CSS Padding(Margin? ) Issues in Firefox

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A veteran of early html, I've modified my blog template and made it
look rather clean (albeit rather plain) when viewed with IE.

Ironically, I'm a big Firefox fan, but when viewed in FF, my blog
leaves a lot to be desired.

The blog (which is at http://lazycomic.blospot.com/ ) is a basic two
column style, with the right column being the one that's giving me the
problems.

In IE, it has nice padding around the text in the right column and
decent spacing between it and the left (main) column. It also sits
rather nicely in the middle of the window.

PROBLEM #1 In FireFox, the text in the right column is slammed right
into the left edge of the column. The bulleted items even go into the
main column. (I've noticed the FF users continue to read my blog -- and
I appreciate it -- but it looks rather dreadful.)

PROBLEM #2 In IE, the color (#f5f5f5) for the right column follows
neatly until it's done, while it FireFox it seems to end abruptly.

I'm sure there are a ton of poor syntax issues with my blog template,
but any help on correcting these two problems would be a great step in
the right direction.

[Andy Dingley]

J.O. Aho wrote:

Why not make two CSS files, one for Gecko based browsers and one for MSIE,

1. because it's a bad idea.

2. because it's pointless. IE isn't _that_ bad. If you can hit the
standard then not only is FF happy, but even IE will get nearly
everything right, so long as you use a suitable doctype to get it into
standards-based rendering mode. One stylesheet will fit all.

The only issues I know of where you can't do this are for the default
treatment of lists (just set everything (margin & padding) explicitly
for both). Also IE still have some font-sizing issues.

a little bit of javascript that selects the right CSS based on the user-agent
string.

That's _MUCH_ worse.

[Gérard Talbot]

Followup-to set: alt.html

Here's the *correct* URL: http://lazycomic.blogspot.com/

1-
You've got 284 validation markup errors
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht....blogspot.com/

Your problem could be related to those, you know.. Without fixing those
first, it's counter-productive to try to figure out what could be the
problem.

Using Web Standards in Your Web Pages
The benefits for valid markup code
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-deve...itsvalidmarkup

Mozilla Web author FAQ
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html

Why we won't help you
http://diveintomark.org/archives/200..._wont_help_you
2-
Some of your CSS declarations imply a font-size of 10px. Now, that's
very small for people (over 40 years old) who may have set a minimum
font-size of over 12px for webpages in Firefox. Have you checked your
layout with such minimum setting?

3-
You have many errors in your css declarations: here's a few:

Invalid number : float center is not a float value : center
# Line: 96 Context : #rightcontent

Invalid number : margin only 0 can be a length. You must put an unit
after your number : 10 10 10 10
# Line: 100 Context : #rightcontent

Invalid number : padding only 0 can be a length. You must put an unit
after your number : 10 10 10 0
4-
You have all kinds of CSS, javascript and a deep and wide DOM tree: this
is exactly the type of code that requires strict validation, combining
and compressing declarations and reduction of DOM tree.

5-
Font-size should never be defined with px. This is well known:

W3C Quality Assurance tip for webmaster:
Care With Font Size: Forget <font>, use CSS
"Do not specify the font-size in pt, or other absolute length units for
screen stylesheets. They render inconsistently across platforms and
can't be resized by the User Agent (e.g browser).
Use relative length units such as percent or (better) em"
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size#css

Followup-to set: alt.html

Gérard
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