Please Help

[bhazzard]

http://mason.gmu.edu/~rpotter/ietsampleAlright so I coded this site (really basic and not done yet) but before I get too far into it I wanted to check its compatibility. So if you have time, please help me. Look at in in IE, this is the way it is supposed to look. Then look at it in Netscape/firefox... how can I fix it so that it looks the way it does in IE?Thanks,Brian

[bhazzard]

By the way, if you need the css for this page... http://mason.gmu.edu/~rpotter/ietsample/splash-style.csshttp://mason.gmu.edu/~rpotter/ietsample/general.csshttp://mason.gmu.edu/~rpotter/ietsample/menu.css

[lugos]

http://mason.gmu.edu/~rpotter/ietsampleAlright so I coded this site (really basic and not done yet) but before I get too far into it I wanted to check its compatibility. So if you have time, please help me. Look at in in IE, this is the way it is supposed to look. Then look at it in Netscape/firefox... how can I fix it so that it looks the way it does in IE?Thanks,Brian

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Hello, I got this from one of your stylesheets: #menu dl { left: 60px; float: left; width: 140 px; margin-left: 0px;}Try deleting the space between the '140' and the 'px' for your width. I hope that helps.lugos

[lugos]

Also, I see that you specify the width for the dl tags, but not for the dd tags (which appear to be the submenus). You may want to specify the width for firefox's sake. I have learned the hard way that, at times, you have to be explicit with firefox. You may be able to get away with not specifying the width for the dd tags.lugos

[bhazzard]

thank you lugos. Those points have been helpful.I am still having a problem however with the way it displays. I "fixed" it, but now it displays properly in firefox and IE unles font size is increased by the user.

[lugos]

Hello,If you don't mind displaying a scrollbar, try including the 'overflow' property in your welcome div and set it to 'auto' (overflow: auto;). That should automatically display a scrollbar if they set the font too big. You can apply styles to the scrollbar (http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/stylesheets/scrollbars.html), but it only works in IE 5.5+ and won't work for other browsers. As far as the menus are concerned, I'm not too sure myself what can be done. I do notice that as the text size is increased in Firefox (IE too but more so Firefox because it displays bigger font sizes), the width does not change, but the height does. It could be because the width is specified. Try specifying the height for the menu and see what happens. As far as the submenus, I'm not too sure what the best solution is either. I did a quick search on this and found a discussion on how to best specify the font size (px, pt, em) that may be helpful for you: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/8968.htm. Apparently using px for the fone-size prevents the text size from changing in IE; however, it does not prevent it in Firefox. Check it out and let us know what you choose.I hope this helps.Thanks,lugos