Problem with divs (Safari specific)

3plus1 · Joined: 24 Sep 2005 Posts: 1

This is my first post in this forum, so forgive me if I've been a bit dense and picked the wrong place to beg for help!

My vision: a basic site contained within a page. Think of the simplicity of a frameset with a left navigational frame and a right frame for the main content, then forget the whole frames idea and use two divs on one page. Why? Call it a whim. It's always fun to see if you can make a site without frames when the style/content of it is clearly crying out for them.

So there's a background image positioned with CSS and two blog style spaces on top. There's a div on the left for links and general navigation (let's refer to this blog/div as 'nav'), and a div on the right for the welcome message and everything else (let's refer to this as 'main').

All of the site content is contained in 'main', but thanks to a million break tags, you can't really tell unless you're prepared to scroll forever. You click on a link in 'nav' and it jumps to the right place in 'main' thanks to carefully positioned anchors.

Still with me or has my lousy explanation lost you...?

Works beautifully in IE and I had a friend test it for me in Firefox, but for some reason, it doesn't do anything in Safari. I click on a link and instead of jumping to the anchor, nothing happens. Nothing at all.

I've validated the HTML and CSS with wc3 and there's nothing wrong with the coding, apparently. At a loss here!

I should point out at this stage that my host disables javascript, so any cool solutions making use of that wouldn't actually help me out that much at this stage.

Any suggestions very much appreciated! If you'd like to help but my fuzzy explanation isn't helping, please do ask me to clarify any of this.

HTML 4.01/CSS compliant? *scoffs* Then why won't it work in Safari?!

Corey Bryant · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:44 pm

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