bad absolute positioning or random crazyness?

mishagos · April 3rd, 2009, 06:56 PM

Hi,

I can't seem to figure out why this menu bar is poking out wrong, ONLY on this page with dynamic content. All other pages work fine. Ideas?
http://www.genxbizcoach.com/gen_x_bu..._resources.php

Thanks Richard,

Ian

philip_cole · April 4th, 2009, 06:02 AM

Did you mean to put the menu inside text_area_div? This has relative positioning of left 240px and so could be why the menu is popping out.
On http://www.genxbizcoach.com/about_ge..._education.php you have the menu outside of text_area_div, which seems a more sensible place for it.

HTH
Phil

philip_cole · April 4th, 2009, 06:08 AM

I think i see the issue. Just under the assessments heading you have this code

html4strict Code:

<p class="stTxt"><p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;">
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Co-authored by Deanne DeMarco,<span style=</p>

This opens two spans which aren't closed anywhere, and there is another one which isn't formed properly. I guess this is your dynamic code not outputting quite right.

Phil

mishagos · April 4th, 2009, 11:54 AM

LOL ... Thanks, Phil. The problem turned out to be that I was using TinyMCE, a powerful and otherwise fantastic tool for formatting within textareas and dynamic content for non-geeky folks, but every now and then it formats things you don't expect... and since I cut it off at x characters, it cut off the closing tag.

Thank you.

Ian