Websites are different in Firefox

L

Lawrence Beyer

My websites look how I designed them in IE. I just
downloaded Firefox on my new computer so I could
see how they look in Firefox. Take a look at
www.LarrysSigns.com and also look at my
websites you can access there. All my sites, in IE
the border is all one color, but in Firefox it is two
colors. In IE there are no lines between the cells,
but in Firefox there are lines between all the cells.
I would appreciate an explanation. I try not to use
FP features which only work in IE. I especially
can't understand how the border is two colors
in Firefox.
 
W

Windsun

You don't have any Doctype specified so all browsers go into quirks mode,
where they might do weird things.

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html


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My websites look how I designed them in IE. I just
downloaded Firefox on my new computer so I could
see how they look in Firefox. Take a look at
www.LarrysSigns.com and also look at my
websites you can access there. All my sites, in IE
the border is all one color, but in Firefox it is two
colors. In IE there are no lines between the cells,
but in Firefox there are lines between all the cells.
I would appreciate an explanation. I try not to use
FP features which only work in IE. I especially
can't understand how the border is two colors
in Firefox.
 
R

Ronx

I think the bordercolor attribute is IE only.
Change it to style="border:solid white 1px;"
Better still, place the style in a style sheet, either embedded in the
<head> section of the page or external.
Also, you need to specify colours and background colours - in my FireFox
the text is orange on grey.
 
L

Lawrence Beyer

I designed everything using Table Properties and Cell Properties.
I don't know anything about code. It looks much better in IE
with the border, than without it. Because a lot more people
use IE than Firefox, I'll just leave it like it is. Evidently you
have to use code to make it look good in both browsers.
Thanks for trying to help.

(e-mail address removed)
 
F

Funkadyleik Spynwhanker

Ok, well the short answer, it will _always_ look different on different
programs.

HTML = Hyper Text Markup Language. It's not an image format, its a set of
instructions to create a page. Those instructions can be interpreted
differently, and are by different browsers, so they do look different.

You can make compatiable and similar looking sites without knowing code,
it's just harder.

In FrontPage, there is a tool that will "grey" out tools that are not
compatible with other browsers. (Tools, Options...) Go in there and use it
to help you learn what parts dont work in other browsers.

It's also a good idea to check using at least IE and Mozilla/Firefox, and if
you can, check with a Mac computer WHILE you are developing the template.
That way you can catch things early.
 

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