how to format my website to display in all browsers

[Scott Harrington]

Im designing a website using Frontpage 2003 which i find really simple and
user friendly. However, I'vce began to design a website which all looks
hunky dory when viewed in Internet Explorer but looks totally out of shape
when viewed in either netscape or mozilla. A perfect example of what I'm
trying to explain is www.dotdesigners.co.uk the home and services page
completely stretch across the screen in netscape and mozilla but remain as
designed in ie4+. How do I format the tables so that it displays the same in
ALL browsers? Thanks in advance

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Make sure all empty cells have at least 2   in them or they will collapse as in
<td bgcolor="#808080">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>




| Im designing a website using Frontpage 2003 which i find really simple and
| user friendly. However, I'vce began to design a website which all looks
| hunky dory when viewed in Internet Explorer but looks totally out of shape
| when viewed in either netscape or mozilla. A perfect example of what I'm
| trying to explain is www.dotdesigners.co.uk the home and services page
| completely stretch across the screen in netscape and mozilla but remain as
| designed in ie4+. How do I format the tables so that it displays the same in
| ALL browsers? Thanks in advance

 

[Murray]

Stefan:

That's redundant and unnecessary. A single &nbsp; is quite sufficient to
prevent the problems with empty cells (by the way, they don't collapse, they
just don't show a background color or a border when such have been defined).

Scott:

Points are a print metric (inch based) which makes little sense on a pixel
based screen. Please use pixels, ems, ens, exs, percents, or size names to
size your fonts when doing web work.

Your table problem is likely caused by this inline CSS -

<td bgcolor="#FF9900" style="border-top: 3px solid #FFFFFF; border-bottom:
3px solid #FFFFFF" width="0">

IE is ignoring it. Netscape is not. I'm not sure why it's there in the
first place.