Site looks very different in IE and Firefox

[SamuraiBlue]

Huge difference in site design here:

http://www.travelman.jp/introeng.html

In IE it looks fine. I know it's always an issue with IE and Firefox, but in Firefox the format and Japanese characters are all wrong. Can anyone help? Thanks.

[scragar]

OK, let's get a few things off the bat:
tables are not good ways to do lists of links, it's wasteful and unwanted.
pages should not be designed for 100% of the screen, 1 missed piece of padding, a forgotten margin, or simply a rounding error causes the effect your seeing, always aim to account for 95-97% of the screen to be sure.
Japanese characters in firefox 3 are displayed according to the correct standards as they have stood for years, use unicode if it doesn't work, your not defining a character set, won't hurt to do so.

[drhowarddrfine]

It's always in issue with IE, rarely Firefox. You will never get IE to attempt to perform like modern browsers without a proper doctype. Plus, you are using Xhtml end tags without declaring Xhtml. In addition, you want to use international characters but aren't using/declaring international as scragar mentioned.

[ray326]

Put a valid doctype on it and they'll probably display the same.

[Sakari]

Hi


Most of time i hear this problem like my contents are misplaced in IE but in firefox it is allright or in firefox text are more darker than in the IE. How can be it happen and it is a major problem for the web designers who spend his time and hardwork for design a site and at the end these type of problems are occurs.


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[SamuraiBlue]

Thanks very much for all the replies. The doctype issue was checked out before, and didn't seem to make any difference, but the info from scragar gives me something to think about.