CSS - Cross Browser Design Problem

I am having problem making this cross browser friendly



Code:

/* Div Structure */

#heading { 
margin: 0;
position: relative;
top: -20px;
background-color:#0066CC;
}

#search { 
float: left;



}


#img {
float:left;
}

#text {
float:right;
}

#phone {

position: relative ;
float: right ;
top: 15px ;
right: 10px


}


#head {
margin: 5px ;
padding: 0; 
height: 195px;
background-color: #FDFCFF;
border: solid;
border-color: #0066CC; 
border-width: 2px; 
background-color: #FDFCFF;
}



#headnav {
float: right ;
margin: 100px 17px 5px 10px; 
padding: 0;
}

#sidebar {
float: left ;
background-color:#FDFCFF;
border-width:2px;
border-style:solid;
border-color: #0066CC;
padding: 10px;
width: 170px;
margin: 2px;
margin-top: 5px;
height: 530px ; 
}

#mainpage { 
float: right; 
position:relative; 
width: 730px ; 
right:  -5px; 
left: -5px;
border: solid;
border-color: #0066CC; 
border-width: 2px; 
background-color: #FDFCFF;

margin-top: 5px;



}

/* Side Bar */

	#sidebar h3 {
		color:black; 
		font-size: 11px;
		font-weight: normal;
		letter-spacing: 0.2em;
		margin: 5px;
		padding: 0px;
		text-transform: uppercase;
		border-bottom:dashed;
		border-bottom-color:black;
		border-width: 1px;
		}
		
	#sidebar ul, #sidebar ol {
		list-style: none;
		margin: 0;
		padding: 0;
	
		
		
		}
		
		
		
	
	
	#sidebar li {

		margin: 0;
		list-style:none;
		padding: 0;
		font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size:12px;
		}
		
	#sidebar a {
		color: #9999FF;
		text-decoration:none;
		}
		
	#sidebar a:hover {
	color: black;
	text-decoration:underline;

	}
		
	#sidebar div { 
		margin: 20px 0;
		padding: 0;
		}
/* Header Style */ 

	#head h1  {
	font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ;
	letter-spacing: 0.5em;
	font-size: 2em;
	color: black;
	
	}
	#head a { 
	color: black; 
	text-decoration: none;
	}
	
	
/* Head Nav */ 

	
	#headnav a  { 
	color: black; 
	text-decoration:none; 
	}
	#headnav a:hover { 
	text-decoration:underline;
	}
	
	#headnav p { 
	color:black; 
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:0.1em;
	
	}

/* Main Page */ 

	#mainpage img { 
	padding: 10px;
	}
	
	#mainpage h2 { 
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
	color:black; 
	letter-spacing: 0.5em;
	font-style: bold ;
	border-bottom: solid;
	border-bottom-color:#0066CC;
	border-bottom-width: 2px;
	
	}
	#mainpage p {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	
	}
	
	#mainpage li { 
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	
	} 
	
	#mainpage h3 { 
	font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
	border-bottom: dotted; 
	border-bottom-color: black;
	border-bottom-width: 1px ;
	latter-spacing: 0.2 em; 
	font-size:18px;
	}
	
	#mainpage a {
	color: #910B2D;
	text-decoration:none;
	}
	
	#mainpage a:hover {
	color:silver;
	text-decoration:underline;
	}
	
	/* Phone */ 
	
	#phone p { 
	color: black ;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 18px ;

}

/* Heading's */ 

#heading h2 { 
color: white; 
}

Anyone have any recommendations on a good program to check cross browser stuff. I am tired of having to open every browser up to check my sites.

Also, anyone know any good links for getting better at coding for cross browser CSS?

Thanks!

Hi;

I don't mind writing straight CSS with a text editor; my big problem is cross-browser compatibility -- getting all those tweaks for everything you do to include ie 5, 6 & 7 (I guess we can drop 5 by now).

To that end, I don't object to using an IDE or other tool to develop cross browser CSS. So my question is, what is/are the best resources available to handle the cross-browser issues; from broken box model, etc.

