hello, I'm working on a simple css based navigation bar and i find that whatever i do to keep the sizes of buttons consistant with the size of the background for one browser messes it up for others. Currently, the nav bar is using px and inches to determine its size, and i mean to change that to pt and ems for accesability, though i would think display of my navbar would be more consistant using px. here is the relevant css and html (cut and paste will show you what i see on my site): in the current form now it works in IE7 and FF (dont know version) on my windows machine but not the FF on my linux machine (FF 1.5.0.9) nor on safari. There must be a solid way to do this that works on all browsers (obviously i'm totally ignorant of the cruelty that is the real web), or at least a better way than I'm doing it now.
On some css forums, they ask that you post the simplest code that will re-create your problem so that: 1. The ammount of code people need to read through is minimized and 2. so that, once the problem is solved, both the buggy and correct code can still be found by others with the same problem. I think this is a superior way of doing things, otherwise archiving the forum is useless and searching it just as much so. cutting and pasting what i posted into an empty file would have shown you the page i was trying to debug. Anyways, i resolved this problem by trying different iterations of code in FF and then making changes to get it to work in IE. I had no insight, just blind hacking. Since this forum is pretty useless for searching to find solutions, i wont bother posting it. good luck all