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gg5000 Posts: 48 Joined: 12/3/2003 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	Display issues with Firefox vs. IE - 12/22/2005 14:47:39 Hello folks, I'm having an issue with Firefox displaying differently than IE but I can't figure out how to correct the problem. Two different issues: One is the align tag for embeded objects. Here you'll see one of the pages in question where IE displays it centered (correctly) and Firefox displays it left aligned. I tried many things but I can't get Firefox to display the object in the center. And the other issue is with underlined links on Firefox. What's the best way to make text links display on Firefox without the underline? I used the STYLE="TEXT-DECORATION: NONE tag for each hyperlink and it works beautifully on IE, but again, Firefox does display the links underlined. All your help is very much appreciated as always! Thanks guys.

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RE: Display issues with Firefox vs. IE - 12/22/2005 17:57:15

Try something like:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>9-11</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#E9E9E9">

<div style="width: 100%; text-align: center;"
<embed allowScriptAccess="never" src="http://artisforthepeople.com/9_11.mov" autostart=true width="242" height="187">
</div>


</body>

</html>

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coreybryant Posts: 2494 Joined: 3/17/2002 From: Castle Rock CO USA Status: offline	RE: Display issues with Firefox vs. IE - 12/22/2005 18:00:02 quote: ORIGINAL: gg5000 And the other issue is with underlined links on Firefox. What's the best way to make text links display on Firefox without the underline? I used the STYLE="TEXT-DECORATION: NONE tag for each hyperlink and it works beautifully on IE, but again, Firefox does display the links underlined. Can you provide more of the source? Keep in mind that it should be lower case and to use a DOCTYPE. Also make sure that they are in order if you are using all the classes _____________________________ Corey R. Bryant Merchant Accounts \| Toll Free Numbers \| Expression Web Blog (in reply to gg5000)


gg5000 Posts: 48 Joined: 12/3/2003 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	RE: Display issues with Firefox vs. IE - 12/22/2005 18:18:00 Hey thanks for the reply Corey, I used the DIV tab that you gave me, but it's doing the same thing. It has no problem doing the align to the left or the right, but not center. Do you know of a CSS tag that can be used for this? Any ideas about the underlined links? Thank you so much! (in reply to coreybryant)


gg5000 Posts: 48 Joined: 12/3/2003 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	RE: Display issues with Firefox vs. IE - 12/22/2005 18:24:19 Corey, Thank you so much for those resources... those pages will have the answers I'm looking for. I really appreciate your help! Have a very prosperous New Year! (in reply to gg5000)


coreybryant Posts: 2494 Joined: 3/17/2002 From: Castle Rock CO USA Status: offline	RE: Display issues with Firefox vs. IE - 12/22/2005 18:27:54 Thank you. Just curious does this link work for you - on my Firefox browser, it is centered. Hopefully it is on yours as well? :) _____________________________ Corey R. Bryant Merchant Accounts \| Toll Free Numbers \| Expression Web Blog (in reply to gg5000)


gg5000 Posts: 48 Joined: 12/3/2003 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	RE: Display issues with Firefox vs. IE - 12/22/2005 19:45:23 Corey, Yes it does look correct on mine as well... I'll use that div tag as you have it there. It is definitely working correctly. By the way, what does the DOCTYPE tag really do??? Thanks again for everything! (in reply to coreybryant)


coreybryant Posts: 2494 Joined: 3/17/2002 From: Castle Rock CO USA Status: offline	RE: Display issues with Firefox vs. IE - 12/22/2005 19:56:04 It helps to tell the browser what HTML / CSS you are using and how to parse the HTML on the browser (basically). More information" Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE _____________________________ Corey R. Bryant Merchant Accounts \| Toll Free Numbers \| Expression Web Blog (in reply to gg5000)


derfla Posts: 12 Joined: 12/27/2005 Status: offline	RE: Display issues with Firefox vs. IE - 2/21/2006 12:48:12 quote: One is the align tag for embeded objects. Here you'll see one of the pages in question where IE displays it centered (correctly) and Firefox displays it left aligned. I tried many things but I can't get Firefox to display the object in the center. I'm having a similar problem at the bottom of this page: http://derfla.tv/paintings.htm I know this has already been answered in this post but I'm still not sure what I should do. thanks for any help (in reply to gg5000)

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RE: Display issues with Firefox vs. IE - 2/21/2006 13:59:07

It's this line that seems to be causing the problem:

<table border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" id="table9" cellpadding="2" width="100">

The width of the cell is specified as "100", but 100 whats? IE by some small miracle is getting it right in rendering the page, but the standards compliant Firefox is thinking, "100 what? It doesn't say. It must be pixels!"

At a guess, it's correctly centering everything within the cell, but because there are no instructions as to the placement of the table (unless I missed it somewhere), it's guessing at 100 pixels wide and just left aligning it. Change it to 100% and it centres correctly.

<table border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" id="table9" cellpadding="2" width="100%">

Edit: the above advice is good though; put in a doctype and validate your code with the W3C's validator for your best chance of your site rendering properly in all browsers.

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derfla Posts: 12 Joined: 12/27/2005 Status: offline	RE: Display issues with Firefox vs. IE - 2/21/2006 15:11:17 Thank you I tried messing with what you said and couldn't figure it out. However when you said 100% it got me thinking. So using frontpage, I went to the table properties and specified the width as 100%. (before i had the specify width box unchecked) It fixed it! (in reply to gg5000)


tfawbush Posts: 1 Joined: 6/18/2006 Status: offline	RE: Display issues with Firefox vs. IE - 6/18/2006 21:05:57 This looks like a pretty old post, but I wanted to thank coreybryant for the centering code he provided. It worked like a charm. I was trying to center a QuickTime movie and it centered fine in all other web browsers except Firefox. But now it is centered and works great. http://www.williamdeans.com Thanks, Tom Fawbush (in reply to gg5000)


jaybee Posts: 14191 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: Display issues with Firefox vs. IE - 6/18/2006 21:35:11 Ahh now you see, we can be pretty useful on here. Suggest you bookmark us for future use. _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to tfawbush)