CSS is th prob with IE

[forumnz]

Ok so my site works very well in all major browsers except IE 7.0 and 6.0. As you can see from the homepage (www.netport.co.nz) there is a massive gap half way down in the main content area.

 

I can't figure out what it is.

 

Please assist.

 

Thanks heaps!

Sam.

[bronzemonkey]

You've got some basic errors that need to be resolved. You should also check to see whether your client's sites are also affected.

 

- Your markup is not valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional

- Your CSS is not valid

 

Use the W3C validators - http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/ - to find and correct the problems. Remove the extra meta tag for "content-type" that is in the head, and remove align="" and bgcolor="" from your markup too. Should only take a few minutes to do all that.

 

I'd also recommend that you use an unordered list for your navigation links.

 

If the issue is still present after you've validated your code then we'll see what is wrong.

[dbrimlow]

While bronzemonkey pointed out that you have errors all over, the specific issue is here:

 

  <div id="blue"><div class="newmaintext">You will receive: </div>
  <ul>
<li>Free website</li>
<li>Free CMS - easily update your site</li>
<li>Free email addresses - unlimited</li>
<li>Free website development </li>
<li>Free domain name - www.your-site.co.nz</li>
<li>Free webstats</li>

<p>All you pay is $39<sup>.95</sup> per month for hosting which is mandatory with every website</p>
<p align="right"><strong>... now there's one great deal!</strong></p>
  </ul>
  </div>

 

"You will receive:" is basically text hanging out in the middle of no where alone and naked. Put some clothes on it! Text should be contained in a block element - paragraph, heading, etc.

 

But that's just a contributer to the real issue - you put paragraphs inside of a list (a no-no). Move the closing /ul to after the last list item.

 

I also recommend setting a default font-size in your body tag.

 

You have a lot of errors that are easily fixed. Just use the validation tool to find them.