The appearance of the web site in IE is different from Firefox…

[sudheer_battula]

Hello every one, recently i am developing a web site and now if i see the webpages in IE, it looks good (i.e. the way that i am looking for) but if i see the same web page on Firefox then the appearance is different, like font overlapping etc, let me know how to avoid this problem...
thanks in advance for the wonderful help...

[boogyman]

design for other browsers and test in ie. you will find that IE renders a webpage quite differently from all other browsers. They are a little slow in applying standards to their browsers, and their rendering engine (program that takes the code and turns it into what you see) is configured a lil bit off.

[sudheer_battula]

Hello every one,
actually i am designing a web site, and now when i see the preview of the page in IE, then the appearance is as like the same that i am expecting(as well as i designed) but if u see the same page with Mozilla Firefox then the entire appearance is missing like fonts overlapping, misalignment's in table rows etc, can any one explain whats happening and help me about this different behavior, as i want same appearance in both the browsers...

[boogyman]

the rendering engines are different.

all browsers have different idiosyncrasies (minute individual behaviors), however it seems that IE's lead to many developmental problems. because of this problem alot of web designers / programmers have come to hate, possibly loathe, IE.

however we really can't expect much from Micro$haft in the first place anyway :) lol


but sud, you will see differences in the webpage in every browser, IE's are just more pronounced, and unfortunately IE is still the most popular web browser program, so its really just something you need to test. My suggestion would be to develop in a more standard compliant browser such as Firefox / Opera / Safari and then fix the IE version, and you would be safe to say that the majority of the other browsers will look decent.

[djr33]

I merged the two different threads into one. Please do not post twice.

[AmenKa]

i hate ie... firefox shows things i am looking for perfectly, while ie continues to render them with annoying inaccuracy... for me it is mainly that ie seems incapable of keeping the center of a page in one location (ex. css background image is centered, and table is centered but the center of each is a few px off...)

[insanemonkey]

Its not whether firefox, internet explorer, or others are better, lot of people are starting to use firefox but internet explorer will still remane number of all browser since it was made by microsoft and it is first installed on your machine,

also I hate firefox, lol, its neat in all but doesn't matter its complete change when moving from IE to firefox.

I would recommend just trying to change big details in your browsers and just tell costumers that your site was made with IE,

IE made there browser better becuase they didn't obey browsers rules sumthin like that but firefox and opera obeys these rules and is why they might be liked more, doesn't matter to me..

FIREFOX SUCKS!!!!! they are just like any other browser that just became more popular of one...

Opera is different though and really messes up tables width and other stuff
in opera you can not use percentages in css becuase it messes up everything..

oooh very long.... HA!

I make all my site in IE since it looks so much better, I would tell you todo the same other!

[molendijk]

Telling everybody that browser X sucks whereas browser Y is OK won't help anyone who wants to have his / her site to show correctly in all browsers.
My advice: construct your site for Firefox, then see how it looks in Internet Explorer. You can then correct things for Internet Explorer by adding code preceded by '_'. For instance, if 'left:20px' gives good results for Firefox, whereas IE only looks good with 'left:40px', then put 'left:20px;_left:40px' ('underscore hack'). Always put the values with '_' after all the other values. (The underscore is only recognized by IE).

Arie Molendijk.