View Full Version : My Site Text Looks Fine in IE but Completely Off in Firefox
heathabear
July 27th, 2004, 07:34 AM
I'm making a new LiveJournal layout here:
http://heathabear.livejournal.com
When I view it in IE, everything looks fine, but when I view it in Firefox, the text of the journal entries is all jumbled together. My journal is friends-only, so I've made one of the entries public so that you can see what I mean. How do I stop the text from being jumbled together in the middle in Firefox? Thanks so much! I really appreciate it!
By the way, the layout isn't finished yet, so please just ignore the fact that the text and the images don't really go together.
Pancake
July 27th, 2004, 08:31 AM
Its the way the browser is set up to read the code.If you look in Netscape it will appear different again.Not much can be done about it.Thats why you see web pages with a note at the bottom "Best viewed in Netscape" or Internet Explorer 5.5. The browser manufacturers just have not got together and sorted out a universal code that can be recognised by all..
rockboy
July 27th, 2004, 10:45 AM
You have some html page problems. Firefox (and Mozilla) are less forgiving than IE with most types of invalid code.
You need to fix the html file layout by properly relocating your </head> tag and adding a <body> tag. Put them just before the tag that says:
<table bgcolor="#FFD3D3">
It should read:
</head>
<body>
<table bgcolor="#FFD3D3">
That might not fix it but it's a start. I'm not sure of the effects of your style tags where you have tables as parents of tables, etc.
Another thing you could tryout is to just delete this part of your style section:
table table table {
width: 0;
}
Fix the page and then check it out.
degsy
July 27th, 2004, 04:19 PM
Have you fixed the problem?
only difference I see is that in IE the table is Centered on screen and in Moz it is on the Left.
heathabear
July 27th, 2004, 06:47 PM
Ok, I seemed to have figured it out. Thank you so much for all of your help on this problem and others!
rockboy
July 27th, 2004, 07:56 PM
It looks pretty much the same in IE and Firefox now. Glad it worked for you. :)
The only remaining problem that I noticed is the extra </head> tag just under your <title> tag. Just delete the extra </head> tag. It's apparentlly not a problem in displaying the page now but it might cause a problem with something later.
heathabear
July 27th, 2004, 11:39 PM
Will do! Thanks for pointing that out!
Now off to see why GMail didn't notify me of your reply/see if I'm missing other messages, too. :p
propilotguide
June 12th, 2006, 10:36 AM
I am having the same problem with my site and when I view my site using IE it looks good, but with Firefox it's a mess. Can someone help me figure out why this is happening? Any help or advice is greatly appreciated! :thrilled:
Kyle Stephens
www.propilotguide.com