HTML Help

seeeker · Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 6

Hi,
I can usually troubleshoot basic html issues, but don't have much knowledge of frames. The page design is a basic 2-frame horizontal format with body content files that swap in and out from a header menu bar.

Both header and body files are centered, and should be visually seamless.

The problem is when the main body frame is set to scrolling="yes", the scroll bar in the browser window offsets the center of the frame, and the two frames appear out of alignment.

If the main body frame is set to scrolling="no" then they line up properly (but obviously cannot scroll down through the page). You can view the issue here:
http://www.sequentz.com/menutest/index.htm

I would greatly appreciate some help sorting this out, so that the two files align seamlessly and the bottom file can scroll. Thanks!

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 3593 Location: Biloxi, MS

Was going to try to get it straightened out, but you have coding errors on the two pages:

http://www.sequentz.com/menutest/header.html:

CSS
HTML

http://www.sequentz.com/menutest/home.html:

CSS
HTML

seeeker · Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 6

I don't necessarily understand the nature of the errors being reported. Most of the errors for home.html seem to be telling me that in "</td>" the ">" is misplaced or something.
Or that an 'alt=""' tag is required for a basic img tag, then below highlights just a ">" tag, so this doesn't make sense (or it is just not explained well in their error descriptions).

I have checked syntax in my html editor also and repaired any stray elements. Uploading and refreshing the validator page then seems to present more errors than each preceding version.

So, I don't know wtf is happening. But I'm not sure it has any relevance to my original question?

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 3593 Location: Biloxi, MS

When you have coding errors, especially the critical ones, it can and usually does affect the problems you are having. The minor ones, like missing alt attributes, do not affect anything but does upset the validator. :P

I will help you with your original problem, but do not have time to correct your other pages.