Problem with website layout

[Dharmavira]

Hello Friends

I'm having problem with the layout while opening any specific websites. For example if i try to open MSN websites its layout gets completely screwed up? I face this problem both in my explorer as well in my Firefox. I'm not sure but is it related to my settings? Can any one help me out to resolve this problem? Any kind of help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Jackson2]

Layout has unusual and hard to predict effects on the display of boxes, as well as implications for their descendant elements.

Consequences of an element having, or not having “layout” can include:

• Many common IE float bugs.
  
• Boxes themselves treating basic properties differently.
  
• Margin collapsing between a container and its descendants.
• Various problems with the construction of lists.
• Differences in the positioning of background images.
• Differences between browsers when using scripting.

The above list issues can create a problem of “layout” for a particular website.

[Trio]

I think div's are chunks of space in your layout that you control with div tags and positioning tags. They are not tricks, they are fundamental aspects of CSS (cascading style sheets).

If you get rid of them, you have no way to control the layout of your web elements, so of course the page is going to get messed up.

To move the AD down, you have to find the div container that controls the ad placement and use the absolute positioning tags to place the container where you want it.The coordinates are x and y and are in pixel measurements.

The div for the ad might look something like this:

#ad
{
color: white;
background: #7D3847;
position: absolute;
top: 30px;
left: 400px;
width: 700px;
height: 90px;
}

Top is your y coordinate in pixels, left is your x coordinate in pixels.

Increasing the number in the top tag will move your element further down the page.

Also make sure the ad container is not located inside another container that will limit the absolute positioning.

It should be somewhere by itself inside the body div. Also Flash is not a Layout property, it is a multimedia format. It has nothing to do with laying out a page, it is just an element of the page. Your not going to be able to fix your AD problem without a general understanding of web design and CSS. I would just recommend looking for a different layout that work for you.

[Techno01]

Try to reset your Layout.

Resetting the following properties to their default value in a separate rule set will reset (or undo) Layout:

• width, height (to 'auto')
  
• max-width, max-height (to 'none') (in IE 7)
  
• position (to 'static')
  
• float (to 'none')
  
• overflow (to 'visible') (in IE 7)
  
• zoom (to 'normal')
  
• writing-mode (from 'tb-rl' to 'lr-tb')

Hope so it may help you out.