Mozilla Firefox vs IE......why the difference?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by DMK, Jun 13, 2007.

  1. #1
    Not sure whether this should go in the reviews sections but I think it's more of html so thought of putting it here.

    I'am creating a forum (ippilots.com/forum) and facing a lot of differences when viewed in Firefox and IE.

    To get started with......
    - My header gets a link in Firefox but not in IE (this looks nice in IE but not in firefox).
    - The space between the top buttons is not same (this looks nice in Firefox but not in IE).

    I spent a lot of time trying to make my site look the same in Firefox and IE but it seems impossible.

    Wonder what other differences I would face in the future :confused:

    Is this the way Firefox and IE handle websites/forums?
     
    DMK, Jun 13, 2007 IP
  2. LeetPCUser

    LeetPCUser Peon

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    Both Firefox and IE have different setting with padding and margins. Due to this many things don't exactly look the same unless you force them to with CSS. However, with IE7 it looks a lot more like Firefox than it ever has.
     
    LeetPCUser, Jun 13, 2007 IP
  3. Digital Artist

    Digital Artist Active Member

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    you kindly check your document type of your web page some time it your layout will be align left in IE7 and in firefox it will accurate if the doccument type are same the may be there should be very less issue and in css file use only one type of size if u r using 0 px than in the whole document use px it will also help u and check out the div tags in ur html that all are close or not hope u will be have i little bit idea if still prob let me know
     
    Digital Artist, Jun 13, 2007 IP
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    When surfing with FF I almost always come across a site with the text overlapping other text nearby on the page. It is annoying especially when they are big messages too.

    Its hard to figure out what they say sometimes too, as highlighting them can have complications.

    IE wont have the same display issues, but I still prefer to use FF anyways.
     
    hazeyindahead, Jun 13, 2007 IP