276436 - btonline.com.au - renders two columns on top of one another in mozilla, renders okay in IE

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[John Steele Scott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040930 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040930 Firefox/0.10

In the page at http://www.btonline.com.au/default.htm , the text in the centre
pane of the page is rendered incorrectly. On Internet Explorer, there is a
column on the centre-left called "Quick Links", and a column on the centre-right
called "Popular Questions". In Firefox it looks like the space between the two
columns is "negative", so the text from both columns ends up being rendered in
the same place. The result is that you can't read the text.

The secure section of their site (behind
https://online.btfunds.com.au/retailinvestor/investor) seems an instance of an
opposite problem. There, when you select an account, they have a expandable
sidebar which seems to be almost infinitely long going down the page, and is
missing menu options. In IE the menu options are all there, and text up a
reasonable amount of space.

I have just written an email to BT via the "contact us" section of the site, but
it is too early to expect a reply.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[John Steele Scott]

Attachment: source for http://www.btonline.com.au/default.htm as at 30/12/2004

This page claims to be HTML 4.01 Transitional, but validator.w3c.org registers
14 errors on it.

Comment 2

[John Steele Scott]

Attachment: image displaying incorrect rendering of http://www.btonline.com.au/default.htm

Comment 3

[Arun Prasannan (polar)]

The page layout appears to have been updated; renders correctly.