When printing the page below in Safari/Chrome, the content (everything on the page, basically) is squished into the left side of the page, at about 60% of the page's width.
However, in FireFox and IE 7, the printed page shows the content as the full width (and looks quite nice, imo). I resized all the layout elements to 100% width (using !important to make sure they're applying), and Safari/Chrome still won't print out the full width.
Here's the page I'm referencing:
http://archstl.org/commoffice/press-release/2010/local-catholic-principal-honored-fi
And here's an image of the difference between Webkit (first) vs. Gecko (second):
(source: skitch.com)
(source: skitch.com)
sorry not really an answer but a comment(i can't comment yet) but, have you tried printing the sheet already? if not, just try it.
Also, I checked your print.css and although I'm not too sure, maybe you can check your font-sizes. Try using pixels first instead of em. Since em is relative to your base font size, it may vary in browsers. You can rectify this by adding a fixed font size in your body style like so:
body { font-size: 13px; }
then continue using em for the others.
I've decided to give up on trying to improve the print stylesheets anymore, and instead just accept the odd spacing issues in different browsers.
I would recommend, to anyone else trying to style your pages for print, to consider using #screen instead of #all for your main site stylesheets, though—this makes styling things for print easier on some more complex layouts.
Anyways, we should just move into the 21st century and forget about printing ;-)
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Apologies in advance for the rudimentary nature of this CSS question.
I'm trying to figure out how to deal with widths in CSS. I have an absolute positioned <div> containing a fairly wide table. The <div> is "1300px" in width. Everything works fine on desktop browsers. People with high resolution monitors see the entire table. Those with low resolution, or those who are viewing the page from a smaller browser window, are able to horizontally scroll the div to see the entire content. All is good.
But something different happens on the iPad2 (Safari) which has a native resolution of 1024px. I expected the iPad to show the first 1024px of content and allow the user to horizontally scroll (swipe?) to see the remainder of the table. Instead, it seems to be trying to cram the entire 1300px into the 1024px screen and then shrinking the type to make everything fit.
What's the standard way of using CSS to tell the iPad browser to show whatever it can at it's native resolution (i.e. 1024) and then allow the user to swipe/scroll horizontally if he wants to see the rest? A small snippet of code would be helpful.
Thanks.
By default iOS Safari will scale down any page to fit the screen. If it's not your desired behavior you can instruct the browser via meta viewport tag in the <head>.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0" />
Edit: more in-depth explanation: http://www.allenpike.com/2010/choosing-a-viewport-for-ipad-sites/
I don't have an iPad so I can't see, but a few points:
Your xhtml is not valid. <center> doesn't exist anymore (and by the looks of things isn't actually needed in the design anyway), also you should specify the dimensions of any the header image in px.
Don't know why you're using margin:auto on anything other than the mainwrap. Try margin:0; instead.
Try adding * {margin:0; padding:0} to the top of your stylesheet, and then adding in any extra padding and margin you need later - this will more or less set all browsers to the same starting point when it comes to layout.
If you don't want a border use {border:none} (if you say border: 0px solid; some browsers will still try and draw something)
This might not fix the problem, but it will be step in the right direction as the more valid your markup is the easier browsers find it to render.
Try removing width:100% from any of the parent element, then try to fix it.
Hope that it works for you.
In my first attempt at a responsive web design I have run into a curious problem. When I resize my browser down to 615px width or less, a horizontal scroll bar appears. I'm not sure what element is causing this. I tried putting a border around each element using
* {
border:1px solid #FFF;
}
to help me visualize where the edges of the elements were but I don't see any borders extending beyond the window boundaries.
Can someone take a look at my site and give me some insight? http://www.ritualbliss.ca
Thanks!
Edit: So I only get the scroll bar in Firefox. Chrome works fine and the desktop version of Safari but on my iPhone it scrolls horizontally.
Edit: the site is for a legitimate massage business but some may consider the picture NSFW
Devin,
Try using a tool like Firebug for Firefox, IE Developer Tools, or the Chrome Developer tools. I'm sure Safari and Opera have similar tools, as well. These things will give you the ability to highlight and view the various properties of every visible HTML element on the page, including Javascript and CSS information.
One other thing to think about is not using the * selector in your CSS. I am not sure why you would want to put a border around every single element on your page because to me, that would not look visually appealing. The border style attribute adds the thickness of the border to whichever dimensions it is applied to. So, in your case, every element in your page has 2px added to both its height and width, even the "html" element. This could be why you have the scroll bar but can't tell where the extra pixels are.
Also, do you have any CSS styles that set a width or min-width to 617 pixels? Or a combination of elements that share the same area and add up to 617 pixels? Maybe a table with columns that are not shrinkable?
There is a lot to look at and your URL looks like it's probably porno or something so I cannot go there at work and check it out...
Good Luck,
Matt
Edit
I fooled around with firebug for a few minutes and agree with Ruben that handling the overflow would be a good idea. Although I think the setting should be on the body instead of #content.
Try this:
body { overflow-x: hidden; }
Like Ruben's answer it is hiding overflow, but you can still get the vertical scrollbar if people REALLY narrow down their browser.
can you please warn us when it's nsfw :s
use this css:
#content { overflow: hidden }
not the best solution but you have to use firebug to find out what's sticking out
padding and borders increase the width of your element too
css3 box-sizing:border-box solved this one.
