CSS Forum

**silverglade** · 05-13-2009, 12:40 PM

i dont know why but my site is coming up black in firefox. any help greatly appreciated. thanks. derek

here is the site im talking about

http://derekvanderven.com/elegant_shoes/home.html

here is the css for the page

Code:

@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */

#wrapper {
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
width: 820px;
height: 650px;
background-image: url(new_images/black_slices/shoes_top.gif);
}
body {
background-color: #000000;
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
margin: 0 ;
padding: 0;

}
 
#navigation{
width: 820px;
height: 76px;
margin-top: 574px;
} 


#copyright {
margin: 20px auto 0 auto;
text-align:center;
color: #ffffff;
width: 820px;
height: 30px;
}

a:link {
    color: #FFFFFF;

}
a:visited {
    color: #FFFFFF;
}
a:hover {
    color: #FF0000;
}
a:active {
    color: #FFFFFF;
}

p
{ 
text-indent: 20px;
}


/******************ABOUT CODE******************/

#about_wrapper {
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
width: 819px;
height: 700px;
background-image: url(shoe_links/shoe_slice.gif);
    background-repeat:repeat-y; 
}    
#about_header {
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
width: 819px;
height: 81px;
background-image: url(about_black/images/about_header.jpg);
    background-repeat:no-repeat; 
    }
    
#about_navigation {
margin:0 auto 0px auto;
width: 819px;
 height: 60px; 
}
 
#about_info {
margin: 50px auto 0 auto;
width: 400px;
height: 400px;
}

 
    
 

#about_background a {
color: red;
}
 
 
/****************SHOES CODE***************/
#shoes_wrapper {
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
width: 820px;
height: 650px;
background-image: url(new_images/shoes/black_slices/shoes_top.gif); 
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position:0 84px ;
     
}    

#shoes_navigation {
margin:0 auto 0 auto;
width: 820px;
height: 84px;
}


 

 
/*******************ASPEN PAGE 1 CODE ************************/

#aspen1wrapper {

margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
width: 820px;
height: 780px;
background-image: url(aspen/background_slice.gif);
    background-repeat:repeat-y; 
    }
    
#aspen1header {
width: 820px;
height: 87px;
background-image: url(aspen/page1/page1slices/images/aspen_page1_header.jpg);
    background-repeat:no-repeat; 
    }
    
#aspen1navigation {
margin: 50px auto 0 auto;
width: 820;
height: 57;
}

#aspen1text {
    width: 500px;
    height: 150px;
    margin-top: 50px;
    margin-right: auto;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: auto;
}
#aspen1text p {
text-indent-20px;
}
 #aspen {
 margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
 width: 200px;
 height: 20px;
 text-align: center;
 color: red;
 }
 
 #aspen_shoe_links {
    width: 820px;
    height: 350px;
    margin-top: 0px;
    margin-right: auto;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: auto;
 }
 
 #bottom_links {
 margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
 width: 820px;
 height: 20px;
 text-align: center;
 }
 
 #bottom_links a {
 color: blue;
 }
/********************SOHO CODE***************/
#soho1text {
    width: 500px;
    height: 175px;
    margin-top: 50px;
    margin-right: auto;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: auto;
}
#soho1text p {
text-indent-20px;
}
#soho_bottom_links {
 margin: 60px auto 0 auto;
 width: 820px;
 height: 20px;
 text-align: center;
 }
 
 #soho_bottom_links a {
 color: blue;
 }
 
 /**************************LOCATION CODE************************/
 
 #location {
 margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
 width: 200px;
 height: 200px;
 text-align: center;
 color: black;
 }

and here is the html for the page

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<!--thanks to ladynred-->

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link href="elegant.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<title>Elegant Shoes Home</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}
function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
  var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}
function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
  if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
  var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}
//-->
</script>
<style type="text/css">

</style></head>

<body onload="MM_preloadImages('redslices/images/aboutred.jpg','new_images/red_slices/home_red.gif','new_images/red_slices/about_red.gif','new_images/red_slices/shoes_red.gif','new_images/red_slices/press_red.gif','new_images/red_slices/location_red.gif','new_images/red_slices/contact_red.gif')">

<div id="wrapper">

<div id="navigation"><a href="home.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','new_images/red_slices/home_red.gif',1)"><img src="new_images/black_slices/home_black.gif" name="Image1" width="142" height="76" border="0" id="Image1" /></a><a href="about.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image2','','new_images/red_slices/about_red.gif',1)"><img src="new_images/black_slices/about_black.gif" name="Image2" width="108" height="76" border="0" id="Image2" /></a><a href="shoes.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image3','','new_images/red_slices/shoes_red.gif',1)"><img src="new_images/black_slices/shoes_black.gif" name="Image3" width="112" height="76" border="0" id="Image3" /></a><a href="press.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image4','','new_images/red_slices/press_red.gif',1)"><img src="new_images/black_slices/press_black.gif" name="Image4" width="112" height="76" border="0" id="Image4" /></a><a href="news.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image5','','new_images/red_slices/news_red.gif',0)"><img src="new_images/black_slices/news_black.gif" name="Image5" width="99" height="76" border="0" id="Image5" /></a><a href="location.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image6','','new_images/red_slices/location_red.gif',1)"><img src="new_images/black_slices/location_black.gif" name="Image6" width="119" height="76" border="0" id="Image6" /></a><a href="contact.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image7','','new_images/red_slices/contact_red.gif',1)"><img src="new_images/black_slices/contact_black.gif" name="Image7" width="128" height="76" border="0" id="Image7" /></a></div> 
</div>
<!-- end wrapper-->

</body>
</html>

**silverglade** · 05-13-2009, 12:51 PM

nevermind, after about a half hour, i realized i had to add overflow: auto to my wrapper and delete the height again. when will i learn......

**LadynRed** · 05-13-2009, 03:33 PM

Very good - you just have to remember to clear your floats, and that's what the overflow

does for you