Webdesign: CSS Min-Height for Internet Explorer

7 11 2008

This morning I started creating and testing a new CSS website template for one of my pending projects. After creating the CSS stylesheet and basic HTML page with DIV’s my content container and footer are not being displayed as they should. For the content div container I assigned CSS property “min-height=400px;”. Using of min height of 400px the website will have nice overview instead depending on the content I enter in the container. The result:

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The screenshot was made in Internet Explorer and I checked all my html and css code and everything looks fine. I opened Firefox and opened same URL and the page was displayed as it should be 400px for the content container ;). I am new in the web devolvement and trying to get the basics but this is one example when working with different browsers. Internet Explorer ignores “min-height” and always assign it 8em if the container doesn’t contain data. To fix this problem you will need to define addition CSS declaration for the container.

 

  • div#content {
       min-height: 400px;
    }
  • * html div#content {
    height: 400px;
    }

or use another solution

  • div#content {
       min-height: 400px;
       height:auto !important!;
       height:400px;

    }

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Wow this fixed my first problem.



Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 and Windows Vista

19 03 2008

For a while I have been struggling with Office Communicator 2005 and Windows Vista. Office Communicator 2007 is not supporting Office Live Communications 2005 server and there I am forced to use the Office Communicator 2005 client. All presence and chat features worked fine with 2005 but when it came for sharing your desktop or sharing a file the communicator started to complain about the firewall or me sitting behind a Network Address Translator (NAT).

Cannot establish the data sharing session with user1, either because user1 canceled the session, or because you or the person you are calling is behind a firewall or Network Address Translator (NAT).

 

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How to resolve this issue?

Uninstall Microsoft Office Communicator 2005
Get the KB927853 hotfix from Microsoft. This update will install the NetMeeting 3.02 version which is compatible with Windows Vista.
Reboot the machine
Install Microsoft Office Communicator 2005

I scripted the Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 into a Altiris SVS application layer but after installing the hotfix it still didn’t solve my problem. Make sure you uninstall the Communicator first or delete the SVS layer and than reinstall the packages.