I’ve been working on coding a personal website from scratch in my free time, and have gotten the layout mostly looking like I wanted. But for the life of me, I cannot figure out why Firefox does not align the ‘dropdown menu items’ (‘about’, ‘blog’, etc.) BELOW the background image into the dark grey area like it does in Safari.
HTML Page (dropdown menu javascript not included):
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>The Hominis Inquiry</title>
<link href="hominquiry.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script language="javascript" src="hominquiry.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<!--<script type="text/javascript">
/*
function toggleSound()
{if (button.checked)
{sound=true}
else
{sound=false}}
*/
</script> -->
<body onload="folded()">
<h1>
<div class="title">
<img src="leftbmk.jpg" height="30%" width="15%" align="left" />
<img src="rightbmk.jpg" height="30%" width="15%" align="right" />
<a href="index.htm" target="_top" onmmouseover="hominis_define()" title="Return to Homepage">
<span class="title">The Hominis Inquiry</span><br/>
A Perpetually Inchoate Exegesis about Ourselves
</a>
</div>
</h1>
<h2>
<div class="about" id="about" onmouseover="unfold('about')" onmouseout="fold('about')">
<a href="about.htm" >
About
</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="about.htm#site" class="underline">The Site</a></li>
<li><a href="about.htm#" class="underline">More Schpiel</a></li>
<li><a href="about.htm#issues" class="underline">Preamble on Social Issues</a></li>
<li><a href="about.htm#author" class="underline">The Author</a></li>
<li><a href="about.htm#source">Open Source Projects</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="blog" id="blog" onmouseover="unfold('blog')" onmouseout="fold('blog')">
<a href="blog.htm">
Blog
</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="blog.htm#recent" class="underline">Current</a></li>
<li><a href="blog.htm" class="underline">Search by Date</a></li>
<li><a href="blog.htm" class="underline">Search by Topic</a></li>
<li><a href="blog.htm" class="underline">Search by Blogger</a></li>
<li><a href="blog.htm">All Blogs</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="research" id="research" onmouseover="unfold('research')" onmouseout="fold('research')">
<a href="lab.htm">
Academic Research/ <br/> Papers
</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="research.htm#recent" class="underline">Epistemology</a></li>
<li><a href="research.htm#" class="underline">Research</a></li>
<li><a href="research.htm#" class="underline">Essays</a></li>
<li><a href="research.htm#" class="underline">Computer Simulation</a></li>
<li><a href="research.htm#">More Fun Stuff</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="hypercourse" id="hypercourse" onmouseover="unfold('hypercourse')" onmouseout="fold('hypercourse')">
<a href="hypercourse.htm">
Hyper-Courses <br/> On Demand
</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="hypercourse/physics.htm" class="underline">Physics (Algebra-Based)</a></li>
<li><a href="hypercourse/diffeq.htm#" class="underline">Differential Equations</a></li>
<li><a href="hypercourse.htm#" class="underline">Other University Studies</a></li>
<li><a href="hypercourse.htm#" class="underline">Discussions/Suggestions</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="links" id="links" onmouseover="unfold('links')" onmouseout="fold('links')">
<a href ="links.htm">
Other Arbitrarily <br/> Awesome Links
</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="links.htm">Me being Chopped Liver</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="contact" id="contact" onmouseover="unfold('contact')" onmouseout="fold('contact')">
<form id="startsearch">
<a href>
Contact
</a> <br/><br/><br/>
<input type="text" id="sbox" size="15" value="(under rennovation)">
<input type="button" id="sbutt" value="Find"
</form>
</div>
</h2>
<table border="2" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" align="center" valign="center">
<tr><image src="about.jpg"></tr> <tr><image src="blog.jpg"></tr></td>
<tr><image src="issues.jpg"></tr> <tr><image src="mybooks.jpg"></tr></td>
</table>
<div class="hiportal" id="hiportal">
<p>
Welcome to the HIportal
UPDATES<br/><br/>
<u>(4/1/10) - Site Launched</u>:<br/>
This is not an April Fools' joke... well maybe somewhat. Because of my lofty ambition to write this website from scratch,
the pages are currently, not the prettiest. Feedback from viewers will definitely be crucial throughout the development
of this page; though it may be better to hold on to the comments until I get the site up to more functional scale (forseeing
how radically things will change during that process). I think I really just wanted the gratification of getting a site up
to public view (wooOOOo!). Right now, the main features really are a draft of the 'about' page and a largely incomplete
chapter 2 of my physics e-book for high school students. Keep checking back for updates, of which there will be many these upcoming
few weeks...<br/>
Goals in sight: Keep this page alive, Upload fuller versions of ebook chapters 2-3
Long-term Technical: Implement a wiki engine to allow additions of news events by registered users
</p>
</div>
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</body>
</html>
This is the CSS:
body {background-color:#606060; color:white}
h1 {background-color:#606060; color:white; background-image:url(hicon_beta.jpg); font-size:100%; text-align:center; font-weight:700; text-decoration:none; font-family:Verdana}
h2 {color:#0000A0; background-color:#FFCCCC; font-size:200%; text-align:center; font-style:italic; font-weight:700; font-family: MS Gothic}
h3 {color:black; background-color:#DDDDDD}
div.title {position:absolute; left:0%; width:100%; text-align:center; background-image:url(hicon_beta.jpg); cursor:help}
span.title {color:maroon; font-size:300%; font-weight:900; font-family:papyrus; text-align:center}
div.about {position:absolute; top:31.2%; bottom:34%; left:5%; width:15%; color:red; font-size:50%; text-align:center; z-index:1; overflow:hidden}
div.blog {position:absolute; top:31.2%; bottom:34%; left:21%; width:15%; color:red; font-size:50%; text-align:center; z-index:1; overflow:hidden}
div.research {position:absolute; top:31.2%; bottom:34%; left:37%; width:15%; color:red; font-size:50%; text-align:center; z-index:1; overflow:hidden}
div.hypercourse {position:absolute; top:31.2%; bottom:34%; left:53%; width:15%; color:red; font-size:50%; text-align:center; z-index:1; overflow:hidden}
div.links {position:absolute; top:31.2%; bottom:34%; left:69%; width:15%; color:red; font-size:50%; text-align:center; z-index:1; overflow:hidden}
div.contact {position:absolute; top:31.2%; bottom:34%; left:85%; width:10%; color:red; font-size:50%; text-align:center; z-index:1; overflow:hidden}
div.hiportal {position:absolute; top:35%; bottom:100%; left:10%; width:80%; background-color:silver}
p {background-color:silver; color:#220088; font-weight:500; text-align:left}
a:link {text-decoration:none; color:red}
a:visited {text-decoration:none; color:red}
a:hover {background-color:#FFFFDD; text-decoration:none}
dropdown.menu {background-color:#606060; color:#FFFFDD}
Sorry about the messy code. If anyone can shed light on what the problem might be here though, that would be awesome. Thanks!
Even though you seem to know a lot about HTML and CSS, there are things you have to correct. Among others, you have to add a document type.
I found the tutorials at HTML Dog very useful when I started learning HTML and CSS. Even though you’re clearly not a beginner, I suggest you start at http://htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/ to learn about, among others, document type and character encoding.
Also, as is already pointed out above, use http://validator.w3.org A LOT to make sure your code is valid. It’s not fool-proof but at least the most fool-proof HTML validator I have seen.