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Would like any advice or help I can get. My page <edit> loads with the text to the far left at first, then the text bounces back into position after the page finishes loading. In some instances, the text doesn't bounce back and is stuck over to the left of the page. I believe this has something to do with my tables, but am not sure why.
To view the site, visit: <edit> If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know. Thanks.
-Grey Cow
[edited by: tedster at 6:53 pm (utc) on June 2, 2003]
[edit reason] no personal URLs, please [/edit]
You didn't mention if you validated your page [validator.w3.org] - that's always the first step in debugging a page.
Assuming that there is no serious problem with your table code, what you've described sound like browser behavior I see on some pages with IE, especially when tables and divs are both used for layout on the same page. The browser does a prelminary rendering and then adjusts things as it parses the rest of the file.
I rarely see IE get stuck on valid code, unless for some reason all the page elements are not being sent and a server is hanging - that can happen most especially if a different server is used for images, data retrieval, or javascript tracking.
Other browsers do similar things in terms of partial page renderings that later get adjusted when the full page is downloaded and parsed, but I assume you are talking about IE here, because you didn't mention a particular browser.
The browser I am using is IE 6, so based on your response, I guess it might be that i'm using DHTML rollover menus that have DIV classes along with my tables? Could this be the reason?
I tried validating the site through the link you provided and it says that it couldn't extract. Not sure why. Thanks again!
-Grey Cow
tried validating the site through the link you provided and it says that it couldn't extract
It sounds like your page may not begin with a DTD or a proper character encoding of some kind.
If you don't want to make changes to your live pages right now to add a DTD, you can use The W3C's "Extended Interface" at [validator.w3.org...] -- there you can just take your choice of DTD and character encoding from the dropdown menu they provide.
Still clueless as to why the page renders so poorly then gets stuck. Anyone's help is much appreciated, thanks!
-Grey Cow
