Layout / CSS issues...

stormcrow1979

(side note: certain words are intentionally misspelled, and have dashes in them, in order to get through the stupidly-paranoid filter)

case in point: viewing the source for the page with the Incredible Missing Submit Button, I've noticed something interesting. Namely, an amazing example of using an IMG tag inside a P element. Wow, I bet the guys who wrote the W3C standards for HTML couldn't even imagine that one!

Why the hell would you enclose an image inside a text element like paragraph? How about

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If you so desperately need to "s-t-i-l-e" an image display, either apply the CSS directly to the IMG tag (doink), or at least throw it inside a SPAN or a DIV. Which is what they were meant for - GENERIC containers for stuff.

Another little thing (which could have caused this issue), is the apparent love for mixing & matching percentage units, straight PX values, and even esoteric crap like "points". This is the kind of "edge case" that's almost GUARANTEED to break on one browser or another. Pick a value system and go with it - pixels and percentages don't play well with each other.

And last but not least, I decided to run the page through the W3C Markup Validator (http://validator.w3.org/) (just for the sheer, unadulterated hell of it), and it came up with, not the typical dozen-or-so, but THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE issues!

Holy *&^%... Thanks for giving me a GREAT example of how NOT to code webpages... I'll be saving a copy and using it in my k-l-a-s-s-e-s.

Layout / CSS issue in Firefox 2.0.0.6: the "Submit Now" button is located in an invisible area of the form. In other words, I spent a couple of minutes looking for a "Submit" or "Proceed" or "Go" button, only to give up & drop everything & open IE - and of course, there it was!

Note to developers: using "position: relative" and mixing PX and % values for DIV / SPAN widths and heights is a BAD, BAD, BAAAAAD idea!

Different browsers will interpret things like that in wildly different ways - resulting in "fun" effects like 1/4 of the form disappearing from view.

Please, either fix the damn code to work with the browser used by about 35% of the market (and we LOVE it!), or redesign the forms to show the most important elements ***on top***. Seriously.