Problems

CSS problem solving

1. Validate the HTML and CSS. It is unfair to expect someone to help you (should you need to ask) to fix a CSS problem if the code does not validate. Why validation is important as a debugging tool.
2. Is it browser specific (read as “does it fail only in IE/NN4?”)? Check the links page for resources to help
3. Produce a cut-down version of the HTML and CSS that causes the problem. This will be useful for showing to people later. The quickest way to do this is to keep halving the HTML until the problem goes away, then you know the problem was in the half you just removed. Bring that half back (delete the half you’d kept) and then halve again. Repeat until you’ve isolated the problem.

Recent problems

Floated elements escaping from their containing div (IE) 2nd October 2004