Internet Explorer and Firefox

[iancau]

My site displays correctly in Firefox but the main central display area is too narrow in Internet Explorer. Can anyone help?

[shooter-boy]

Link?

 

It is likely a CSS issue.

 

Rob

[iancau]

Link?

 

It is likely a CSS issue.

 

Rob

 

Many thanks Rob. I'm sure you are right. Unfortunately I've been through stylesheet.css with a fine-tooth-comb and can find nothing wrong. Apart from color changes it is identical to that supplied by osCommerce. Have you any ideas regarding what to look for. I'm stumped. Many thanks

 

Ian

[Guest]

Without a link I don't think anyone will be able to tell you what the solution is. Off the top of my head it could be the images are displaying in different sizes and therefore making the page narrower. If a page such as privacy looks the same in both browsers then you need to look at the content of the pages that are different.

[minionsweb]

IE and firefox render differently due to how the define different elements within your code.

Tables, lines, cells are all defined in accordance to each of their interpretation of how the HTML compliance rules are written.

Where one measures include the entire cell (along with borders, margins, offset etc.) the other measure is counted to the interior of the cell body.

Other elements are interpreted differently as well, hence why the 2 browsers parse the code differently.

 

You can google css workarounds for ie & firefox rendering to help you resolve the appearance issues.

[iancau]

Without a link I don't think anyone will be able to tell you what the solution is. Off the top of my head it could be the images are displaying in different sizes and therefore making the page narrower. If a page such as privacy looks the same in both browsers then you need to look at the content of the pages that are different.

 

Thankyou Peter

 

The images display as same size, they are just packed more closely together. The URL is grains2millshop.co.uk

 

Many thanks

 

Ian

[iancau]

IE and firefox render differently due to how the define different elements within your code.

Tables, lines, cells are all defined in accordance to each of their interpretation of how the HTML compliance rules are written.

Where one measures include the entire cell (along with borders, margins, offset etc.) the other measure is counted to the interior of the cell body.

Other elements are interpreted differently as well, hence why the 2 browsers parse the code differently.

 

You can google css workarounds for ie & firefox rendering to help you resolve the appearance issues.

 

millionsweb

 

Many Thanks

 

Yuu have explained the problems which I am experiencing. I will now try to hack around them.

 

Thanks again

 

Ian

[shooter-boy]

You shouldn't have to *hack* around them.

 

While all browsers do indeed interperet code differently, properly written code by a competent coder will yield virtually identical results across ALL browsers with virtually zero *hacking*.

 

Hacking is really a slack way out unless all other options have been exhausted first.

 

Rob

[iancau]

You shouldn't have to *hack* around them.

 

While all browsers do indeed interperet code differently, properly written code by a competent coder will yield virtually identical results across ALL browsers with virtually zero *hacking*.

 

Hacking is really a slack way out unless all other options have been exhausted first.

 

Rob

 

Thanks Rob

 

Unfortunately I'm stuck. Please help if you can. Any suggestions would be very welcome. My site is www.grains2millshop.co.uk and this problem occured before I had made any significent coding changes (only color changes) to the osCommerce code. I'm at a loss as to why the display shrinks in IE.

 

Many thanks

 

Ian

[Guest]

It displays the the same for me in Firefox and IE 7

[iancau]

I have sorted the problem. It was a coding error - but not in the index.php file or in the stylesheet.css file as I thought. It was a very small error in left_column.php.

 

Thanks to all who offered help.

 

Regards iancau