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Q: Firefox html display problem (vs. IE) ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   0 Comments )
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Subject: Firefox html display problem (vs. IE)
Category: Computers > Internet
Asked by: davidk2-ga
List Price: $30.00
Posted: 18 Jan 2005 18:23 PST
Expires: 17 Feb 2005 18:23 PST
Question ID: 459592
I'm a web designer with some code knowledge, but I'm stumped. I have
pages created in Adobe GoLive, and they all align properly in IE, but
in Firefox (v 1.0 on Win XP) one whole set of pages misalign. I cannot
find any difference in the code of the pages that would account for
this, but there must be some small thing that IE doesn't pay attention
to but FireFox does. Can anybody help?

Pages that are correctly aligned:
http://www.truckerhuss.com/docs/firm/why_choose.html
http://www.truckerhuss.com/docs/firm/attorneys.html
http://www.truckerhuss.com/docs/firm/opportunities.html
etc (the whole section)

Pages that are NOT correctly aligned (in FireFox):
http://www.truckerhuss.com/docs/practice/Retirement_Plans.html
http://www.truckerhuss.com/docs/practice/ESOPs.html
http://www.truckerhuss.com/docs/practice/Taft_Hartley_Plans.html
etc (the whole section).

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
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Subject: Re: Firefox html display problem (vs. IE)
Answered By: palitoy-ga on 19 Jan 2005 02:31 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hello davidk2-ga

This is a curious problem which I initially thought must be due to the
format of the table but it is actually something much easier to fix
than that although it took a lot longer to troubleshoot!

Each of the pages that are broken in Firefox have the same menu down
the side, this is our first clue to fixing the problem.  The solution
is that one of these items in the menu is causing the table to shift
over to the left hand side of the page rather than be displayed in the
center.  This is usually caused by the item being too large for the
table cell.

To solve the problem, in the code for each of the pages that does not work change:

Multi-Employer/Taft-Hartley Plans

to:

Multi-Employer / Taft-Hartley Plans

Note the extra spaces around the slash character - these cause the
table to wrap the text at the new space rather than at the end of
"Multi-Employer/Taft-Hartley" which is too long a phrase for the size
of the cell.

If you need any further help on this please ask for clarification and
I will do my best to respond swiftly.
davidk2-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars
Perfect! Thanks so much! It's amazing that the spacing made such a
difference (ie, much more space than just the text involved; somehow
it seemed to throw off the whole table?)

Great work! Thank you!
David

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