There's something peculiar happening with two sets of identical html and css files that I have. One set is being loaded through Rails' index.html.erb file via a controller, while the other is running through my public folder as a control. The public index.html file displays perfectly fine:
However, when I run these exact same files in the rails index.html.erb file, things appear slightly off. The "BETA" text is positioned lower in the Rails build, and the navigation list ends up below the header element.
Admittedly, I'm still quite new to both CSS and Rails, so this issue might be common knowledge that has eluded me. I've tried looking for solutions online but haven't come across any similar problems. Any advice on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated!
UPDATE: Below are links to view my index.html and style.css files on Pastebin. They're relatively small, perhaps taking a look at them could provide some insights:
HTML: http://pastebin.com/wyYEN92n
CSS: http://pastebin.com/60xMe9YG
UPDATE 2:
Upon inspecting the page source, I found these two lines:
<link href="/assets/application.css?body=1" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="/assets/home.css?body=1" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
It seems likely that something in these CSS files is causing the discrepancy. I'll delve deeper into this and share any findings.
UPDATE 3:
Interestingly, it appears that neither of those CSS files actually affect anything. I've included the contents of both in this pastebin: http://pastebin.com/pbHwEp4w
You'll notice they only contain commented-out code. However, I did observe something unusual in the page source - there are 2 html tags within the same file. I've shared this on Pastebin as well: http://pastebin.com/h4Rjqi4B
This has me wondering if this dual HTML structure could be contributing to the problem. Could this be the root cause?