CSS Forum

**Bexi** · 03:56 PM

Ok, so im not that great at coding sites or anything but i need some help. On IE my site looks perfectly fine. But on FireFox it looks awful! The text is all bold and the <h3> dont show up!
I put it through a validator and it came up with 40+ mistakes. Do you think some of these mistakes may be the reason? (I havnt validated it though!!)

The site is http://bexski.com

**LadynRed** · 01-30-2009, 04:25 PM

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On IE my site looks perfectly fine. But on FireFox it looks awful!

That's what happens when you build only for IE! Better to learn to make it right in Firefox first, then kick IE into submission as needed - you'll save yourself a lot of hair-pulling. As usual, IE typically gets things wrong - the bane of web designers.

I can't get to your site from here (blocked) but here's some general things to check:

1 - make sure you have a proper DOCTYPE on every page
2 - VALIDATE your code - YES it makes a difference
3 - VALIDATE your CSS - provided you did it right and used CSS, then the validator can point out errors.

How is the <h3> specified do you have it stuck inside some other tag, like a <a> ??
If all your text is bold, then that means you have failed to close the tag that created the bold in the first place.

**Truly** · 01-30-2009, 05:06 PM

Thats one lesson you have taught me well

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Although I have no problems with IE 7 and thats the browser I use for my own daily use. All the IE browsers before that suck though.

**LadynRed** · 02-01-2009, 11:57 AM

No wonder it doesn't work right - No doctype, style information is in the WRONG PLACE (belongs in the <head>). You have layout code OUTSIDE the <body> (it must be INSIDE the <body> tags !). Then you have all that ugly deprecated stuff, like <center> tags.
Time to learn HTML and how to put a page together properly.

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<HTML><HEAD>
<LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="/css.css" TYPE="text/css">
<TITLE>Bexski.com - New site of Bexi</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>

<style type="text/css">
body, html, div, font, p, td {
font-family: Tahoma;
font-size: 7pt;
line-height: 7pt;
color: #606060;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}