Imagine CSS like:
.x {
background: blue none;
border-radius: 6px;
}
and HTML like:
<div>Words and <span class="x">decorated</span> words</div>
The height of the span reading 'decorated' is going to vary wildly between different browsers, and between different OSes running otherwise the same browser.
Is there any way to make it be the same height?
(I don’t want to move to inline-block or sacrifice the text using exactly the same baseline.)
My experience with avoiding of different height is setting exact line-height and font-size
Sounds like there is something else causing your problem. I just tried a basic html5 document with the snippits from your question and compared the alignment on Windows with Chrome, Safari, FF & IE. They all rendered exactly the same except for IE9 which had a 1px gap above the span only.
Granted Mac renders fonts differently from Windows, and I didn't test on linux or mac, but 9px!!!??? Here are some things I'd investigate:
First, try a basic test file if you are working in a larger project, this will limit your variables.
Second, try setting explicit fonts and ensuring they exist on all of your test machines - perhaps linux is falling back to a different font.
Third, make sure you are not zoomed in or using a custom font size browser setting on any of the browsers (I ran into this one a while back where somehow my IE was set to 105% zoom.)
Finally, if all of that fails, you might want to try using a web font (#font-face) and see if that renders more strictly.
Edit:
In lieu of the new information in your comment, another strategy would be to use JavaScript to inspect the rendered heights of some off-screen elements and then programmatically adjust styles accordingly. You'll probably get a huge FOUC, but you can use a whiteout div to minimize the shift.
I am NOT talking about zooming the page, but rather the way MobileSafari on iOS automatically bumps up some font sizes sometimes.
When, exactly, is this done? Can it be prevented or discouraged?
body {
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}
Just make sure all your text is at a legible size in the first place. The iPhone and iPod touch have a rather small screen, so keep that in mind too.
Had a lot of trouble tracking it down, but: it’s the -webkit-text-size-adjust property in CSS.
Values:
Percentage (of default size), e.g. 120%, or 100%
auto (the default)
none – if auto isn’t working for your page. However this often causes problems with zooming. Use 100% instead. For example, open Safari on your desktop and zoom the page (Command-Plus) – your text won’t be enlarged, even though the entire page has zoomed! Don’t use none!
Note that these can be applied not just at the page level but at the element/widget/container level.
(I would not just specify a value of 100% for my website unless I was damn sure it was already optimized for small screens, and never none since it causes problems.)
Please note that in Firefox Mobile (e.g. for Android and Firefox OS) there is a similar property, -moz-text-size-adjust, documented here. Thanks to Costa for pointing this out.
Update, 10 years later: This MDN page is probably best for checking what browsers' current compatibilities and vendor prefixes are for this property.
The accepted answer works, but in other webkit browsers it locks in the font-size for people that are zooming. Using 100% instead of none works both ways:
body {
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}
How to get consistence rendering of paragraph text in all browsers?
See IE 7 rendering like this
alt text http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/248/0266470505.jpg
and FF like this . which is ok to client
alt text http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/248/8655561297.jpg
How to get same result in both browsers, i mean FF rendering in IE? my client needs "non-executive" in same line in all browsers, Is <br /> only solution of this.
Update : see all code for <p> here http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/248/4505395091.jpg
I'm already using XHTML 1.1 doctype and eric meyer reset CSS
Update: 28 March
Thanks for all replies!
I tested this problem is only not coming on firefox . but coming in all other browser IE6, 7, 8, Safari(windows), Google Chrome.
Is there any possibility css only solution now?
For your specific issue, use the <nobr> tag around your text, or a span with the CSS
whitespace: no-wrap;
This will prevent non-executive from breaking across lines.
However, you should note that getting entirely consistent rendering is quite difficult between browsers and platforms.
Update
You are most likely setting both a fixed width and a padding on the left and right of the element. IE and Firefox will interpret that differently due to box model differences. If you cannot recode your page to use a fixed width and a left/right margin, then you will need to specify a different fixed width in an IE only stylesheet to compensate for the problem.
Education
Web development is about education. Much of that education is educating your client on what to expect and not to expect.
Help by explaining to your client that each browser, and OS combination handle fonts a little differently. One engine may place the letters slightly closer to each other than another.
You could put tons of work into getting this just right, but if your end user has enlarged their fonts at all, all the time and money spent on making sure one hyphenated word stays on the same line will go out the window.
Technical Thought: Both browsers appear to already be rendering the text as closely as they can, I don't think a reset.css is going to help you at all.
Resetting all styles to get rid of the differences in the browser stylesheets might be a good idea. YUI's reset.css can do this for you. then you can start from scratch to format your paragraphs, using percentages for font size , spacing etc. (see YUI CSS cheatsheet).
EDIT: Just saw your comment to cletus' answer. So: what CSS are you using for laying out your text?
This is nothing to do with margins, padding, fonts, resets or any CSS, really. It's about how browsers interpret hyphens. IE obviously decides that it can break the line on a hyphen, whereas Firefox treats it as one word.
Like McPherrinM said, you can use no-break tag: <nobr>non-executive</nobr>. Or you could simply remove the hyphen altogether.
Or you could just explain to your client how all browsers and systems render text differently and there is no way you can prevent this occurring in all situations. What is the problem with the word splitting over two lines anyway?
You might look into the use of a soft hyphen
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