Not signed in (Sign In)

SkillShare - A place to discuss Web Standards and Web Design topics

Categories

Vanilla 1.1.5a is a product of Lussumo. More Information: Documentation, Community Support.

    • CommentAuthortarik916
    • CommentTimeFeb 27th 2006
     permalink
    Please checkout my site and code and let me know why it does not work in FireFox:
    http://www.bmxgallery.net/BACKpage.html
    •  
      CommentAuthorekkoe
    • CommentTimeFeb 28th 2006
     permalink
    Hi tarik916.
    If the way the page appears in IE is how you want to to work, then your problem is that Firefox is correctly setting your page width to 800px, as you have set it in your CSS:

    ---------------------

    #container {
    height: 600px;
    width: 800px;
    etc.}
    ---------------------

    IE, however, is (incorrectly) increasing the width of #container according to its contents (i.e. all the 'm's). This is making your container reach roughly 947px in width.

    If you would like the page to expand as your content expands, then the first thing to try is to remove the width property altogether. Also, putting a really long line of letters without a space isn't a good way to test a layout, because it often ends up overflowing its containers, and also, you're not likely to have such a long word without spaces when the site is complete :)

    Let me know how you get on, or if this is unclear.

    Ben
Add your comments
    Username Password
  • Format comments as (Help)