Design advice for Firefox.

[Delicious_Jess]

I’m a Firefox user and it’s high on my sites most used browser list so I’m trying to make my refreshed look more FF friendly. 

I know there’s a way of combating this but for the life of me I can’t find it. How do I stop (some versions of) FF from picking up on my transparent table borders and showing them up? IE gives me no jip but FF’s trademark funkyness is starting to annoy me. I’m now using Dreamweaver MX 2004 by the way.

Any suggestions all you web designers, cos I’m stumped  :blush: Thanks in advance peeps.

smt

[chandiespanties]

Hey Jess 🙂

Been away…. did you get it sorted?

C x

[Delicious_Jess]

Hey Chands my honey,

Did you enjoy your time off hun?

No I’m stilll scratching my head over it. If I want a border around a table but no cells showing I’ve taken to making a table for the outside with its borders left on and another table inside that one(for the cells) with the borders off. Problem with that is that Firefox adds strange spaces between the tables and makes them all gappy! I’m substituting one fault with another  :rolleyes: Wish Firefox would sort it  🙁

smt

[chandiespanties]

Ouch! Poor FireFox! FireFox is very standards compliant which is why you’re maybe getting funny results. The other browsers may be “letting you get away with it” 🙂

Two options…. If you want to continue doing it that way have you tried specifying border=”0″ in the code rather than just switching it off in the editor?

Better still, do you have any CSS experience? (Style Sheets)
Much slicker way of doing it….

All you need to do is define a class for the borders like this….
.mypurpleborder { border: solid 1px #8c54b7 }

….and apply it to any tables you want to. It will only put a border around the table. Not the individual cells.

I don’t use DreamWeaver so I’m not sure how to apply it in the “point and shoot” part of the program, although I’m sure it’s easy enough. But the table code would end up looking like this :
< table class="mypurpleborder" "blahblahblah">

I had a good break thanks! Nice cock at the French doors each morning 🙂 Unfortunately it had feathers, a big red comb on it’s head, and was begging for toast. And it pooped on the patio!? :laugh:

[Delicious_Jess]

I’ve just asked Mozilla and it’s given me a list of wrongs. I know IE is overly forgiving but jeeze, FF is just overly mean! Still I do adore it and haven’t used IE for ages.

Ok, armed with my new info I’ll have a play with things. Thank you Chandie. The only time I have anything to do with CSS is when I push the grey X button to close it, but I’m game for a challenge!

smt

[chandiespanties]

CSS is way cool. Once you start you’ll never go back. Now that the browsers are starting to get more standards compliant you can even build a whole site with it and actually get it to work! No more tables! Lol! Sorry, I’m such a geek  :laugh:

Anyway, I’m sure you’ll work it out. You’re a smart cookie 🙂

Let me know if you need any help!

C x

[Delicious_Jess]

Thank you Chandie. Congrats on your glowing Jane’s review gorgeous.

Mmmm, no tables. Sounds like heaven.  :cheer: Tables are a pain. I opened my CSS page…. Wow! No buttons, nothing, just a big white page crying out for content! I turned around and left  :cheer:

I’ve been having a think. Is CSS the only way to get standards compliant sites? I’ll get to grips with it eventually but Isn’t there a site builder that doesn’t create non compliant script? I understood why MS Frontpage liked IE and not FF, but Dreamweaver? Or am I getting this all wrong?

My head hurts! Table borders and funky spacing’s not so bad….builds charactor. At least that’s what I’m telling myself anyway  :cheer:

smt

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