Question about Firefox

[pogy366]

... i've recently started using Firefox and realized that my website(s) look like pure junk, although they run fine in IE, Netscape and Opera. Does Firefox read CSS differently? :confused:

[MstrBob]

Firefox reads CSS Properly.

http://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

[pogy366]

... thanks, i'll give it a shot.

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

yes it does, all browser do interpret css differently, but most of the time you can have your page outputs almost identically on both IE and Mozilla FireFox.
If your pages are validated( http://validator.w3.org ) then, you shouldnt have too much problems with the output.
but try to have your pages ressemble one another, so people with IE (resp. Mozilla) wont be disadvantaged.

[amazing_andr3]

Validation won't do much good. Perfectly valid CSS and HTML can look very different in Firefox and IE, because they handle thigs like padding differently.

The only thing that works for me is trying all the alternatives until I find one where all the browsers agree. There's so many alternatives in CSS, I have always managed to get IE and Motzilla to agree (never tried the other browsers though).

[IncaWarrior]

If you did it right it will look good in opera

[Stephen Philbin]

Originally posted by IncaWarrior
If you did it right it will look good in opera

Not always true. Opera is not nearly as bad as IE, but you still have to watch it closely for misbehaviour. Having said that though, you should be doing that with all the browsers anyway. You should never just assume something works. Check it.

Anyway. On to something slightly more useful:


* {border:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;}


Slap that as the first thing in yer style sheets and it'll be a very major step towards making all the browsers do what you want them to.

[pogy366]

... i was finally able to get it squared away and it looks the same in all bwosers. Thanks for the input everyone.

[pogy366]

... i've learned that Firefox is much less forgiving with sloppy CSS than IE or Opera :rolleyes:

[IncaWarrior]

Well from the Opera point of view, firefox isn't as bad as IE but it has misbehaviors. Some of the guidelines aren't specific in how they are implemented so you have to work around with testing in each browser to make sure it works.