Website Design Forum

**Robert_R** · 06-07-2006, 10:14 PM

Hey everyone!

Please go to www.lawnsbythebest.com and let me know what you see.

My website is terrible looking in Firefox. If this is the case I'm going right back to IE.

**defiantrican** · 06-07-2006, 11:47 PM

There are certain tags that are used in IE that do not work well in FF. If you use an html validator or use http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ you will be able to see what to fix in order to make it work. I would make sure that you do get it to work correctly because about 50% on internet users are now using FF.

**ADAM Web Design** · 06-08-2006, 01:02 AM

defiantrican: where did that stat come from? Even on a webmaster-specific site, it generally doesn't go beyond 35%.

Anyway, having said that, the fix may be surprisingly simple.

Under your CSS body tag, put this:

Code:

color:  #00FF00; /* or your choice of green here */

Any time you put a background-color, there should always be a color to go with it (and vice versa). It's good CSS practice.

If you don't want to explicitly define a color, put color: inherit; . Same value works for background-color .

**Green11** · 06-08-2006, 01:34 AM

This is why I love simple layouts!

Complex layouts always tend not to work in some browsers... chances are yours wont work in IE7 either

**Robert_R** · 06-08-2006, 11:27 AM

I got my problem corrected. It was a tag in the HTML.

You'll be hearing from me again in the future.

I appreciate all your help.

**LadynRed** · 06-09-2006, 10:38 AM

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Complex layouts always tend not to work in some browsers... chances are yours wont work in IE7 either

All that means is that you are not making the effort to code the site properly so it DOES work the same in all browsers. While it may not be pixel-perfectly the same, it should not break.

I would only say to the OP that the green text on black contrast is very tough to read, as is that color red in the dark gray box on the left.

**megamoose** · 06-11-2006, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by LadynRed

All that means is that you are not making the effort to code the site properly so it DOES work the same in all browsers. While it may not be pixel-perfectly the same, it should not break.

Yeah when I'm designing a website every change and addition I made, I check it in Opera, Firefox and IE, and yeah you mightn't always get it 100% the same measurements but you can get it looking the same

It just takes some coding effort!

Mark