ie/netscape

[bill gee]

I'm having a great deal of trouble with Netscape (7.1).

I have created a website primarily with the Tahoma font.
It displays great in IE (6.0) but Netscape displays it in
a completely different font and size (Usually in a serif
font that looks like Times Roman - 1 size smaller). Not
only that but in some cases, it displays it correctly.
The Web is has an external style sheet (CSS) that
specifies {font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica; } for
every style.

the site can be found at: bill.goldschein.name

 

[Murray]

Change this -

BODY {
FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica;
LETTER-SPACING: 1px
}

to this -

BODY, td, p {
FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica;
LETTER-SPACING: 1px
}

and see what happens.

Also, you probably want to add a background color to that body style, e.g.,

body { background-color:white; }
BODY, td, p {
FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica;
LETTER-SPACING: 1px
}

since only IE uses white as the default.

 

[bill gee]

Absolutely no change at all, as far as I can see.

I am new to CSS though I have been using Word stle sheets
for years. I can see they are absolutely essential to
good web building.
I create styles in an external style sheet: what is the
td, p for and can they only be added manually? To create
styles, I click the style icon on the style toolbar which
is automatically displayed when I open the css file.
Then I either create or modify a user-defined style or
modify an html tag. The body tag modification, in this
case, was an attempt to change the default typeface and
use the font family concept to stop this netscape problem
(which it didn't). As far as I remember, I did not apply
the tag to any paragraph and is not available in the
style drop down list on the formatting toolbar.
I am confounded!

Any other suggestions?