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What do you have to do to make pages that display fine in Explorer, display right in Firefox?

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I am making a fairly simple website, and using a pre-made template. It displays perfectly in Explorer, but the tables don’t fit the background images, when I view in Firefox.

Is there a simple fix?

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  1. Mictlan_KISS on Mar 10, 2011

    Usually you place the tags specific to each Browser and the Page will autosense, or, have an option on a start page for each browser, this usually means a page set for each Browser, or at least some CSS pages that will be flexible.

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  2. RevKev on Mar 10, 2011

    I’d have to see your template to know what you need to do differently. I know the biggest correction I have to make is with centering. IE centers all objects, as well as text, in a containing block if that containing block has the CSS statement text-align:center applied to it, while other browsers will not center some of the objects, and the uncentered objects then require margin-left:auto and margin-right:auto to center them. Things still change from browser to browser, but its better than it used to be, and it will get even better with time.

    Another suggestion is to run your files through XHTML and CSS validators to search for any errors, as they can be responsible for inconsistant rendering. If your code is messy or old, you may wish to run it through HTML Tidy to clean it up. These three resources are available at http://www.w3.org.

    Again, this is the best answer I can give without seeing your file. Hopefully, this can solve your problem.

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  3. Pfo on Mar 10, 2011

    There are some simple fixes. We had the same problem with a visual studio component that generated reports. Our solution was to use a hidden textbox the width of the page in the table to force the table to expand, instead of collapsing all of its contents into an inch of space. There are some workaround solutions, most involve tables, and the information is on the internet.

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  4. blazkiar on Mar 10, 2011

    Genereally you develop first on firefox as it more standard compliant than IE6/7. Your template works on IE beceause was probably tweaked for IE. So correct first for firefox, then using conditional
    statement

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