Website design - Why does Explorer display different than Firefox? Is there a work around?

Question

I'm in the process of designing a very simple website using Webdwarf. Problem is that while it displays properly in Firefox and Safari, it doesn't in Internet Explorer or Opera - the text starts about 3/4 of the way down the page. Any way to get them both to display properly?

Answer 1

Unfortunately you are running into a problem web designers have had for a LONG time. These browsers all use different ways to render html hence you r site looking different in multiple browsers.



Since IE has majority of marketplace people tend to code to IE then hack it to work with firefox. I personally design in firefox then attach a seperate stylesheet (CSS) for IE.



I attached a link to code for how to attach IE specific stylesheets..



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Answer 2

Most browsers follow (to a greater or lesser accuracy) the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standard. Microsoft is getting better, but still insists on releasing browsers that are far from the standard.



There are ways to get a page to display properly, but it's not easy. Check http://www.positioniseverything.com/ - they have quite a few articles on IE bugs and how to work around them. (Decide on how far back [4.0? 5.01? 5.5?] you want to support, and which versions [Windows? Mac?] you want to support, then add the code you'll need for any construct that any version of IE handles differently. It's usually at least as much work as designing the site in the first place.)

Answer 3

You just have to tweak your codes. We all have that problem and i've started doing my pages using IE7 and then when they display properly, I check them with FF.



FF is much stricter on divs than IE is and there are several things FF just won't do, like mouseover links in Iframes. It might seem like a reverse thing to set for IE first but it works for me.



10 times as many IE peeps will see your pages as FF peeps.

Answer 4

yeah.... ie is stupid. Not to mention most internet users have it.



Create a separate style sheet for ie. If you are not using CSS this would be a good time to start!



Good Luck

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