Firefox vs Internet Exploer issue: slight formatting variance

[♥peterpil19]

I posted this here, because considering the differences between browsers is a next step/marketing issue.

 

I have a particular question if anyone can help:

 

Internet Explorer: all OK

 

Firefox: all OK except Categories menu--> the highlighted text doesn't work the same, it only highlights half the length. This is strange.

 

What exactly does firefox see differently from internet explorer? I have noticed slight formatting differences when comparing the two.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Peter A. Piliouras

[muskokee]

What exactly does firefox see differently from internet explorer? I have noticed slight formatting differences when comparing the two.

 

I'm not a css guru or anything but Firefox seems to be applying the hover color to the contents of the tag while IE is applying the hover color to the width of the tag. I also noticed that IE is applying a padding to the tag that Firefox is not.

 

You might try background repeat with a 1px image of your color. Not sure if that would work though.

 

Whenever I see a discrepancy between IE and any other browser (and there are lots of them) I always use an if statement like:

 

<!--[if IE]>
special instructions for IE
<![endif]-->

 

and then I can tell IE to do something that only it will read.

 

Sheri

[♥Vger]

Firefox is generally more standards compliant than IE, and provides a lot of useful developments tools for web designers to use, but it's still a fact that you have to code workarounds for all of the areas in which IE is not compliant - because most of your customers will be using IE and not Firefox.

 

I'm not even going to get into the debate about the IE margins bug or the way they both handle css elements differently.

 

Vger

[muskokee]

I'm not even going to get into the debate about the IE margins bug or the way they both handle css elements differently.

Vger

 

Absolutely! We would be here forever ranting about IE! :-" I just implemented a couple of width "expression"s today to make IE behave itself. As long as there are whips out there to tame the IE beast I am ok with it. :D

 

Sheri

[♥peterpil19]

Thanks guys.

 

I will have a look into those if statements Sheri, thanks for pointing it out.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Peter Pil

[♥peterpil19]

Fixed!

 

I revised the relevant part of the css and found the faulty code.

 

Thanks again guys.

 

--Peter