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**Deep Despair2** · 07-13-2005, 07:54 AM

Help Please!

I am being driven nuts by a page width issue.

All looks good in Dreamweaver, then I check in IE and Firefox browsers.

I then copy DW code and paste HTML into my Shopping software (Evolve Merchant 4). Despite all widths being 100, 98 or 95%, the pages never display over a full page on opening.

I have to build my pages in four sections - header, footer, body and nav bar - it's the body that's causing the issues. The Evlolve page width is set at 100%.

However, if I go to 'About Us' - a page that does display at 100% correctly on opening (more often than not, but not always) - and then open the homepages, they are all great in IE, but not in Firefox. The page width code is the same in About Us as in other pages.

I thought that my firewall influenced the widths....... but again not consistently.

The site is www.watchmore.tv. How do I find this bug - I have checked each page code, the admin section, the scripting section, the Evolve sections..... How on earth do I go about fixing it? ANY suggested solutions are sooooooooo welcome.

Thanks

**chrishirst** · 07-13-2005, 05:00 PM

You only have a partial doctype which will allow IE to be in"quirks" mode. Start with a Full Doctype first of all and then set the design up and test in FF first, IE should display the same with maybe only minor differences.

**Deep Despair2** · 07-14-2005, 10:04 AM

Hi Chris

Thank you ever so much for the tip.

I know that this would be normally found at the top of the page, but with Evolve, as there are the four individual sections where do I place?

1. Genre headers
2. Body of each page
3. Elsewhere

Thanks once again

**Deep Despair2** · 07-14-2005, 02:29 PM

Hello again

I have tried to insert Doc Type into page body, genre headers and main header (made a lot of sense). For some reason, the set up within Evolve will not allow this (insert on site page > save, then return and code has gone).

Now at a loss. That little glimmer of hope has now faded..........Any suggestions where I ight be able to insert this in the code back end? I also have a scripts section, but one appears to be for stlye script and another for javascript.

H..E..L..P

**chrishirst** · 07-14-2005, 02:40 PM

You need to locate this

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

in the templates

and replace it with the full doctype for the same version (4.01 transitional)
It may not be in the template you can edit directly but may be in a configuration file somewhere. 'fraid I know nothing about Evolve so I can't tell you exactly where it goes.

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