Why the sidebar of my site look different in FF and IE 8

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by digitalarts, Jul 16, 2009.

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    I have come across a peculiar issue...where in the extreme sidebar in the single posts of my blog looks different in FF 3.5 and IE 8.

    For example you can browse to the following lnk:

    http://techiezone.in/featured/windows-xp-mode-in-windows-7/


    Look at the extreme sidebar (the wider one) in Firefox as well as IE. The section headers are all white in IE...

    Please sugegst me some solution else I wll get mad....
     
    digitalarts, Jul 16, 2009 IP
  2. mjewel

    mjewel Prominent Member

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    All browsers are different and can handle css differently. You have a lot more problems when viewing your site in ie6. You can find a lot of css sites that talk about the differences and how to fix them or you could hire someone to go through your entire code and fix it for you. You also have a lot of validation errors (over 100) some of which could be causing the problem http://validator.w3.org/.
     
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  3. digitalarts

    digitalarts Peon

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    I have gone through those validation erro and they seems to be different....Infact these error shown n validators can be safely ignored.
     
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    drhowarddrfine Peon

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    Generally, the only browser that will cause significant problems is any version of IE. If you follow web standards and use a modern browser to initially test your markup (that is, anything but IE), then the only browser that you will have to hack will be IE. If you use IE to test your markup, you will have endless problems.
    Plus 27 CSS errors. The first thing we experienced developers do is validate our html and css. There is no excuse for any web page to have invalid markup.
     
    drhowarddrfine, Jul 16, 2009 IP