CSS Problems - Browser Compatibility

Kevin Matthews

i'm having strange problems with browser compatibility between firefox and internet explorer,

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The following is the CSS:
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body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;
font-size: 80%;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
color: #111111;
font-weight: normal;
text-align: center;
margin: 0px;
}

#logo {
text-align: left;
width: 750px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
height: 100px;
background-color: #D25400;
background-image:url("../images/image1.jpg");
background-repeat: none;
border-bottom: 1px solid #EEB211;
}

#main_content {
position: absolute;
width: 750px;
margin: 100px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
background-image:url("../images/image2.jpg");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
border-bottom: 1px solid #EEB211;
height: 450px;
}

#main_content .enter {
width: 150px;
font-size: 125%;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 315px 0px 0px 250px;
height: 18px;
padding: 1px;
text-align: center;
color: #FFFFFF;
}

#main_content .enter a {
color: #FFFFFF;
display: block;
}

#main_content .enter a:hover {
color: #EEB211;
}

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The HTML is:
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<html>
<head>
<title>Web Page Title :: Introduction</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" href="styles/index.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/functions.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main_conten t">
<div class="enter">< a href="introduct ion.php">Click Here to Enter Site</a></div>
</div>
<div id="logo"></div>
</body>
</html>

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In Internet Explorer the display is fine, however in Firefox the background image isn't appearing at all
and the layout looks completely wrong.

Any Ideas?

Cheers

Kev

Jul 21 '05 #1

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty

Kevin Matthews wrote:

i'm having strange problems with browser compatibility between firefox and internet explorer,

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The following is the CSS:
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Please place your example somewhere and post a link to it. Far better
than asking everyone to create a local page, and rearrange your code.
Besides, we don't have a copy of image1.jpg and image2.jpg so any
efforts will likely be fruitless.
body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;
font-size: 80%;
80% of my desired viewing size? I don't have Verdana (a very large
font) so I get 80% of Arial, nearly impossible to read. Drop Verdana
and use font-size: 100%.
background-color: #FFFFFF;
color: #111111;
font-weight: normal; <-- default
text-align: center;
margin: 0px;
}

#logo {
text-align: left;
width: 750px; <-- is fixed size necessary?
margin-top: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
height: 100px;
Consider setting sizes for everything but borders in em units so that
when we increase your small fonts, the containers will stretch to
accommodate your text.
background-color: #D25400;
background-image:url("../images/image1.jpg");
background-repeat: none;
border-bottom: 1px solid #EEB211;
}

#main_content {
position: absolute;
width: 750px;
margin: 100px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
background-image:url("../images/image2.jpg");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
border-bottom: 1px solid #EEB211;
height: 450px;
}

#main_content .enter {
width: 150px;
font-size: 125%;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 315px 0px 0px 250px;
height: 18px;
padding: 1px;
text-align: center;
color: #FFFFFF;
}

#main_content .enter a {
color: #FFFFFF;
display: block;
}

#main_content .enter a:hover {
color: #EEB211;
}

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The HTML is:
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No DOCTYPE. For new pages I suggest HTML 4.01 Strict.
See: http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
<html>
<head>
<title>Web Page Title :: Introduction</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" href="styles/index.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/functions.js"></script>
Although the JavaScript may not be relevant to your problem (I don't
see any calls to it) we don't have it.
</head>
<body>
<div id="main_conten t">
<div class="enter">< a href="introduct ion.php">Click Here to Enter Site</a></div>
</div>
<div id="logo"></div>
</body>
</html>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In Internet Explorer the display is fine, however in Firefox the background image isn't appearing at all
and the layout looks completely wrong.

Again, without your images, we cannot tell. Put up a test case and
come back, please.

I know your code is a test, but "Click Here" is poor choice of link
text. Google for that. <g>

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Jul 21 '05 #2

Kevin Matthews

I actually fixed the problem, What I didn't put in the prevoius post was that I was using comments in my CSS. For some reason i was using  for comments in CSS instead of /* */. That was the problem!

Thanks anyway
"Kevin Matthews" <no**@blueyonde r.co.uk> wrote in message news:mL******** **********@fe1. news.blueyonder .co.uk...
i'm having strange problems with browser compatibility between firefox and internet explorer,

----------------------------------------
The following is the CSS:
----------------------------------------

body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-serif;
font-size: 80%;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
color: #111111;
font-weight: normal;
text-align: center;
margin: 0px;
}

#logo {
text-align: left;
width: 750px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
height: 100px;
background-color: #D25400;
background-image:url("../images/image1.jpg");
background-repeat: none;
border-bottom: 1px solid #EEB211;
}

#main_content {
position: absolute;
width: 750px;
margin: 100px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
background-image:url("../images/image2.jpg");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
border-bottom: 1px solid #EEB211;
height: 450px;
}

#main_content .enter {
width: 150px;
font-size: 125%;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 315px 0px 0px 250px;
height: 18px;
padding: 1px;
text-align: center;
color: #FFFFFF;
}

#main_content .enter a {
color: #FFFFFF;
display: block;
}

#main_content .enter a:hover {
color: #EEB211;
}

---------------------------------
The HTML is:
---------------------------------

<html>
<head>
<title>Web Page Title :: Introduction</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" href="styles/index.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/functions.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main_conten t">
<div class="enter">< a href="introduct ion.php">Click Here to Enter Site</a></div>
</div>
<div id="logo"></div>
</body>
</html>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In Internet Explorer the display is fine, however in Firefox the background image isn't appearing at all
and the layout looks completely wrong.

Any Ideas?

Cheers

Kev

Jul 21 '05 #3

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

Kevin Matthews wrote:

I actually fixed the problem, What I didn't put in the prevoius
post was that I was using comments in my CSS. For some reason i was
using  for comments in CSS instead of /* */. That was the
problem!
...which we would have seen immediately, had the page been online.
Thanks anyway

No comments about the rest of my comments? :-)

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-bts
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Jul 21 '05 #4

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