Content disappearing when scrolling

[dave_howlett]

The company I work for, AMP Pearl, has a number of websites for it's products.


We are currently going through a search engine optimisation task, but Yahoo are rejecting us as Netscape 4.08 has problems with a number of our pages.

The start page is:

Invest Direct (http://www.amp-pearl.co.uk/pearl/pearl.nsf/content/pi-home) .

The problem occurs when vertically scrolling this page and other pages lower down (pi-transfer is an example). It does not always happen, but when you do scroll, a large portion of the content gets wiped (ie a big load of white space).

The website is written in Aptrix and runs off a Domino server. Aptrix adds tables around pretty much everything, so there is not much I can do about that. However, I found a site that mentioned that Netscape 4.x will sometimes not render a page if it finds dodgy tags in it. I have found that there are a number of unclosed tables, table rows and table cells and even a </meta>.

Any ideas?

btw, I am not the designer of this site!

[ihelpyou]

Welcome to the forums Dave! :hi:

Yep. It's a fact that Yahoo editors review with Netscape. NS tends to be unforgiving when it comes to coding and that is what you are seeing.

Unfortunately, if you wish to get into Yahoo, you will have to somehow make your site NS4.0 friendly.

[dave_howlett]

Cheers Doug.

Do you reckon that the problems could be down to the multiple tables, or more likely to things such as </meta> and the lack of closing tags?

[ihelpyou]

Yes. All the above. NS is not forgiving at all. I suggest you load up a copy of the old NS browser and go from there.

[Blue]

Hi Dave, and welcome to the forums! :hi:

On just your front page there is a lot of messed up code:

Line 7 Col 192 : Removed an unnecessary </meta> tag.
Line 155 Col 379 : Closed a <table> tag that was left unclosed or overlapped other tags.
Line 160 Col 2026 : Removed an unnecessary </font> tag.
Line 175 Col 27 : Removed an unnecessary </br> tag.
Line 175 Col 36 : Removed an unnecessary </br> tag.
Line 175 Col 335 : Removed an unnecessary </td> tag.
Line 175 Col 340 : Removed an unnecessary </tr> tag.
Line 175 Col 366 : Removed an unnecessary </table> tag. This is the result from my HTML editor program. You might want to try removing these tags (make sure you make an original copy first).

Hope this helps,

[Blue]

You can get NN4.7 here (http://home.netscape.com/products/index.html?cp=brinavbrincs).

[dave_howlett]

Cheers Blue, thats pretty much what I had come up with already.

The _joy_ of using Aptrix is that most of the changes to the first page will ripple through to the others as they re-use the same framework :D

I will let you know how I get on and hopefully the changes will stop this problem!