Posted by Els on 03/13/07 19:29

unknownking321@googlemail.com wrote:
> On 13 Mar, 18:57, Els <els.aNOS...@tiscali.nl> wrote:
>> unknownking...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>> Can someone please tell me why my site which is in its early stage:
>>> [url]http://www.geocities.com/bhavikdhokia/newindex.htm[/url]
>>
>>> is formatted very differently when viewed in Internet Explorer and
>>> Firefox?
>>
>>> I don't want it to be like either. When viewed, before uploading it
>>> to Geocities, it looks like this:
>>> [URL=http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=websitevt1.jpg]
>>> [IMG]http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2969/websitevt1.th.jpg[/IMG][/
>>> URL]
>>
>>> and that's how I want it displayed once uploaded.
>>
>> I think you should carefully compare the code that resulted in the
>> image you posted, with the code that is uploaded to the geocities
>> server. I bet the code you have at home doesn't have "width: 536px;
>> height: 31px" set for <div id="header">. (hint: the image with the
>> word "header" in it, won't fit in the 536x31 header, as it is 137px
>> high and 710px wide)
>
> Still when viewed in Firefox, the image doesn't fit the header.
> However, when viewed in Firefox, the image is really small, smaller
> than the header.

It does that in Firefox and in IE6. It's what you tell it to do now
that you've set the height and width of the image to be 536px and
31px. What did you expect it would do then?

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