Browser Issues

[scottiecl]

Ok- I really need some help here.

I have been working WITH websites for a while now but coding them for less than a year.

I am having a problem with sites "breaking" in different browsers and it is most likely table- and CSS-related, from what I can see.

A current client uses the Opera browser and the site I am building looks like total **** in her browser. Some font information is discarded and text is overrunning the table cells. Possibly, some of the table attributes like colspan and height are being ignored as well. I am seeing the exact same issue in some versions of the AOL browser as well and ancient Netscape, if that helps narrow the problem down.

It must be me because I checked all my sites in it and they are all rendered badly- I checked a lot of other sites that look fine.

Any hints from the pros? Should I add font tags in addition to the CSS info? I don't want to "break" the sites for the majority of netscape/ie users, but I have to fix this site so that is looks right for the client. And I would like to know the right way to do it.

Thanks in advance! :)

[WebSavvy]

Hi Scottie,

I used to have AOL 5.0 and Internet Explorer 5.5 and CSS would display a page as intended, without it looking funny and the CSS tags did not have to be in any particular order.

However, after upgrading to AOL 6.0 and Internet Explorer 6.0, I saw lots of display issues with my sites that were using CSS.

In the files as you list the attributes for the fonts, list the
text-decoration: none last. The files also need to list the attributes for font sizes in order to display properly.

Hope this helps.

[scottiecl]

I have discovered part of the problem was spaces in my style sheet between the numbers and designation, ie 25 px instead of 25px.

Still having some table issues that I don't quite understand but I have a friend looking at at too.

If anyone has any ideas...:confused:
Thanks!

[WebSavvy]

Scottie, did you end each declaration with the ";"

If you need a little extra help, PM me the details and I'll look at it for you. I am very, very, familiar with web code and also CSS. JavaScript, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, DHTML (HTML), are all what I do.