Writing & images overlap on Web pages. Can content be "stretched"?

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Writing & images overlap on Web pages. Can content be "stretched"?

Web pages do not open to their full width on both Safari and Firefox. As a result writing & images overlap. The window itself opens correctly but the space in which content material appears does not reach all the way across the window from left to right; it uses only about 70% of the window. Is there a way to "pull" or stretch the content area in a window so that it reaches all the way across and writing and images no longer overlap?

Power Mac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Jan 13, 2007 5:04 AM

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Answer 1

ali brown

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Jan 13, 2007 5:16 AM in response to John Lane3

Hi John!

Have you tried clicking on the small green stoplight buttom to expand the page, or dragging with the 3 diagonal slash marks, in the lower right hand corner, to enlarge the area?

It may also be the fault of the website's coding. Can you post a link, or URL, to an example page?

ali b

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John Lane3 Author

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Jan 13, 2007 5:56 AM in response to ali brown

Ali,

Thanks! Unfortunately the green button only crimps the full page down to the size of the "overlap" part, and the bars in the corner just expand the whole page without affecting the overlap part.

http://www.travelocity.com/?Service=TRAVELOCITY

Here's a URL but let's see when you pull it up whether writing etc. overlaps for you. I have a screen shot of an overlap page but don't know if I can get it to you?

Power Mac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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ali brown

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Jan 13, 2007 6:09 AM in response to John Lane3

You're Welcome John!

Using Safari & AOL, the page looks fine to me,

Quit Safari, empty it's Cache.
Reload Safari, and navigate to the website again. Any better?

ali b

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John Lane3 Author

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Jan 13, 2007 7:22 AM in response to ali brown

Ali b,

Thanks! Actually I went one step further and also trashed the Safari Preferences so can’t say which did the job but it doesn’t matter because if you had not suggested the cache business I wouldn't have thought of either one....

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ali brown

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Jan 13, 2007 7:36 AM in response to John Lane3

You're Welcome Again John!

Great minds think alike.
Trashing the pref was to be my next suggestion.

And Thank You, for extending the courtesy, of awarding stars, in  Discussions!

ali b

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