I have a problem where Google Chrome on Windows places the first letter of the paragraph differently compared to all the other browsers such as IE, Firefox, Safari. The difference is in the vertical placement - the letter appears higher in all other browsers (the same way in every one of them) but lower in Google Chrome, making styling the first-letter almost impossible.
Do You happen to know why and how this happens?
Could be that the styling of the mother DIV is affecting the paragraph styling but I do not think so.
Also, by the way, the Drop-Caps plugin in WordPress does not work in Firefox.
If you are using relative font sizes (percentage or point based), these are often rendered differently in each browser. See W3 for more info
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I'm changing over a site from HTML to Wordpress (for the first time, so be gentle!) and I ran into an issue with Google Chrome applying styles that I've never knew existed! In this case I'm referencing the style that positions the bg.gif image background. In both IE9 and Firefox the background elements seem to work just fine, but in Google Chrome I'm having the issue.
If you go to this site: http://www.richmindonline.com/doggy2/ then right-click the upper right corner of the page in Google Chrome, then click "Inspect Element", you will notice styles that are being applied that have nothing to do with my stylesheets.
Could someone provide some guidance as to how to fix this. I've already tried adding my own styles to trump the Chrome styles, but it's not working.
Which styles are you trying to override? What you're seeing are browser defaults - all browsers have them whether they show you or not.
What I'm seeing in the inspector is Chrome identifying the text direction and locale. Are you using a CSS reset?
http://www.cssreset.com/
Should go a long way in starting all browsers at the same default.
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
can someone look at this site for me I have a serious problem with the sub pages content div going over to the right bar this issue the site renders fine in all other browsers except safari firefox and iphone
www.firstavenuedesign.co.uk/demo
http://www.firstavenuedesign.co.uk/demo/offers.aspx
if u look at the above page in ie it will display fine and chrome any ideas anyone
It looks as though the problem you are having relates to your parent DIV 'collapsing' on your floated child elements.
The following article explains how to resolve this issue (in the Collapsing section) a long with other approaches for laying out floating elements:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/css-floats-101/
Validate your html and css for those lists of significant errors. Then get this working in a modern browser before seeing how IE screws things up. The other browsers are showing what you wrote. IE makes things up as it goes along. Never, ever trust IE to do anything right.
Also, you have space before the doctype. Some versions of IE go into quirks mode in that situation.
http://betawww.helpcurenow.org/media/press/
You'll see I have used spans within an anchor, with the span.hover-description set to display:none; by default, and on a:hover that span is set to display block and absolutely positioned to create a tool-tip effect when hovering over the name and email of the "For Immediate Release" contact names.
Everything looks as desired in Firefox, but Chrome reveals my unknown blunder somewhere.
Any help on what's the problem that is causing Chrome to not display like Firefox?
Incidentally, Explorer shows the tool tip as expected, although I'm getting a funky bottom margin issue below the names, and Safari has the same issue as Chrome (must be a webkit rendering setting that I need to accommodate for).
OK, I figured it out. Since I'm using a pretty complex nesting structure to accomplish the CSS tool-tips, I overlooked the fact that I had actually nested a p tag within a p, and of course that is a no-no.
Firefox is really friendly to a lot of validation errors, but Chrome and Safari seem to be much more strict.
In the end I changed the p's to span elements and all is well across browsers.