I have been struggling to find out why IE7 is taking more space in padding while other browsers not.
If someone knows how to do that than please do share.
The browsers naturally default to different padding/margin settings. Adding on top of this, browsers treat width differently as well.
You may want to consider resetting element styling so that it's reasonably consistent across browsers. See http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ for an example.
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I am trying to get this registration form to look consistent across all of the major browsers, or at least Firefox and Chrome.
http://www.lukaspleva.com/MoneyThink/new_mentor_application.html
It looks GREAT in Chrome, especially as far as the spacing between all of the input fields is concerned (it's equal). In Firefox, though, the spacing/padding is kind of all over the place.
Any idea how to fix this issue?
You already have each input/label in td-s, so either give td-s widths (if the input is 100px wide, make its td 120px wide), either increase the table's cellspacing property. However, using tables for layout is not recommended. Use CSS floats and padding/margins instead.
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'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.
Like my title says, my webpage which has a couple position:relatives that look perfect in google chrome and firefox are offset in safari.
Is there a way in my css to counter-act this offset? I'm not even sure why it's happening.
have you tried using a css reset?
by using a reset you can set the margins and padding of all elements to 0. 0 is the one number that all browsers agree on...from there you will have to add margins and padding to the elements but you should achieve a consistent look in different browsers
How do other designers normalize padding and margins across browsers. I have tried CSS Resets (currently using the YUI one), but I still run into a lot of inconsistencies.
It seems for some elements, with some browsers, setting a padding or margin to 0px will trigger the browser to use a default padding and margin determined by that browser. Is there a way to hard reset the padding or margin across all browser so there is a consistent look?
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It seems from additional research and the feedback here, it's near impossible to get websites to look the same across different browsers to the letter. I think I'll stick with using a CSS Reset and just try to plan out my sites better.
I'm not sure how to overcome the default browser mechanisms that override style settings and it would probably be too much effort to do so.
This is usually solved with a CSS reset but not all of them are complete. On some browsers, the overall body has to have its border set to 0 (i.e. Opera and sometimes IE) to be truly the same. Try the following:
body,html{margin:0;border:0;padding:0;}
Since you don't say which element or give a link I can't really go too far into this. Which elements are you having trouble with?
Its not worth the extra CSS interactions and extra code to add a complete set of "normalizing" padding or margin elements.
Its best to style for what you need by explicitly stating the padding and margin for the elements you are using on your pages.
Paddings are usually 0 everywhere. It are the margins which are the most disbalanced among browsers. Just define your own margins on HTML block elements. A CSS reset is like a sledgehammer. You'd need to redefine more than only margins. But it may be helpful for beginners since they often can't at first glance distinguish between default inline and block elements in HTML. A CSS reset would force them to redefine the one and other "the right way".
Related questions:
Are margin and padding the most disbalanced among browsers?
That said, if you keep seeing inconsistencies among browsers, then it may happen that you're using a doctype which forces the browser into quirksmode. In MSIE the box model bug would then come alive. You'd like to use a strict doctype: <!DOCTYPE html>.
See also:
Activating browser modes with doctype