Hi all

I have a problem with the following page http://www.bbcomputing.co.uk/geoac/index.php

I am redesigning some of this company's pages as a college project and am having a problem with the border colours in firefox/netscape. If you don't have firefox/netscape ill tell you the problem... In IE the cell borders are all the right colours and the whole table border is white. However, in FF/NS all of the table borders are just default grey. Does anyone know a workaround for this. At the moment I am simply defining the border colours at college in Dreamweaver using it's tools. Also, the links on the left only work with IE. Can anyone tell me how to define a whole cell and not just the text as a link in FF?

Thanks in advance, Matt

You should NEVER use IE when developing your pages. IE is very forgiving of coding errors, too forgiving.

You have some serious errors in your code. I hope that you know HTML and don't just rely upon DreamWeaver to do it all for you, because you will need to go through the code and make the changes manually since DreamWeaver is not correcting them.

For instance, right after your menu on the left you have a closing BODY and closing HTML tags before you start the main part of the page! Here is what is in the code:

<td bgcolor="#8BCAEB" class="navbutton" onmouseover="style.backgroundColor='#CCCCCC';"
onmouseout="style.backgroundColor='#8BCAEB'">Specs
and Downloads</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</td>
<td colspan="4" valign="top" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="10" rowspan="3" valign="top" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> </td>

Michael J

Holy malformed markup Batman!

That is the nastiest HTML I have ever seen.

Try cleaning up the code some, and use the W3 Validator to check for errors. Right now it only shows 4 errors because you terminate the page (with </body></html>) way too early.

Have just realised what i have done. I include the left hand menu using the PHP include function except that i have been developing the nav file as a separate HTML file. Thanks for pointing that out i will fix that as soon as possible. But would that fix my table border problems?

Matt

One more thing to add is that i would develop my pages in FF but IE is the only browser we have at college and for god only knows what reasons we cannot have FF so i can only fix problems once i get my pages home to my computer.

Matt