Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / CSS / December 2007

I haven't had too much experience with CSS and I am facing this major
issue where my layout looks terrible on Safari and also on IE. It
seems to be alright on Firefox which is what I used to test my
functionality and layout while writing the page. I have no idea what I

Is it possible to line up one's body text with the text in a numbered
heading, other than by using 2-column borderless tables? As in the
following mock-up: http://tinyurl.com/23xktn
Dave

I'm in the process of converting all the presentation aspects of my tables
from HTML to CSS (finally). I've run into a snag where the content of the
left column is spilling over to the next. I increased the width of the table
to no avail. The left and middle columns remain small, ...

I have struggling with this for 2 days. I searched far and wide in
google and msdn etc. No luck. Hope one of you may have seen this. I am
seeing this in ie6 and ie7
What I want

I sometimes need to do pages that are continued from a previous page,
so the numbering needs to start with maybe 5. - is this possible? Or
do I have to use manual numbering and borderless tables in order to
achieve this?

I'm a self-taught webmaster, and have never had the luxury of working
under a more experienced colleague.  For the most part I do fine, but
occasionally I find there's some glaring holes in my knowledge.  This
may be one:

Is it possible with css to make the numbers in a numbered list left-
aligned (as in this mock-up where I've used 2-column tables to achieve
it: http://tinyurl.com/yv6njd - as opposed to the default of right-
aligned numbers as in this mock-up: http://tinyurl.com/2dxer5)?

url - http://projects.missioninternet.com/proweb/index.php
css - http://projects.missioninternet.com/proweb/css/proweb.css
How can I get FF to display this page like IE? For illustration
purposes I have a grey border around each div class I call infoSection

I'm having a CSS positioning problem and hope someone can help me out please?
If you take a look at this test page:
http://www.greenflagaward.org.uk/home/beta
In Safari 3.0 and Firefox 2.0 on the Mac, the header links for

So I'm trying to get my head round css and divs - updating previously table
based websites to have css layouts.
After banging my head against the wall trying to work out why netscape
wasn't interpreting my box widths correctly, I installed firefox, read more

I am using csshover.htc to allow me to use the hover pseudo element in IE6.
The following excerpted code works fine in IE6 when I load the file locally.
When I upload it to my ISP and load it from there in IE6, it doesn't work.
(It works fine in all other browsers, both locally ...

The short version:  Is there a way to get embedded styles to work on
files that are displayed in a page using the shtml Include method?
My work intranet site uses Front Page dynamic templates.  Please no
flames; I'm not a FP fan either but that's the only tool I'm given, and

I would like to "pad" the rows of my table.  Cellpadding and
Cellspacing aren't an option cause they affect both the horizontal as
well as vertical axis.
So I used to do essentially a row with nothing more than one   in

problem url - http://projects.missioninternet.com/proweb/clients/test.php
javascript fix url - http://projects.missioninternet.com/proweb/clients/test2.php
Please go to the "problem url" to see that the "Reports" link unlike
the links below it is black in color and does not respond ...

After getting great advice on positioning, I've edited my code and it's
looking more stable.
Now I need a little assistance with background image placement.
Please click on this link: www.ibtestsite.info