Firefox footer issue

**pheck** · Jan 21, 2009, 21:16

I searched around a lot and could not find an answer to this. uptowndermatology dot com looks fine in IE, but in Firefox the footer is in the middle of the page and overlying the text on some of the bigger pages on the site. Any idea on how to fix this? Thanks.

**RyanReese** · Jan 21, 2009, 21:46

Hi

If you remove the height on "div.scrollvis" it fixes the issue. Also remove overflow:visible as that is default. (Didn't look through your entire code).

Cheers.

**drhowarddrfine** · Jan 21, 2009, 22:00

Originally Posted by pheck

looks fine in IE, but in Firefox....Any idea on how to fix this?

Quit looking at IE as your reference for things working. Always use any other modern browser, such as Firefox, Opera or Safari for your references to how things should work.

You declare HTML, yet are using XHTML end tags (/>). Remove the slashes. You are also using an incomplete doctype. Since you are also using older, deprecated markup, transitional is OK but you shouldn't be using older, deprecated markup. In any case, here's the doctype you should be using:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Validate your html for that list of errors.

**RyanReese** · Jan 21, 2009, 22:27

Wrong. He should not be using transitional.[code]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">[code]

That is what he should be using.

Cheers.

**SoulScratch** · Jan 21, 2009, 22:43

Originally Posted by RyanReese

Wrong. He should not be using transitional.[code]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">[code]

That is what he should be using.

Cheers.

The only "right" is using a proper DTD, regardless of what it may be.

**RyanReese** · Jan 21, 2009, 22:47

Originally Posted by SoulScratch

The only "right" is using a proper DTD, regardless of what it may be.

Hi

No: transitional DTD's are only supposed to be used during transitional phases in which you are converting to a more standard page. For now it would be fine, but he really should make the switch over to a strict dtd.

Cheers.

**Ed Seedhouse** · Jan 22, 2009, 08:44

Originally Posted by RyanReese

No: transitional DTD's are only supposed to be used during transitional phases in which you are converting to a more standard page. For now it would be fine, but he really should make the switch over to a strict dtd.

Ryan is of course right. And I will add that since one can then ignore all sorts of deprecated tags and work with a smaller and better designed set of tags, it's actually quite a bit easier to code that way.

**RyanReese** · Jan 22, 2009, 08:51

So did my suggestion work? In post#2?

**drhowarddrfine** · Jan 22, 2009, 11:28

Originally Posted by RyanReese

Wrong. He should not be using transitional.[code]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">[code]

That is what he should be using.

Cheers.

Wrong! He is using older, deprecated markup. He should NOT be doing that but it's the only way to avoid validator errors when he validates.

**SoulScratch** · Jan 22, 2009, 11:45

Originally Posted by drhowarddrfine

Wrong! He is using older, deprecated markup. He should NOT be doing that but it's the only way to avoid validator errors when he validates.

Precisely, he should work his way up to strict.

**RyanReese** · Jan 22, 2009, 11:53

Hi

Always try to get your way up to Strict.

Originally Posted by SoulScratch

Precisely, he should work his way up to strict.

Didn't you just object to using strict a few posts up?

Cheers.

**SoulScratch** · Jan 22, 2009, 12:13

Originally Posted by RyanReese

Hi

Always try to get your way up to Strict.

Didn't you just object to using strict a few posts up?

Cheers.

I use HTML 4 Strict myself, but it's highly dependent on the scenario, and in this situation transitional would be a more suitable suggestion. Sorry if my statements were confusing.

**pheck** · Jan 23, 2009, 08:32

Main thing is Ryan's suggestion worked! THanks!

**RyanReese** · Jan 23, 2009, 08:37

Your welcome

. Any more questions feel free to come back.

Cheers.

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