** I know about ie7-js from Dean Edwards, but I don't know how well that works.

** I know about some CSS IDE's like Aptana & Stylizer; but again I don't really know how well they handle these issues.

** And I would like to hope there are some sites out there with total references that tells you everything you need to know about cross browser CSS, though all I've found so far are piecemeal articles; how to handle this or that aspect.

So in short, I don't expect one magic bullet (though that would be nice), but I'm looking for pointers to and evaluations of various resources that could be maybe used together to make this problem a little easier.

Thanks

i have a web site that i am redesigning and the redesign is @

http://cometosandiego.com/weekendvisit/index.php

it shows up GREAT in firefox

screwed in opera

and COMPLETLY out of wack in IE 6 and 7

what to do????

thanks

Hi all,

I'm relatively new to pure CSS (as opposed to hacking tables together) and I'm experiencing a cross-browser inconsistency that I'm hoping I can get help with.

I've created a table using DIVS as follows (I've given just one line as an example):

Code:

<div id='dashed_box'>

<div class='divleft'>Company Name:</div><div class='divright'><input type='text' name='company_name' size='32' class='boxes'></div>

<div class='spacer'>&nbsp;</div>
</div>

And the CSS is this:
Code:

#dashed_box
{
  border: 1px dashed #333333; 
  margin:5 auto;
  padding:5 auto;
  width: 600px;
}
.divleft {
  font-family: verdana;
  font-size: 12px;
  line-height: 20px;
  float: left;
  text-align: right;
  color: #000;
  width: 49%;
  }

.divright {
  font-family: verdana;
  font-size: 10px;
  float: right;
  text-align: left;
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #000;
  width: 49%;
  }
 
div.spacer {
  clear: both;
  }

..In IE7 the box is laid out perfectly, as I wanted it to:




..but in FireFox 5.0, it is laid out as follows, which I don't want:



Can anyone point out what I might be doing wrong?
Or might it be a case of defining HTTP_USER_AGENT and specifying CSS depending on browser?

All help appreciated.
Woolyg.

Hi there, I am reposting this question after removing the extraneous items from the site. Basically, I can get things to line up in either IE or FF, but not both, I have managed to solve this with past sites, but can't seem to figure this one out! Currently I have it set so it is correctly displayed in IE:

http://www.kohlrbaby.com/vcc/portfolio/portfolio.htm

Please, please help me to figure out how to do fixes for this issue, I have been searching online but can't seem to figure it out and am very frustrated!
Thanks so much and here is my CSS:

body {
margin: 0px 0px 30px 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #000000;
background-color: #999999;
text-align: center;

}
#title{
margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left:0px;
position: relative;
float: left;
clear: left;

}
#rightBox {
border-right: 2px solid #666666;
width:625px;
padding: 0px;
border-top: 2px solid #666666;
border-bottom: 2px solid #666666;
border-left: 2px solid #666666;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left:0px;
background: #ffffff;

}
.mainPic {
margin-top: -475px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-left: 30px;
position:relative;
float: left;
clear: left;
z-index: 100;
}

img.pic{
border-right: 1px solid #000000;
border-top: 1px solid #000000;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
border-left: 1px solid #000000;

}
PS: i know I don't need to have all my margin positions shown (ie: may eventually become margin: 0px), however I have kept it like this until I figure out what my problems are.

I know there are a lot of articles lying around about this problem, but im having trouble with css layout for a site im working on,

in IE6.0 the site displays as it should do.

in Opera 7.23 + 7.11 the site displays with the main text sitting on the logo for the page,

in firefox it displays as it does in opera.

I am using includes for the full page with no html in the index.php page, i have tried this without includes bur get the same problems as before.

the site addy is:

http://www.kptspanishproperties.org.uk

any help wpuld be great, also im not using tables just using css for all the layout needed

Hi All
Can anyone please tell me where am I going wrong in code below it fairly straight forward, Style switcher works fine. The problem is When I'm using Firefox background image doesn't show but there no problem in IE. why????
Thanks
Zed
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="styleSheetSwitcher.js"></script>
</head>

<body><center>
<div id="main">Hello
<div id="centerbox">world</div>
</div></center></body>
</html>

css code
Code:

#main {
		position: relative; 
		background-image:url(images/Driving_bkg3.gif);
		background-repeat: no-repeat;
		height: 100%;
		left: 5%;
}
    

    #centerbox {
        margin: -20% 3% 0 40%;
        padding: 0%;
        width: 41%;
        height: auto;
        background-color:#C9F;
        }

What do you use for Cross Browser Testing? I just came across BrowserCam ($25 per year) at fundable.org. Do you recommend it?

thank you.

