Browser View Problem
Hi
I am just putting together a site but I have a problem I just can't figure out.
tourlimerick.com
I use IE but most staff at work use Netscape. My site views toatally different on their screen to mine. By that I mean, on my screen the table that makes up my site takes up most of the screen (when viewed in IE) when I preview in Netscape the table seems smaller with wider margins at the side but when my work colleagues who also view it in Netscape, the margins are really wide at both sides and the text is a lot smaller making the main table of my site look lost in the center of the screen. I have viewed my site in anybrowser.com but still can't get to the bottom of it and am concerned that this factor is seriously effecting the impact of the page. Any help or advice would be really appreciated.Many thanks.
Rayna posted this at 21:06 — 28th January 2002.
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The only differences I see between my view in IE 5.5 and NS 4.7 are the table borders and the text size.
Netscape 4.X does not compute border color in tables that is why the borders look different in NS. The only way to get the same border effect in NS 4.x is to use nesting tables which I don't reall recommend.
You also haven't set a font size so NS and IE are displaying them at their default size. font size="X" is what you need for it to display similar in both browsers. Keep in mind that every browser displays font size a little different. NS tends to render 8 pt (font size="1") text almost completely illegible on some screens.
If you would like more control of your font color and size I would recommend reading up on CSS.
Brooke posted this at 21:24 — 28th January 2002.
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All I see is that the borders are white in ie and look like the default in netscape. To fix:
instad of having borders, make the borders thin cells and then put a little square ofthe same color in. Make the cell backround the same color as the square. That way it appears that you have borders and they show up in both brwsers.
Make sense?
Brooke
Busy posted this at 21:36 — 28th January 2002.
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you can get the same effect as in IE for NS and others by using one table to hold your layout (not a seperate one for each bit) and nest this table in two others with the middle one having a white background (which shows as the cell borders), the first table has a cellspacing of 1, second table has cellpadding or 10 in this case and the third cellspacing of 1, nesting this way is quite exceptable
doing this way would cut down with coding which in turn would speed up your load time
btw, do you realise you've doubled up all your meta tags? this could be seen by search engines as spaming.
dove posted this at 08:18 — 29th January 2002.
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Thanks for all your advice I will try it out. Back to the drawing board!
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