astridv: (Default)
astridv ([personal profile] astridv) wrote2005-12-27 06:53 pm

css, anyone?

My little brunch today lasted seven hours. I love brunching! I may not have done any of the countless things I planned to do, but I'm very relaxed (and full). I still didn't get around to reading my friends list. Guess I'll have to take tomorrow off, too. Oh damn :)

Okay, css question: there still remains a little problem regarding the stylesheets. It may come down to nothing more than an ill-located typo (as seems to be the case quite often).

As an example, here's the Quicksearch page of the BBF archive. Between the black border and the text inside, there's supposed to be a 10 pixel wide margin. But in Internet Explorer, that margin just gets ignored. In Firefox it looks fine. I haven't tried it in Netscape or Opera yet.

This is what it looks like when I view it in Firefox (and what it's supposed to look like):


And in Internet Explorer:


Here's the stylesheet.

And this is the part in question, I think:
table.outline {
    background: #ffffff;
    color: #000000;
    padding-top: 10px;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
    padding-left: 10px;
    margin: 0px;
    border: 3px solid black;
}

If I change the values there, the changes show in Firefox but again, not in IE. Unfortunately I know next to nothing about stylesheets. I have this really cool, comprehensive, three inches thick book about web programming, though. But in this case, that didn't help either. I'm grateful for any suggestions.

Also, I applied a few last-minute changes to the search engine last week; it should work properly now.

Post a comment in response:

(will be screened)
(will be screened if not validated)
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

If you are unable to use this captcha for any reason, please contact us by email at support@dreamwidth.org