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google not caching css-p pages properly

anyone else seen this?

         

sniffer

2:17 am on Oct 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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G's cache of my site pages are not showing properly seemingly because the pages are designed using style sheet positioning. (css-p) Divs are out of place and overlayed when they shouldnt be, making a big ol' mess...

The pages on their own are fine

Has anybody else experience this? Any forseeable problems?

Mozart

4:51 am on Oct 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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hi sniffer.

Google displays your page as if it were a part of its own disclaimer page. So, on top of your page first comes the Google blurb that they are not responsible for your content, that one should look at the page directly etc.

Then comes your page, in full, including your head section of the html and thus your style sheets as a reference.

Now, if you use absolute positioning in your style sheets to, say place a div starting at position 1,1 then it will still do that. Even though your content now starts much lower on the page.

There's no solution to that problem except using relative positioning in your css. Hope that helps!

Mozart

Mozart

4:56 am on Oct 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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PS: Just thought of a way how you can test your pages before G gets them.

Write your page. Write another page with a few paragraphs of blurb, similar to Google. Now simply add your page in full after that, starting at your <html> tag and finishing off with your </html> tag and see how the divs get messed up.

Mozart

sniffer

12:27 am on Oct 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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thanks :)