Website compatibility

zul · #1 (**permalink**) 06-20-2009, 01:35 PM

Hi
I am making one website by using Dreamweaver, while checking my website cross browser compatibility
it is working good on Firefox but in ie 8 is showing text in different font and on menu bar there is white color on it.

Thanks for your help

Alvin47 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-26-2009, 08:26 AM

Fixing cross browser problems is a career in itself, zul. And without looking at your code I don't think anyone can help you; there are too many variables.

Sometimes Dreamweaver can insert "extra" code/tags. Keep them to a minimum and you'll not only find it easier to debug cross broswer problems, you might even prevent them.

Here's a suggestion. See if there are things like...

Code:

<font face=...><span style="font-family: ...;">

Current thinking is that using css is preferred, but that's a matter of opinion. Certainly one doesn't need the FONT tag if css is being used. Keep it simple by using either the FONT tag or css, but not both.

zul · #3 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 08:59 AM

hi
thanks for your reply
my html css and spry menu codes are as below

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>only dream</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body class="twoColFixLtHdr">

<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
<div id="sidebar1">
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a href="#">Home </a> </li>
<li class="MenuBarItemHover"><a href="#">Photos</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Videos</a> </li>
<li><a href="#">About</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="mainContent">
<h1> Main Content </h1>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
<br class="clearfloat" />
<div id="footer">
<p>Footer</p>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>

CSS

@charset "utf-8";
body {
font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #666666;
margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
padding: 0;
text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
color: #000000;
background-image: url(images/plainbgrnd.jpg);
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #container {
width: 780px; /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
background: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
border: 2px solid #000000;
text-align: left;
border-color: #B7008C;
background-color: #F65FC0;
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #header {
padding: 0px 10px 0 20px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */
background-image: url(images/header.jpg);
background-color: #ffffff;
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #header h1 {
margin: 0; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
padding: 10px 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
background-color: #FFFFFF;
border: 90px;
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #sidebar1 {
float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
width: auto; /* the actual width of this div, in standards-compliant browsers, or standards mode in Internet Explorer will include the padding and border in addition to the width */
background: #EBEBEB; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin-top: 5px;
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #mainContent {
margin: 1px 0 0 180px; /* the left margin on this div element creates the column down the left side of the page - no matter how much content the sidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can remove this margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the #sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends. */
padding: 0 20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
background-color: #F67DC0;
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #footer {
padding: 0 10px 0 20px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
background:#DDDDDD;
}
.twoColFixLtHdr #footer p {
margin: 0; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
padding: 10px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
}
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
float: right;
margin-left: 8px;
}
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
float: left;
margin-right: 8px;
}
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
clear:both;
height:0;
font-size: 1px;
line-height: 0px;
}

Spry Menu

@charset "UTF-8";

/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - Revision: Spry Preview Release 1.4 */

/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */

/************************************************** *****************************

LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order

************************************************** *****************************/

/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
cursor: default;
width: auto;
}
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */
ul.MenuBarActive
{
z-index: auto;
overflow: inherit;
}
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
width: 10.5em;
float: none;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
border-bottom: solid;
border-left: solid;
border-right: solid;
border-top: solid;
border-bottom-color: #F67DC0;
border-left-color: #F67DC0;
border-bottom-width: thin;
border-left-width: thick;
border-right-width: thick;
border-right-color: #F67DC0;
border-top-width: thin;
border-top-color: #F67DC0;
}
/* Submenus should appear below their parent (top: 0) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
z-index: 1020;
cursor: default;
width: 8.2em;
position: fixed;
left: -1000em;
}
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
{
left: auto;
}
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
{
width: 8.2em;
}
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
{
position: absolute;
margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
}
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
{
left: auto;
top: 0;
}

/************************************************** *****************************

DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts

************************************************** *****************************/

/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
{
border: 1px solid #CCC;
}
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
{
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #F65FC0;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
}
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
{
background-color: #CC0099;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
{
background-color: #F65FC0;
color: #FFF;
}

/************************************************** *****************************

SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item

************************************************** *****************************/

/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
{
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDown.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
}
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
{
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRight.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
}
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
{
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
}
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
{
background-image: url(SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 95% 50%;
}

/************************************************** *****************************

BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert

************************************************** *****************************/

/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe
{
position: absolute;
z-index: 1010;
}
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
@media screen, projection
{
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE
{
display: inline;
f\loat: left;
background: #FFF;
}
}

thanks for your help

Alvin47 · #4 (**permalink**) 07-01-2009, 03:50 PM

Well, zul, if I had the time I'd try and figure this out. But you've got all the pieces here for anyone who does has the time or wants to hone their debugging skills. Sorry it can't be me anytime soon.

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