[Techtalk] Fixing up live.linuxchix.org

Mary mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org
Thu May 26 13:50:38 EST 2005


On Wed, May 25, 2005, Meryll Larkin wrote:
> Yeah, I know what is causing it:
> 
> DIV tags.  I never use them.  There may be other things too and I don't have
> time to research them right now (as I'm studying for a test), but here is
> what I would do for starters:
> 
> 1.  Put the HTML page in a proper table to control the edges.
> 2.  Replace <div with <span  
>     <span class="livecontainer"
> 3.  If you are using <div for SPACING (Space formatting) of any kind,
> replace it with tables.  
> Do not control spacing with <div  It is not rendered the same by all
> browsers.  Use <span for text formatting.

Have you verified this for this particular page? The problem I have with
this is that I can do this, but then I need someone who actually had the
problem to verify that it's fixed for me. Can you see the problem
yourself?

-Mary


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