I hope someone can help me! My friend has built me a site for my clothing business but we are stuck trying to keep static items–a line of links across the top of the page–from shifting slightly between certain pages. These links are from a Master. Some pages work and links are static, in others there is slight shifting. It looks static across all pages within Freeway but doesn’t work online.
I have tried everything I could think of: all pages are same size, line of links on Master page is locked, the pages are all centered, the dimensions are the same.
What am I missing?
We didn’t make the master first but added it because of the shifting, then made each page conform to the master.
The site is hidden in another site but here is the link for the homepage:
Are any of the pages taller than the others? Or, are there forms on
some pages and not others?
Those are the two things that usually cause pages to shift around a
tiny bit.
For the former, on a centered page, you will have to just get over
it. There’s nothing you can do except make all your pages really tall
by adding an empty HTML box down low on the page or some other trick
like that. This effect is caused by the width of the scrollbar
appearing and disappearing based on the size of the browser window
relative to the page.
For the latter, you can add this bit of code to the Page / HTML
Markup dialog in the Before /HEAD section:
<style type="text/css">
form { margin:0; padding:0; }
</style>
All the pages are exactly the same size to the pixel. There are no forms. The content is very basic, just images and a bit of text. I can’t see any obvious difference between the pages that keep the links static and those that don’t. The shifting is very slight though–makes it look jittery when clicking between them.
Thanks for checking. That’s weird… I looked at it in Safari and Firefox and can see it in both. I have refreshed the pages. My friend can see it on his work PC too and he uses Firefox.
this is what I get from clicking across the main pages:
From home to stores–no shift
home or stores to about–shift to the left
home or stores to current collection–no shift
home to previous collections–shift to the left
There are shifts in some of the pages in current, but all the first pages in previous are fine. It’s very perplexing…
I took a look at your site. On my 24" monitor with the browser window set larger than page layout I don’t see any shift at all. If I reduce the browser window vertically then I do see a shift. This is simply the affect of the browser generating a scroll bar on the right because those pages that do shift have slightly taller content.