[Solved] Firefox and Divs...

hi,
why dont you specify your problem, instead of just telling us , you have one div on the other???

Cant help you with ur description...

mihir.

well, the problem is that on Firefox divs inside divs the way I've put them arent displayed well; all the positioning of layers is broken, its just a disaster. (compare http://www.guessit.org/profile.php?user=16 on Opera/IE/Safari and Firefox to see the difference)

Here's my current code:

Being each numeric 'id' one that specifies only its width.
e.g. id=120 => width:120px

that code is just for the top part of the profile, not the details.

the style (applied by ) doesn't seem to affect firefox unless I put it each time under every single div tag.
This code works perfectly under Safari, Opera and IE5+. My code was easy to tweak to make it work under IE, but Firefox just kills me..

Thanks a lot in advance,

Cheers!

Will.

hi, First and foremost, you have not read the sticky, and when i validated your page i didnt find a !Doctype in your html. And that might be the one and only for it now functioning properly.

It is also called DTD... and if you check the sticky or http://www.csscreator.com/node/4374 , you will find why it is necessary to do so...

mihir

So the lesson learned is don't be so hasty to place blame on poor old Firefox

fyi FF is the web dev browser of choice due to the fact that it handles and renders CSS closest to the specs, but all this is predicated on rendering in Standards mode!

If you're on a Mac where is Camino amongst browsers of note, it's certainly better than Safari.

The thing is I had already tried to put a doctype, and it only makes some of my fonts smaller.
Doctype didnt fix the layout issue I still have.
And if Safari and Opera display it correctly it means there is surely something wrong with Firefox.
Furthermore, IE, which always displays things faulty displays this perfectly, so it's 100% FF's fault.

There is just something wrong with FF and Divs...

Some (actual) help would be appreciated.

guillermo, please understand that you MUST render in Standards mode and that people are trying to help you so less of the cheeky remarks.

The Doctype didn't fix the problems likely due to your lack of CSS knowledge, you cannot use numeric characters to begin an ID with.

You must include that DTD and stop blaming FF in this rather annoying way as I said earlier FF IS NOT TO BLAME

Never believe the display that you see in IE this is rule 1 for CSS coders, Firefox is the web dev browser due to the fact that it DOES display correctly but it also follows rules more closely than other browsers.

Hugo.

Oh, I didnt know I couldnt use numbers for ids. Maybe that is the problem. I'll try right away.
And concerning the cheeky remarks, sorry its just that the frustration of having this not working in firefox over many months has made me utterly hate firefox and everything related to it. I can't bear to the the silly fox anymore.
Well, I'll see if this fixes things. I'll keep you posted.

Many thanks, and sorry again :/

No problem

But honestly Firefox is not silly, I promise you it's really rather good!

V.bad on memory leaking though.

wow, it was that bloody thing!
Don't you think then that FF is a bit too strict code wise?

I can't belive it got fixed up
Thanks a lot, my opinion of FF has gotten much better. I will no longer trash it as I used to ..

Thanks again, Hugo

I'll apply the styling now.

Perfect now
Thanks!

It's not too strict it just attempts to follow the specifications, which are there to enable a common set of standards so that these cross browser problems don't exist

If Firefox wasn't strict then nobody would write proper code.