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Old 02-14-2005, 10:25 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Hi,

I have a little problem with my webpage. It views ok in IE, however, when viewed in Firefox, the arrangement is all off

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Anyone knows what's up with that??
Oh yes, i made the page in Microsoft Word Perhaps Firefox can't read the tags too well or something?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Old 02-14-2005, 10:42 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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This is a very common problem. Webpages made for IE don't display right in Firefox or netscape (and other browsers), pages made for netscape don't display right in IE or firefox, and vice versa. It's a problem that's plauged the web developer for years. The best (well best looking) way to get arround this is to make a different webpage for each of the different browsers. Then you use JavaScript to find out which browser the user is using and redirect them to the corresponding document.
Some people don't like doing all that work (it IS a lot of work) so they just put a link to MS's site and say "download IE or don't complain". Still others try to use ONLY the w3.org standard HTML (I believe it's 4.0) and CSS. But that's also hard, because you can't do much of anything

So take your pick of how to fix it.
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Old 02-14-2005, 10:58 PM   #3 (permalink)
 
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i see... thats rough man, think i will give the javascript method a go.
what do i use to make a page to suit firefox?
Are there firefox tags or something?
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Old 02-15-2005, 08:25 PM   #4 (permalink)
 
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No. You just can't use any IE specific tags (like some of the meta tags). And you just need to keep tweeking untill it looks correct in Firefox or whatever else browser you're making it for.
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Old 02-15-2005, 08:31 PM   #5 (permalink)
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You can make a website multi browser compatible by putting a lot of efford and testin in it.

I am currently working on my website and it works prefectly in all browsers, except for a little script issue with FireFox and DIV layer that doesn't work in IE.

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Old 02-15-2005, 08:41 PM   #6 (permalink)
 
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i see... thanks alot guys, reallly appreciate the advice. think ill take your advice and re-code the page and test it accordingly.

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