Dr. Mk.

On this site http://www.freewaytransmissions.com I am having issues with the spacing on the navigation. The nav is an ul and I used inline css for spacing the links apart, but as you see in Chrome they are spaced correctly, but in IE they are not aligned correctly. If someone can shed some light I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Tom

Hi,

I have a template that works perfectly in Internet Explorer, but doesn't work well in all the other browsers.

Here is the template: http://www.gmaptools.com/redemo/format.html

(The scrollbar located on the right of the page doesn't contain to 100% height in the other browsers)

The entire page must stay at 100% height and 100% width, and work in the other browsers the same way it works in Internet Explorer.

Does anyone know why it isn't working in the other browsers?

I need it to work in:
1. Internet Explorer (Windows)
2. FireFox (Windows & Mac)
3. Opera (Windows)
4. Safari (Mac)

I really appreciate any assistance you can give me.

Thanks in advance,

I have the following site:

www.artsenvacature.nl

I've heard the site doesn't look nice on MAC OS (I've got a PC) and some tiny details fail on FireFox. It only looks perfect in IE 6.0.

Is anybody interested in making the CSS compatible? I'm very well willing to pay for it.

Hi

I have created a site which looks good in internet explorer.

But being a bit of a newb i never thot to check it in other browsers till now, and it just doesn't take my layout at all in opera or firefox

is there anything i can do to get around this?

cheers boyindie

How does one make a header like this cross browser compatible? It works in most browsers but I noticed in IE8 it renders the header weird. Here is the CSS:
Code:

.header { position: relative; padding-bottom: 0; z-index: 20; }
#banner-top { float: right; line-height: 0; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px; }
.logo { float: left; margin: 0 50px 0 20px; }
.logo.image { line-height: 0px; }
.logo .plain-text { font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; font-weight: bold; }
.logo #tagline { font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; }

#search-bar { float:left;
              margin-top:25px;
              z-index:500;}

#search-bar #home_search { 
display: block;
    height: 40px;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 4px;
    position: relative;
    width: 595px;}

#search-bar #home_search_input { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
    border: 1px solid #C6C6C6;
    color: #666666;
    display: inline-block;
    font-size: 12px;
    height: 40px;
    line-height: 14px;
    padding: 0 10px;
    width: 480px; }




#search-bar #home_search_submit {
	border: 1px solid #dc5653;	
    background: #fe5d62; /*fallback for non-CSS3 browsers*/
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#fe8781) to(#fe5d62)); /*old webkit*/
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(#fe8781, #fe5d62); /*new webkit*/
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(#fe8781, #fe5d62); /*gecko*/
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(#fe8781, #fe5d62); /*IE10*/
    background: -o-linear-gradient(#fe8781, #fe5d62); /*opera 11.10+*/
    background: linear-gradient(#fe8781, #fe5d62); /*future CSS3 browsers*/
    -pie-background: linear-gradient(#fe8781, #fe5d62); /*PIE*/

 repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
    border: 0 none !important;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    cursor: pointer;
    display: inline-block;
    font-size: 16px;
    font-weight: bold;
    height: 43px;
    padding: 0 10px;
    margin-left: 6px;
    width: 80px;}

Does anybody know how to tweek this code to render the same in all browsers? Freaking IE8!

Im not a newbie to CSS but I am still a bit new to hand coding and div positioning.

heres the link - http://members.cox.net/tekjock/test/

the body section I want it to be
bottom 5px
Left 5px
right 5px

I can get it to look good in firefox but IE it looks like crap. I have tried the above and it does not work.

Any suggestions
Thanks