Title: firefox container problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# firefox container problem

 *  [mliam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mliam/)
 * (@mliam)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firefox-container-problem/)
 * [http://www.sketchygrid.com](http://www.sketchygrid.com)
    my site works in ie
   but when i view in firefox the background does not continue with the posts. any
   ideas?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firefox-container-problem/#post-1116031)
 * You’ve got some [validation errors](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sketchygrid.com%2F)
   that may be causing problems – especially the missing start and end tags. You
   could also do with changing `<div id="topcont">` to `<div class="topcont">`. 
   There should only ever be 1 named id in a page, so if you intend to use something
   more than once, assign it a class – not an id.
 * In terms of the page background, I can’t see any difference between the display
   in FF3 and that in IE8.
 *  Thread Starter [mliam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mliam/)
 * (@mliam)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firefox-container-problem/#post-1116062)
 * i see the errors but have no idea how to fix them. I’ve been trying to switch
   things around but all i seem to get is more errors.
 *  [viceng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viceng/)
 * (@viceng)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firefox-container-problem/#post-1116064)
 * if your talking about the grid type background, you need to change the css for
   the body background image from no-repeat to repeat-y.
 *  Thread Starter [mliam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mliam/)
 * (@mliam)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firefox-container-problem/#post-1116066)
 * no I’m talking about how the tan background only covers half of the page in firefox.
   esmi validation errors website probably found the problem but i don’t understand
   what it wants me to do
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firefox-container-problem/#post-1116069)
 * viceng is right. You need to edit style.css (line 168)
 *     ```
       #mainpage {
       background-color:#FFFFCC;
       background-image:url(http://www.sketchygrid.com/images/bg_2.png);
       background-position:right top;
       background-repeat:repeat-y;
       border-right:1px solid #000000;
       min-height:1000px;
       padding:0 10px 10px;
       width:100%;
       }
       ```
   
 * and change background-repeat:no-repeat; to background-repeat:repeat-y;
 * I tried that originally and thought it wasn’t working. However, I’ve just pulled
   down a copy of the background image and I can see why. It’s an 800px high image–
   most of which is actually plain yellow. Not sure you’ll be happy with the result
   when you do get it tiling down the page.
 *  Thread Starter [mliam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mliam/)
 * (@mliam)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firefox-container-problem/#post-1116070)
 * just changed it-and its still getting cut off. even with the repeat the background
   dies.
 *  Thread Starter [mliam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mliam/)
 * (@mliam)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firefox-container-problem/#post-1116085)
 * > Line 181, Column 22: document type does not allow element “div” here; assuming
   > missing “li” start-tag
   >  `<div class="topcont2"><h3>Meta</h3><ul>`
 * > Line 195, Column 6: end tag for “li” omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
   > `
   > </ul>`
 * not sure what these mean, to see where i got these from please look at esmi’s
   validation error link.

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