Hi, I am really struggling to have my site look the same in Firefox and
Explorer. I'm used to Explorer and everything is looking fine. Firefox is
totally different. Everyone bags Explorer and there seems to be this big sell
happening with Firebox now, but I wish it would just go away. As far as I can
see, the bugs are in Firefox. Oddly enough my tables based site looks
perfectly fine everywhere - I'm reworking it into CSS and everything is going
pear shaped. I feel like I need a big bottle of vodka before I can finish it.

Things such as: named anchors work in Explorer but not Firefox, background
images disappear underneath other divs in Firefox when they don't in Explorer,
columns don't display side by side but underneath each other in FF but not E,
there are slight shifts in positioning in FF which totally mess everything up
because I'm using a lot of background images.

Can someone recommend a link to info on how to make it work in both browsers?

Please clarify
I use both and see no difference

> I'm used to Explorer and everything is looking fine. Firefox is
> totally different.

That means your HTML is bad. Firefox is more standards compliant than
explorer, so you want to first make sure your site works in Firefox, then
'fix' for Explorer.

> Everyone bags Explorer and there seems to be this big sell
> happening with Firebox now, but I wish it would just go away.
> As far as I can
> see, the bugs are in Firefox.

Nope. The bugs are in your markup/CSS.

> Can someone recommend a link to info on how to make it work in both
> browsers?

Give us the link to your site so we can look at things.

-Darrel

Normally around here people will point to the following webpage to validate
your code:

http://validator.w3.org/

And Murray did not state user errors, he said usage errors. Meaning that you
are trying to make a desired effect with one set of commands when you should be
using another.

thanks... the site isn't live yet, but will try my luck with the validator if I ever get it up. It clearly is usage errors, considering it's me doing the usaging.

"just_carly" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> ...Everyone bags Explorer and there seems to be this big sell
> happening with Firebox now, but I wish it would just go away.

In some of my site statistics, more people are using Firefox than IE - it's
definitely not going away!

For what it's worth, with the normal coding methods I use to design pages,
there is almost never even a difference between those two browsers, much
less big problems.

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On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 06:54:54 +0000 (UTC), "just_carly"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:



As others have said - it's Firefox that is usually correct, and IE is
less correct.

Also consider other browsers.

Safari http://www.apple.com/safari/

This is the PC version - but Safari is also very popular in the Mac -
so your really should check with this one.

Another good browser that is very standards compliant and useful for
testing is Opera - http://www.opera.com/

Most people seem to design and check with Firefox & safari first, then
when the site is ok - validate it ( this helps find lots of typo's and
similar errors.
Then test with IE

With Firefox and invaluable tool is
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

it saves hours of my time at least, and I regularly use it when
testing sites that people report as having problems here.


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what is yours sites url?

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> what is yours sites url?

Read the thread.


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