 at 19:06

IE is being uncooperative:
Internet Explorer

For comparison, this is what it's supposed to look like:
Firefox
Opera

Unfortunately that subdomain is password protected, so you can't see the actual page first hand, but I've copied the relevant files to here:
http://www.britishspacecorps.co.uk/login.html

If I take the <h2> out, IE seems to display it without problem, but I can't seem to get it to work with it.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Beansprout · 19 Jun 2006 at 19:17

Bah I can't help, it works fine in IE7.

One thing though - don't use a table to setup the form - take out all the table stuff and style the <label> and <input> etc with CSS too - they behave just as well

Inquisitor · 19 Jun 2006 at 19:35

Beansprout said:
One thing though - don't use a table to setup the form - take out all the table stuff and style the <label> and <input> etc with CSS too - they behave just as well

But wouldn't that be forfeiting the control you have over the layout of them? Without a table, you wouldn't be able to control things like the left/right align them properly, for example, would you? It might also make it the form more rigid in its design. I can't help thinking that something like a form shouldn't consist of floating inline elements, and needs a structure, which a table would be ideal for, as it's essentially in tabular format, albeit not visible.

toosepin · 19 Jun 2006 at 21:46

Have you cleared all your floats? I haven't had a chance to look at the code yet but I might later.

Mr_L · 20 Jun 2006 at 16:24

Just spotted this article in the A List Apart RSS feed, might be useful to you.

Prettier Accessible Forms

Beansprout · 20 Jun 2006 at 16:48

Perfect timing

zetec452 · 20 Jun 2006 at 16:57

I love alistapart.

Beansprout · 20 Jun 2006 at 16:59

Me love it Long time.

robmiller · 20 Jun 2006 at 17:26

Inquisitor said:
But wouldn't that be forfeiting the control you have over the layout of them? Without a table, you wouldn't be able to control things like the left/right align them properly, for example, would you? It might also make it the form more rigid in its design. I can't help thinking that something like a form shouldn't consist of floating inline elements, and needs a structure, which a table would be ideal for, as it's essentially in tabular format, albeit not visible.

I was going to type a proper reply but I think this will do:

No.

Beansprout · 20 Jun 2006 at 17:38

Inquisitor said:
Without a table, you wouldn't be able to control things like the left/right align them properly, for example, would you?

That's what CSS does, and forms simply consist of more elements for you to bludgeon into obedience with CSS

robmiller · 20 Jun 2006 at 18:00

You've been poncing about with C# too long, it's gone to your head

Inquisitor · 20 Jun 2006 at 22:18

Beansprout said:
That's what CSS does, and forms simply consist of more elements for you to bludgeon into obedience with CSS

I guess you have a point, I just preferred having an actual structure, rather than loose inline elements. That article seems to acomplish this more elegantly though, so I'll have a look at that

robmiller said:
You've been poncing about with C# too long, it's gone to your head

Shut up you

And as for the error box, does anyone have any ideas? I've tried clearing the box, but to no avail