Hi,

I am trying to make my span tags for my navigation menu align correctly in internet explorer as well as firefox. Just wondering if it's possible to adjust them for internet explorer users as wel whilest ok in firefox, IE needs the adjustmentl. I have it perfect in firefox, not IE. Maybe padding or margin adjustment would do it?

Thanks again!
-Brian

IE8 still supports conditional comments. Put in a stylesheet link with just the IE fixes. Sucks we still have to do this, but oh, well.

tim

As far as I know span tags aren't (and shouldn't be) possible to align any way. Perhaps I'm wrong but to my understanding span tags is solely used for styling, not positioning. That is, you can adjust text color and size, make bold, italic etc. but not margin, position, float etc. If you need to adjust the position of something, put it in a div, not a span.

spans are as wide as their content, so it is the difference in default font sizes.


Set

body {
      font-size: 63%;
}

Then specify ALL font sizes in ems rather than pixels (px) or points (pt) (which of course are meaningless for screen use)

Originally Posted by lizciz

As far as I know span tags aren't (and shouldn't be) possible to align any way. Perhaps I'm wrong but to my understanding span tags is solely used for styling, not positioning. That is, you can adjust text color and size, make bold, italic etc. but not margin, position, float etc. If you need to adjust the position of something, put it in a div, not a span.

You can position, float, set margins and padding etc on inline elements such as spans BUT you cannot set a width or height to them.

Just curious, why are you using span tags? You could use divs and/or unorder list to get the effect you want.