problem styling input

[Fantatier]

http://hive-dev.net/jobbeginner/

in FF the input works fine, but in IE the text infront of the input ie in the table td doesnt change,
ive tried styling the table and the tc and the input but it just wont change in IE


and in FF you see the light blue box under the footer, that belongs to the main div, but i have no idea where it comes from, and i cant get rid of it.

thx for any help

[ray326]

If you start by making sure the HTML and CSS are syntactically valid then you can start looking for logical errors.

[Fantatier]

it is

[ray326]

One IE problem might be the xml prologue. One page 158 of dwws, Zeldman opines, "Unforunately, many browsers, even those from 'nice' homes, can't handle their XML prologue. After imbibing this XML element, they stagger and stumble and soil themselves, bringing shame to their families and eventually losing their place in society." So he recommends dropping the prologue and replacing its encoding functionality with a meta tag.

For the "blue strip" problem, add a few paragraphs of lorem ipsum to the appropriate spot on the page and see if that isn't just a page on an empty stomach problem.

[Fantatier]

Originally posted by ray326
One IE problem might be the xml prologue. One page 158 of dwws, Zeldman opines, "Unforunately, many browsers, even those from 'nice' homes, can't handle their XML prologue. After imbibing this XML element, they stagger and stumble and soil themselves, bringing shame to their families and eventually losing their place in society." So he recommends dropping the prologue and replacing its encoding functionality with a meta tag.

and practily that means?

For the "blue strip" problem, add a few paragraphs of lorem ipsum to the appropriate spot on the page and see if that isn't just a page on an empty stomach problem.

tried that

[ray326]

Originally posted by Fantatier
and practily that means?

Ditch the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

Originally posted by Fantatier
tried that

Same result? I don't see it online.

[Fantatier]

´well got that to work by adding a padding-bottom to the footer

but the problem with the input still remains.

[ray326]

Looks like all that's left is some box model calcs and maybe more specific selector around the login. E.g. I got results with

#sidebar td
{
font-size: 10px;
text-align: right;
}

[Fantatier]

thx
works now,
but i would have sworn that didnt work before