IE insists on having a random </div> tag

[dhunter]

We can't figure out a bit of weirdness with IE. We have a plant shutdown banner as a div in our top nav which we comment out after New Years and restore around the first of Nov. each year. The top nav is an include file with several div's in it.

When we restored the banner today, it wouldn't show up in IE but showed up fine in Firefox. One of our coders discovered that if you put in a </div> tag that doesn't relate to anything, then the banner shows up. We carefully checked and all the other div tags on the page are closed properly. IE just insists on having this random </div> tag before it will show the shutdown banner.

Does anyone have any clue about the reason for this strange behavior? The code's a little long to cut-and-paste here, but you can see it at http://www.abrasive-tech.com.

Please ignore the code on the index pages for the German, Spanish & Polish sites. We're just puzzled about the English pages.

[wranlon]

Looks like a CSS issue with #snowflake. I didn't spend much time looking into this, but addign a left:0px fixes it for IE (but Firefox looks messed up). There is also some serious horizontal scrollage going on there.

Stephen W. Cote
wranlon@hotmail.com
http://www.whitefrost.com/

[gmn17]

Use Metapad version 3.5, too many sissys who call themselves webdev types use asp or dreamweaver or coldfusion, get a life.

gmail? g-mail? I have gmail it used to be email? e-mail?

[gmn17]

the more hardcore "way too full of themselves" use wordpress or moveable type, very very sorry bloggers.

gmail? g-mail? I have gmail it used to be email? e-mail?