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1. manyee
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi

   My pages look different on internet explorer versus firefox. On internet explorer, there is an extra border on the right hand side. However, this doesn't exist on firefox. Can someone help me with this and tell me how to standardise between the two.

   Many thanks

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Validate your site - usually it will show you the IE problems

3. manyee
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Wow I came up with 24 errors.
   Thanks for the advice
   I will work through them slowly.

4. manyee
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi there.
   I have a question.

   The validator tells me which line and which column the error it is in.

   for example it says:
   "Line 79, Column 47: document type does not allow..."

   So how can I identify which sheet this problem is in, eg, the main template, sidebar, etc, as I am not sure how to tell which line or column it is.

   Thanks (sorry i'm really new to wordpress).

5. Saurus
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   If you are validating the CSS on your site - the results will refer to the styles.css file. If you are validating the markup - they will usually refer to the main page template, depending on how your theme identifies its file structure.

6. reflexionstudios
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hit the "Show Source" checkbox and then click on the various line #'s. It'll jump down the where the error is. From here you can look at what other HTML is surrounding it and (possibly) determine which WP page that's in.

7. manyee
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks for the info.
   That was really helpful.

   All my errors relate to my posts, not the styling.

   Therefore I still dont know why my pages look different in IE versus mozilla. I still have an extra border when I open it through IE. However, php and css sheets have all passed the validation.

   Thanks

8. reflexionstudios
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Validating your site won't make all of your IE problems go away, unfortunately (believe me, I wish this was the case). W3C is a set of common standards for web developing, but for whatever reason, IE continually decides to be a non-standards compliant browser. IE7 and IE8 are slowly but surely getting on the right track (the track that Mozilla, Opera, and Safari are on). Don't get me started on IE6 and IE5. I have wasted countless days trying to get these to render properly.

   Technically IE6 is deprecated so I almost prefer purposely not developing for it because of how convoluted it becomes. If your site validates, I say screw it, good enough! :)

9. manyee
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   ok thanks
   i'll live with it for now.

   am having font problems! so not going to worry about an extra margin for now.

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