BROWSER COMPATABILITY Safari/Firefox/IE

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My main issue is with Browser compatibility! In Safari /Firefox its seems to be ok bar a few links, but once in IE it seems to fall apart?

link to my site currently:

http://www.chriswalmsley.co.uk/clients/nano/

I usually build and place everything into a structured table/frame that items can be placed in and therefore are constrained within that area - relative to its dimensions.

However is this old fashioned, I heard web is moving away from tables etc and thus I am trying to build this with a practice of placing the items in place on the layout 1024x768

See Screen shot!

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6787/nanofreewaylayoutpg2.png

As you’ll notice the NAV HTML text box’s at the top are situated slightly above where they will actually be visible on the web, once published they then sit (Safari/Firefox) in the correct place!

Why is this, is it simply down to browser configuration?

But once viewed in IE it interprets the freeway layout as you see on the screen shot, thus all the text sits above where it should be - do you have a viable solution i.E FUDGE! ha

Possibly placing those items in a table (NAV boxs etc) within a DIV/table (1024x768)?

This is also true where ever this method has also been applied, I just want to get it correct before I go any further and things start to get more complex.

Thanx

Worm

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Sometime around 31/3/08 (at 08:27 -0400) Mr worm said:

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6787/nanofreewaylayoutpg2.png

As you’ll notice the NAV HTML text box’s at the top are situated
slightly above where they will actually be visible on the web, once
published they then sit (Safari/Firefox) in the correct place!

By checking the source of your web page I can see that those links
are styled using header (h) tag-based styles. You’ll find that you
will get a bit of height ‘padding’ by default with this kind of
thing, and it is likely to vary between browsers. You could try
locking it down by specifying an absolute Space Before and Space
After in the Freeway style. Try setting values there in px, for
example 4px, and seeing how that controls things.

once viewed in IE it interprets the freeway layout as you see on the
screen shot, thus all the text sits above where it should be - do
you have a viable solution i.E FUDGE! ha

In fact, it sits even further above that space. Have you tried
grouping the items together? The whole set of graphics and HTML boxes
that make up the nav bar - see how that works. If it is a pain
getting to a PC to check, try Moved - that
works very well.

k

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