Posted by Animesh Kumar on 08/09/05 21:17

Spartanicus wrote:
> Animesh Kumar <animesh1978@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I have launched a testing phase of my website on sanskrit poetry. It
>>uses CSS and HTML only, so far. I was checking my page in IE and Mozilla
>>and the results were nice so far. Yesterday I happen to check the page
>>in Opera and the result was awful :-(
>>
>>http://www.stutimandal.com/gif_misc/vishnu_vandanam.htm
>>
>>Can someone suggest if there is something wrong with the CSS or is it
>>just Opera?
>
>
> Given the subject line you seem to have already made up your mind.
>

No no I haven't made up my mind. Since Mozilla and IE were showing it
properly, I guessed it to be a bug with Opera. Sorry about that.

> Your doctype triggers quirks mode in most browsers. You should use
> strict coding with a matching doctype, dump the mixup between XHTML and
> HTML and the <center> and <font> crap.

I see, so your reply suggests me that <center> is not suitable in HTML.
I am looking at the w3.org site to find out which tags are allowed in
HTML. Btw, does this mean XHTML supports <center> tag? The font tag was
introduced in a jiffy. I will look again at it.

>
> A document should be structured with at least one header, they should
> not be used to select a font size, but in an hierarchical and successive
> manner.
>

Sorry, I didn't get your point here.

> Opera centers the "midcol", since you've not positioned it this is
> perfectly normal behaviour.
>

Okay thanks! I will look more into my buggy design. I just started about
3 months ago with HTML & CSS on a weekend basis, so there will be
sometime since I mature with everything. Thanks for all the suggestions.
If you can find more bugs at my site, I shall be obliged.

PS: any good tutorial on positioning?

Best regards,
Animesh

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