Posted by Andy Dingley on 09/04/06 09:36

Cerebral Believer wrote:

> I have created a stylesheet in Microsoft Frontpage for a website I am
> creating. Basically I am using a number of nested <div> tags to control the
> layout of my page. What I have created displays fine in Internet Explorer,
> but not anything like how it should in Netscape or Firefox (both appear to
> render the page similarly incorrectly).

FP is crap, older versions even worse than newer.

FF is almost certainly right, IE is wrong. FP is just pandering to how
IE gets it wrong, but that's still not a good thing.

Validate your HTML and CSS with a reliable validator.

That CSS is not good style (even though it might be correct). It's
symptomatic of CSS generated by WYSIWYG tools that it over-emphasises
rigid and absolute positioning, rather than trying to provide a
flexible layout. This is the second biggest reason why _all_ current
WYSIWYG tools are inappropriate for use with CSS.

(the biggest reason is their habit of inlining styles, rather than
encouraging rational use of re-usable classes)

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