Page Centered In Ie But Not Firefox

[queenpictoria]

Hello.

 

I have installed Firefox on my computer and am studying it.

I have an auction on eBay. It is a small webpage I build and upload-- strictly HTML.

 

When I look at it on Firefox, many of the tables are off center.

When I look at it on IE, it is just fine.

 

Here is the link.

ht*p://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120014100219

 

Does anybody know why the html is off center on Firefox, and is centered fine on Internet Explorer.

Maybe Firefox is more picky about code..??? >>????

 

Any feedback would be appreciated.

 

Regards,

queenpictoria

[stevevan]

It's because Micro$oft adheres to it's own "standards" and Firefox adheres to W3C standards. From a development point, it is a royal pain in the you-know-where to make a site look the same on IE and FF. By using CSS, and a bit of playing, I've found that one can get things looking pretty close. But there will still be subtle differences.

 

You might want to download Opera and compare how your site looks using that. (I use all three...IE, FF, and Opera.)

[TCH-JimE]

Hello,

 

I believe in many places your HTML is not truely correct. M$ seems to be able to cope with a mismash of HTML, firefox displays it more truely. For instance, the following code:

 

><table>
<tr>
<div align="center"><td width="1000" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">
<div align="center"><font face="times new roman, Arial" color="#FFFF00" size="6"><i><b><u><i>PLEASE CHECK FOR MORE DETAIL PICTURES BELOW.</i></u></b></i>
</font>
<hr width="50%" size="3" color="#ff0000">
<br>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#00FF33" size="6"><i><b>Top Retail Value $5,400.00 (used)</font></b></i>

 

As you can see, your opening up a DIV tag inside a <TR> tag and in some instances not closing the DIV tag again.

 

JimE

[stevevan]

You can use this page to validate your HTML. That should help quite a bit.

[queenpictoria]

Hello,

 

I believe in many places your HTML is not truely correct. M$ seems to be able to cope with a mismash of HTML, firefox displays it more truely. For instance, the following code:

 

><table>
<tr>
<div align="center"><td width="1000" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">
<div align="center"><font face="times new roman, Arial" color="#FFFF00" size="6"><i><b><u><i>PLEASE CHECK FOR MORE DETAIL PICTURES BELOW.</i></u></b></i>
</font>
<hr width="50%" size="3" color="#ff0000">
<br>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#00FF33" size="6"><i><b>Top Retail Value $5,400.00 (used)</font></b></i>

 

As you can see, your opening up a DIV tag inside a <TR> tag and in some instances not closing the DIV tag again.

 

JimE

 

 

Thank you Jim,

I want to get better at the code, and am glad that Firefox has higher standards.

Regards,

queenpictoria

[TCH-JimE]

It takes time April, I still code today and then go back a few days later and its like "what came into me to put that tag in there????"

 

Firefox has much better standards then IE, but if your programming for both, it pays to have both installed on your computer

 

JimE