Alan K Baker wrote: > I'm sorry, I should have said that I hadn't got round to testing in Firefox > yet. I only tested in IE7 for now. I tend to try to get it right in one > browser first, then tweak it later for the others and yes, the float:left > *does* make a difference in other browsers. > > Thanks for the 'fix'. It certainly makes it all stand to attention and > salute. :-) > > You're right about the <h3>s, they don't work properly. This appears to be > because the form is laid out in a strange fashion and try as I may, I can't > make anything stay inline after the form input fields. I have come up with a > really foul method of twin negative margins that will make the <h3>s do what > I want, but I'm far from happy about the method. It's just plain wrong, and > I'm not proud of it as a fix. >
> Hi Alan According to these statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Firefox is used by about 42% of the population with IE7 and IE6 combined making up 51.7% of usage with IE7 just under 27%. I think these stats might only refer to those that access that site. Maybe FF is the predominant browser amongst web folk? Also, just because a page displays in IE7 it doesn't guarantee it will display well in IE6 - apart from css differences the transparent png problem kept a few people busy for a while. It's fixed in IE7. I'm not saying that we shouldn't make sites cross-browser compatible or should ignore any specific browser - in fact I believe the opposite. If I have a layout problem occurring in any browser, I first validate the markup and css using http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ and http://validator.w3.org/ . That finds any bugs fairly quickly for me :) Then I check again in at least FF, IE7 and Opera. Then I read the code to check that things are where I still think they should be. Sometimes I tweak a bit to see if that fixes the display problem. If all else fails, I either ask here and learn something or google and read. I use Linux and Windows here so prefer to make sure all displays in FF well first because that is cross-platform. I do try to avoid browser-specific tweaks because I like to be standards compliant - even if the interpretation of those standards differs. I so far have found that Firefox displays most standard markup and styling okay - collapsing margins excepted of course. Thanks to people here I have another tweak to use. This isn't going to help you in your current problem though. Regards Lesley ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
