CSS - Confused About 3-digit Hex Codes

I'm confused about why IE is rendering this correctly and FF is not. the main wrapper for the content isn't stretching with the image floating on the right. I know I'm missing something but I can't see what. I just started building this so there will be some styling missing but I wanted to at least get the basic elements working first.

Can someone please help me see what I'm missing here?

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Thanks,

Brad

This is driving me insane.

What is happening here? The green <div> should be the same width as the table - and that width should be 830px.

It looks like IE is stretching the table wider than it should be... but if so then why?

When you consider that the table is 830px wide, the pink div is 730px, the green div is 850px, the red div is 620px and the blue div is 100px, you can see that absolutely nothing is lining up correctly. It all seems quite random.

PHP Code:
// containg div
<div style="width:834px; padding:0; margin:0 auto; clear:both; text-align: left; float:left;">

// table
<table width="830px" cols="10" rows="$rows" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" style="border-top:1px solid #CCCCCC; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC;">

// pink div
<div style="border: 2px solid #FF00FF; width:730px; padding: 0; margin:0;">&nbsp;</div>

// green div
<div style="width:100%; margin:0; padding:0; border: 2px solid #00FF00;">

// red div
 <div style="border:2px dashed #FF0000; float:left; width:620px; margin: 0; padding: 2px 2px 2px 100px; text-align:center;">

// blue div
<div style="border:2px dashed #0000FF; float:right; width:100px; text-align:right; margin: 0; padding: 2px;"> 





Internet Explorer:


Firefox:


Thanks,

I am very confused how best to define my style sheet for a given goal. Here is what I need to do:

I need to have various styles of tables. Some whose text is centered (like the table header), some whose text is left justified. I need to be able to define link colors for each different type of table (i.e. a.link, a.active, etc).

I just don't know how to proceed. It seems that I would do something like

Code:

TD.centered {
text-align: center;
}


TD.left{
text-align: left;
}

But then I don't know how to define the link colors. Would I have to do something like

Code:

.centered a:link {
color: #000000;
}

Isn't there a way I can create one selector that contains everything without having to have all these separate entries?

Any help is vastly appreciated!

Also, I am confused by the use of SPAN. Is this still used? Or is it best to specify the class in the element tag?

thanks,

brian

Hey,

Ok I have a external CSS file and in their I have

Code:

TD { background-color:#FFFFFF; font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size:11px; color:#000000; font-weight:normal; }

The project has been handed to me to finish off / make changes to and the origonal person just gave all TDs a white bg which is fine but now the site is being changed to have a bit of graphics on the header and footer.

With all TD's having the above code it blocks the background image from showing.

Is their away I can keep it set for al TDs to have the white background but sort of exclude some TD's?

I have tried doing a

Code:

TD.footer  {font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size:11px; color:#000000; font-weight:normal;}

which I thought would cancel out the background color of the TD code above but it has not worked.

I dont want to rename the first code I pasted because I would have to go through and change each and every single TD to have the class.. and thats over 30 pages of changes I would have to do..

Any help is greatly appreciated..

Thank you in advance

ok

I have been reading how we shouldnt use px as they dont scale well or whatever.. but I have just tested px in my css and when I resize the size the text scales pretty much the same a with ems or %..

but what doesnt happen is if I resize the browser window itself, the text doesn't scale up or down... with any of the units? is this the standard behaviour?

because what I am thinking should happen is that if I reduce the size of browser, the font size should get relatively smaller and vice versa.