My page works great in firefox, but in IE the top navigation div (top_navigation) SHOULD have a background color of red for testing perposes, but the color doesn't change! It looks like its inheriting the background color #e4dfd7 from the css body tag. I've tried using an inline style, or using !important, nothing works, and I have to make this available in at least IE6 and up.
Thanks in advance for any help!
html code -> http://cosmosristorante.com/ox/index.asp (just plain html)
css code -> http://cosmosristorante.com/ox/core.css
css-ie code -> http://cosmosristorante.com/ox/core-ie.css

Not sure what your problem is, I can see a red background on the UL #top_navigation in IE 6. However, it appears that you have a gray backgound on the <LI> elements AND a color on the <a>, both of which are on TOP of the red.

Run your site through the W3C validator. You have some code that is out of place.

http://validator.w3.org/

EDIT:
Use the CSS Validator too.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Joder ---- It was run through the w3c validator, and passed. You can see that by looking at the bottom of my page, I put the w3c validator compliance button on it!

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0

35 Errors

EVERYTHING is validated now. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Did you fix what LadynRed told you?

Your HTML has all these id's and classes that don't exist in the CSS. Cleaning it up would make it easier to troubleshoot.

She didn't tell me to do anything?! I have classes and id's that aren't in that page because there is more to the site then what you see, I only posted the relevent page and code that I need help with. I haven't gotten one answer as of yet. :-/

I only posted the relevent page and code that I need help with. I haven't gotten one answer as of yet.

That's because the problem may well be in code you HAVEN'T shown.

To debug something requires the WHOLE problem.

That is the whole problem, other pages are unrelated. This is the worst forum I've ever used, thanks for zero sugguestions folks.

Originally Posted by squirrelradio

She didn't tell me to do anything?! I have classes and id's that aren't in that page because there is more to the site then what you see, I only posted the relevent page and code that I need help with. I haven't gotten one answer as of yet. :-/

1) The id's and classes that you didn't show the CSS are in the middle of the navigation.

2) As I already stated, LadynRed told you in her reply that you have color in an element on top of color in another element. Change the grey backgrround color if you want the red to show through.

3) To be quite honest, you need to learn how to use the CSS Validator and validate your code
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcosmosristorante.com%2F ox%2Findex.asp&warning=1&profile=css21&usermedium= all
You keep saying it validates when it hasn't.

This is the worst forum I've ever used,

And have "the other" forums provided you with an answer as yet.

Obviously I would guess not seeing as you carry on asking.

It turns out it was the default class at the top which was causing the problem it set a background for the body and a bunch of other elements like 'p' tags. very simple answer, thanks guys.

all code was xhtml and css validated through w3c. i won't bother coming back to this forum, very dissappointing. you're more interested in nit-picking then helping to find an answer. or perhaps you just don't know the answers.

Please don't come to this forum to yell at us when they are trying to help you with something that you don't know. How can you yell at someone for "not knowing" something that you don't know.

you're more interested in nit-picking then helping to find an answer. or perhaps you just don't know the answers.

Oh.. we KNOW the answers, you were just looking for someone to hand it to you on a silver platter. When we didn't do that you got irate. I think if you read enough of the threads here you'll find you get more help here than you'll get in a lot of other forums.