Why are those buttons moving? They're not supposed to!

Jeroen · Post by **Jeroen** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:41 pm

I used the Trial Version of Ulead GIF Animator 4 to create some buttons with a transparent background. A strange thing happens with those buttons, though. They are just plain and simple straightforward buttons, no fancy stuff like animations or onmouseover() stuff or JavaScript. Just the plain and simple idiot-proof "click button --> load page". However, when I click them, they actually move up or down a few pixels...

See for yourself: http://www.brin-l.com/test/mainpage.html

There are currently three buttons: "Main Page", "Administrative FAQ" and "Etiquette Guidelines". Click on the second one, and you'll see it move down a few pixels. Click the third one, and see that one move down a few pixels as well. Click the second one again, and you'll see the third one move back up. Click the first one, and the second one will move back up.

Who can shed some light on this? They're not supposed to be moving!

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:51 pm

It's your HTML coding.

Jeroen · Post by **Jeroen** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:04 pm

I checked again, but I can't see anything wrong with the HTML. If the problem *is* with the HTML coding, exactly what am I doing wrong and how should I do it correctly?

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:23 pm

Perhaps if you didn't try and hide the source behind frames I could tell you.

Jeroen · Post by **Jeroen** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:31 pm

Er... I didn't use frames...

Bear in mind that there are two versions of the mainpage.html file. One is http://www.brin-l.com/mainpage.html which is part of the current site (which, yes, does use frames), the other one (the one with the button problem) is http://www.brin-l.com/test/mainpage.html .

No frames were used for the test version.

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 1:17 pm

Jeroen wrote:Er... I didn't use frames...
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Errrrrrr, yes you did. Frames and a redirect to different site.

I'd imagine if you can figure out how to do that you should be able to figure out how to fix the images.

Regardless your question has been answered. If your images are moving it's a coding issue. Case closed.