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This is Driving me Crazy! Can Anyone Help?

by tjmiller
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Can anybody tell me why my optin form shows up centered in Firefox, but not in Internet Explorer. I can't see anything that would cause it.

If someone could check this page in both browsers, and tell me what you think, I would appreciate it.

Teresa

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  • Profile picture of the author crushthenet
    I get an internal server error when I try and access that page.
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    Can't tell you; the site returns a 500 error at the moment.
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  • Profile picture of the author longdrv4u
    Here is what I saw


    Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
    Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@bookflips.fitlife101.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
    Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at bookflips.com Port 80
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  • Profile picture of the author tjmiller
    Crap! Sorry, I meant Don't Miss Your Book Flips Updates!

    I always do that.
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  • Profile picture of the author crushthenet
    Maybe you could try and change this code....

    Code:
    <p style="text-align: center;"> 

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://forms.aweber.com/form/03/1346749603.js"></script></p>
    to this....

    Code:
     <p style="margin: 0 auto;"> 

 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://forms.aweber.com/form/03/1346749603.js"></script></p>
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    • Profile picture of the author tjmiller
      Originally Posted by crushthenet View Post

      Maybe you could try and change this code....

      Code:
      <p style="text-align: center;"> 

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://forms.aweber.com/form/03/1346749603.js"></script></p>
      to this....

      Code:
       <p style="margin: 0 auto;"> 

 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://forms.aweber.com/form/03/1346749603.js"></script></p>
      No, that didn't do it. The IE one still won't center. I just don't get it. I have had other things that look totally different from one browser to another. Why does that happen? Most of my stuff seems to look "right" in Firefox, but not right in IE.

      Sigh...
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  • Profile picture of the author crushthenet
    What version of IE are you using? I put that code into a blank HTML page and it centered fine for IE8 and FireFox. IE is pretty well known among web developers/designers for being a big pain in the a**.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sarge
      Everything is centered fine for me as well. Both ff and ie.


      ie8
      ff 3.5.8


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  • Profile picture of the author bigdaddy99
    For me, in FF it's fine, and in ie it's centered when I run it full screen, but when I shrink my ie window, it's a bit to the left.

    For other browsers, it may be worth a visit to Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test - Browsershots to see how it looks in other browsers as well.

    It also checks different versions of IE.

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  • Profile picture of the author tjmiller
    Well, then. I just don't know. I have IE8 as well, and my form is NOT centered. I guess if everybody else is seeing it right, I should stop worrying about it.

    But I hate not being able to just FIGURE IT OUT. (I think that I have control issues.)

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  • Profile picture of the author crushthenet
    You can always validate your HTML. Usually clearing up those problems will fix most strange issues with IE. When I put the code into a blank HTML page it's fine, but when I go look at it at your URL it's not right, so it's probably an error somewhere else in the page.

    The W3C Markup Validation Service
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  • Profile picture of the author tjmiller
    That Validation thing is pretty cool, and it found some errors. Problem is, I wasn't real sure what to do with them. I used the "Clean up Markup with HTML Tidy" and then pasted the results, but it didn't fix the problem.

    This is way deeper into the code side than I have ever been. I usually work from a template, or a pre-designed site, and just dip into the code side occasionally.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
      It looks to me as though your whole page is off, in both IE and firefox, you have a double header graphic that drops, I dont think thats the way that page is supposed to look at all....

      Your paragraph class="c5" should be centered its not......you have this
      in your css styles-- p.c5 {margin: 0pt auto;}

      which controls this paragraph class---
      <p class="c5"><script type="text/javascript" src="yourawebercode">

      You should change your css code to this I believe....
      p.c5 {text-align:center}

      If you have the original psd file I maybe able to fix it for you, meaning correct the way the page looks if I can figure out what went wrong with your graphics, because the content box at the bottom is way off also.....
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      • Profile picture of the author tjmiller
        Originally Posted by EWGQDD View Post

        It looks to me as though your whole page is off, in both IE and firefox, you have a double header graphic that drops, I dont think thats the way that page is supposed to look at all....

        Your paragraph class="c5" should be centered its not......you have this
        in your css styles-- p.c5 {margin: 0pt auto;}

        which controls this paragraph class---
        <p class="c5"><script type="text/javascript" src="yourawebercode">

        You should change your css code to this I believe....
        p.c5 {text-align:center}

        If you have the original psd file I maybe able to fix it for you, meaning correct the way the page looks if I can figure out what went wrong with your graphics, because the content box at the bottom is way off also.....

        Whoa! I don't know what you just said.

        Ok, except for the double header thing.. I went back and looked, that only happened after I pasted the "HTML Tidy" code. I put it back to what it was before, and that is fixed.

        I still don't have the opt-in centered in IE though.

        I am not sure what css code you are talking about. I have been working strictly in html. The part you mention above about the margin: 0pt auto vs align: center is something that I had changed earlier in the html. I originally had it as align center, and I changed it at the suggestion of crushthenet (see post #6 above.)

        The only thing that has made any difference is when I used the "HTML Tidy" thing, and that only messed up more things.
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  • Profile picture of the author bigdaddy99
    crushthenet has a great point - after i see that I have an issue, the next step is to validate the site - my last internet exploder issues were fixed after I validated the site and fixed all the errors it found.

    I'm afraid that getting all these stupid browsers to look the same is still not very easy.

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  • Profile picture of the author bigdaddy99
    My process for fixing the errors was to google them first, and If I couldn't find any relevant posts, make a backup, and then start deleting stuff that looked like it was causing the problem.

    Even the google searches weren't the end all solution. Most of my problems were weird syntax things - between moving lines around and commenting out sections, it all went pretty quick really.

    Now i'm equally invalid in all browsers

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