Design problem

dove — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:18:38 +0000

Thanks for all your advice I will try it out. Back to the drawing board!

Busy — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:36:10 +0000

you can get the same effect as in IE for NS and others by using one table to hold your layout (not a seperate one for each bit) and nest this table in two others with the middle one having a white background (which shows as the cell borders), the first table has a cellspacing of 1, second table has cellpadding or 10 in this case and the third cellspacing of 1, nesting this way is quite exceptable

doing this way would cut down with coding which in turn would speed up your load time

btw, do you realise you've doubled up all your meta tags? this could be seen by search engines as spaming.

Brooke — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:24:29 +0000

All I see is that the borders are white in ie and look like the default in netscape. To fix:
instad of having borders, make the borders thin cells and then put a little square ofthe same color in. Make the cell backround the same color as the square. That way it appears that you have borders and they show up in both brwsers.

Make sense?

Brooke

Rayna — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:06:22 +0000

The only differences I see between my view in IE 5.5 and NS 4.7 are the table borders and the text size.

Netscape 4.X does not compute border color in tables that is why the borders look different in NS. The only way to get the same border effect in NS 4.x is to use nesting tables which I don't reall recommend.

You also haven't set a font size so NS and IE are displaying them at their default size. font size="X" is what you need for it to display similar in both browsers. Keep in mind that every browser displays font size a little different. NS tends to render 8 pt (font size="1") text almost completely illegible on some screens.

If you would like more control of your font color and size I would recommend reading up on CSS.