Posted by Paul Lautman on 12/30/06 19:49

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> Paul Lautman wrote:
>> rwap wrote:
>>> On Dec 30, 10:20 am, "Paul Lautman" <paul.laut...@btinternet.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Ben C wrote:
>>>>> On 2006-12-29, Paul Lautman <paul.laut...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Ben C wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2006-12-28, Martin Clark <mar...@spl.at> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Paul Lautman wrote...
>>>>>>>>> When viewed in IE6 or Firefox, the list beginning "Unsurpassed
>>>>>>>>> design and manufacturing quality." on the page
>>>>>>>>> http://www.osg-uk.comhas blue arrows as bullets.
>>>>>>>>> However, in IE7, the arrows are hidden under the image to the
>>>>>>>>> left of it. I have tried various ways to rectify this but if I
>>>>>>>>> get it looking OK in IE7, it looks rubbish in FF.
>>>>>>>>> Can someone point me to the correct magic incantation?
> <SNIP>
>
> Well on a quick look your markup is a mess with overly nested TABLEs
> and DIVs and you are not quoting values and using UPPERCASE on some
> element and parameters which are no-nos in XHTML. All this aside I'm
> on dialup so I could see what was happening as images loaded. IE and
> Opera are showing your arrow list images but they a located at the
> left-hand edge of your bits image to the list's left. As the bits
> image loads if covers up your arrows.
>
> Personally I would dump the tables and the overuse of containers and
> try again. A simpler design could yield the same result with a
> fraction of the markup. Also switch from XHTML Transitional >> HTML
> 4.01 Strict will coax better cooperation from IE

Well an awful lot of what you see is generated by Mambo,so my only option
there is to work on the base code, which of course makes upgrading a
nightmare.

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