So, I have written out a site in HTML and CSS, and all looked fine and dandy in Safari, Chrome, OmniWeb... even Opera. Then I tested in Firefox and Camino (which I believe uses the same rendering engine as Firefox) and was unpleasantly surprised: some of the positioning of my divs was off - noticeably off - by at least 5 pixels. While that might not seem like a whole lot, I use divs to put borders around things that I would otherwise have difficulty with putting borders around (jquery image gallery, for example), so 5 pixels matters quite a bit.
My question is this - what other quirks does Firefox's rendering engine put in, and how can I get around them? Are there special properties I need to add to my CSS in order to make it behave the same for Firefox/Camino?
Thanks in advance for the help!
You should look into using a css reset, this will give you a blank slate and will for the most part normalize how browsers render the box model.
I recommend http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset/
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I'm using css gradients and padding to simulate buttons around an anchor tag. The problem I am running into is that firefox seems to make the button 3 pixels larger. 1 pixel on top and 2 on bottom. This seems to happen with not only the example i posted but everywhere on the page where i use the padding. I put up and example at http://wemw.net/example.php. In firefox the button top and bottom line up perfectly with the search box, but in chrome as i said its off by 1 pixel on top and 2 on bottom. I am using the w3 transitional(tried strict as well) doctype and a css reset. In the reset all anchor tags are set to padding: 0, so I'm confused as to why this extra padding is being added. Is there a workaround to this or is it just something you have to deal with when working with gecko and webkit browsers?
EDIT: So I logged over to windows and it is appearing the same in both browsers now. I'm assuming it is OS specific problems? Since no where near as many people use linux I'm going to change the padding to make it work, but in the interest of consistency can anyone offer a solution for cross-os cross-browser solutions? I do not own a mac and cannot easily test it there, but if windows/linux can have problems with the same versions of the same browsers is it safe to assume mac could also have issues i am unaware of?
It's not the padding on the anchor tag, it's the size of the text box that is inconsistent. <input> elements always caused such problems for me too, and I always found it extremely tedious to align them together nicely (you haven't yet seen it in IE8, have you?). I think that the easiest cross-browser solution here would be to remove the border from the text box and use a background image instead (or better yet, a background image on the element containing the text box) properly aligned with the button.
I've been searching for answers, but unfortunately still havn't found one the right one..
I'm creating buttons using images and the button itself looks good in ALL browsers..
The thing is though that the text is placed differently (vertically) depending on which browser you are viewing it from. I've tried applying both line-height, padding/margin, top/bottom and several other attributes, but without success..
Isn't there a way (with CSS) to place the text correctly in all browsers? (Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)... Don't worry about Internet Explorer - I'll apply some speciel CSS for this!
I've put up an example here to play around with: http://jsfiddle.net/GydjP/1/
button::-moz-focus-inner {border:0;padding:0;margin:0;}
and adding Line-height to the buttons is apparently the best solution I can find for my buttons so far.. It doesnt work in very old versions of Firefox + Chrome though
I'm building a pretty heavy J.Query website and, as always, it looks great in the modern browsers - but I am coming across all types of alignment issues in IE 6 & 7. More severely in IE 6. I'm working on building a conditional IE Style sheet for those browsers and am wondering - is there a way to align all divs with CSS? Can I permanently position everything to be, and stay center throughout all browsers and window sizes?
Ultimately; any suggestions on fixing margin issues that occur in older IE's? Stuff that looks great in modern browsers and pushed off to the right and top in IE 6 & 7. ..If the conditional is the inevitable route, what's a good way to start defining the parameters within?
are we talking horizontally or vertically?
Horizontally, the "margin:0px auto" should always center the div horizontally along the screen, so long as the width is set. This works for all browsers IE6+ i believe.
There's a pretty good forum here : http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/8003.htm
It sounds to me like your problem is that you have poorly written CSS. Certainly, IE6 has plenty of issues, but if you're seeing problems in other modern browsers, then your problems are with your CSS, not standards conformance.
If I were you, i'd just ignore IE6. It's down to less than 5% of the market (some surveys say as little as 2%). Just let it die.
As RCNeil says, using margin centering works with everything. If it's not working, then you have something else causing your problem and we can't possibly guess without seeing your page.
NOTE: in older versions of IE, if your document is being rendered in quirks mode, then you will have problems with auto margin. Make sure your document renders in standards mode.
I am getting this display in IE 7
I am getting this display in Firefox:
for the following code
Could anybody point me, What I should do to make the IE Display simalar to Firefox and also, How Do I make the Size should be same for all the headings?
Internet Explorer does not support gradients, shadows, nor border-radius properties. border-radius is supported in IE9, but this won't be of much help!
You can look into CSS3 Pie, which uses IE-specific .htc files to achieve almost the same effect.
For now, if you really need to be fully compatible with all IE's (and other browsers for that matter) I'd use an image. It's not very nice but at least you can rest assured that it will always work ;-)
Rounded corners and drop shadow aren't going to work in IE7 without a lot of clever image tricks. You can't fix it through CSS alone.
Alternatively you could probably find a JavaScript plugin which would create these effects for you if you don't mind taking that route (see curvy corners for example).
I know there's several questions on this already, but I cannot find a solution anywhere.
Basically, I have CSS styling the body to fullscreen with no scrolling. Within this are 2 divs, for sidebar (left) and content (will be a map control if I can get past this problem).
Within the left sidebar I have 2 divs (at the moment), one has a simple entry form for an address to search for (which can be set to a static height, 9ems or 100px), the second is intended to hold the results in a vertically scrolling list in the remaining space
I almost got there - IE 8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera appeared all to be working fine - then, as our Corporate web team insist on IE6 compatibility (or at least the page should be usable), I tested it in IE6 - no scrollbars, and the list is extending beyond its parent div. Playing about a bit more with CSS, I get the scrollbar, but the div seems to be inheriting 100% height from the document.
So far I've been struggling for about 4 days with this, so any help or insight is appreciated.
Thank you
For situations where I absolutely really HAVE to support IE6, I use conditional comments to add extra HTML and CSS, and possibly hide other stuff. Making layouts for IE6, IMO, basically comes down to "whatever it takes" - ditch proper document structures, endulge in table-based layout, use spacer images, etc. etc. Especially sizes expressed as percentages are horribly broken in IE6 - whoever implemented them apparently didn't have the faintest idea what they were supposed to mean.