please help - background color all messed up

hello
for some reason , my background in the central column and bottom navigation bar is not consistent in the IE and firefox.

I want it to look the way it is in IE, but with firefox , it doesn't . the grey background in flowing in between my header and central box.

can you please help me find out what exactly is wrong?

body {
margin: 0;
font-family: arial;
font-size: 62.5%;
color: #3B3B39;
background-image: url(../images/logotop.jpg);
background-color: #515a5f;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center top;
}

#contentMainWrapper{
background-color: #fffff;
background-image: none;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
margin: 0em;
margin-top: 0px;
}

site: https://www.thepurseworld.com

Not sure what you are trying to do, but you have some serious Validation Errors going on.

line #1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD...

line #143 <div id="indexDefaultMainContent" class="content"><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD...

That's just not right. :blink:

Until you correct the problems you will continue to have problems. :shocking:

Website Rob:

Not sure what you are trying to do, but you have some serious Validation Errors going on.

line #1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD...

line #143 <div id="indexDefaultMainContent" class="content"><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD...

That's just not right. :blink:

Until you correct the problems you will continue to have problems. :shocking:

I honestly have no clue what these are? which files are these found in? and how can i fix ?

I suggest you contact the person who created the Template or did the Template changes for you.

Website Rob:

I suggest you contact the person who created the Template or did the Template changes for you.

the template is the clean business template and the changes were done by me.

i have been very careful in everything i changed. but as you say there are some things i missed.

do you know anyone who is willing to fix this for me ( i am willing to pay someone to do these fixes)

Does the Template work properly to begin with? Minus your changes of course.
Can you reinstall your Template and start over?

May seem like the long way but that's how we all learned.

Seem my Slogan on next line. :wink:

Website Rob:

Does the Template work properly to begin with? Minus your changes of course.
Can you reinstall your Template and start over?

May seem like the long way but that's how we all learned.

Seem my Slogan on next line. :wink:

that is definitely out of the questions.. too many changes..

i just want to know why in firefox and IE not showing the same in regards to the grey background.. any ideas why?

In general, Firefox shows the page styling correctly according to standards, while IE (especially IE6 & older) has many bugs and quirks. IE sometimes tries to cover up your errors by guessing at what you meant while Firefox does exactly what you told it to do.

If it displays as you intended in IE but not in Firefox, that often indicates an error in your CSS.
If it displays as you intended in Firefox but not in IE, that is often due to a bug in IE (which are mostly known and have workarounds published).