Posted by D_W on 07/27/07 10:19

On 27 Juli, 18:07, Andy Dingley <ding...@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> On 27 Jul, 08:59, D_W <daniel_westerberg_1...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a .net page that uses css styles and frames.
>
> There are not ".NET pages". .NET is sourcecode for a server which then
> makes a plain old HTML page from it. You can (and should) fix layout
> problems by working with the HTML and CSS alone. Worry about the .NET
> you need to make them with later.
>
> You're also not using CSS, or at least if you are, you're also using a
> great deal of HTML 3.2 presentational markup in there too. No wonder
> it's hard to see what's going on.
>
> * Lose the XHTML, just use HTML 4.01 Strict
>
> * Lose the transitional doctype, just use HTML 4.01 Strict
>
> * Lose the HTML 3.2 presentational markup, just use HTML 4.01 Strict
>
> * Lose the frames. You've got a powerful server to use here, do it
> with SSI instead.
>
> * Lose the Dreamweaver boilerplate JavaScript. You don't need it.
>
> * Re-code your HTML as minimal semantic HTML, just the content and no
> presentation. Apply CSS (and probably a few extra <div>, classes etc.)
> as necessary to get the look right.
>
> * Consider replacing the central product list table with a single
> linear list of <div> instead, using float:left;. This re-sizes better
> for varying browser window widths. In most cases it looks just like a
> table, it's just a bit more flexible.
>
> If you work hard, you _might_ get your current HTML 3.2 code to work.
> However it will be hard to do this, you'll produce an inflexible
> design at the end, and you're likely to get no help locally as the
> clueful people have already worked on more than enough HTML 3.2 and
> don't want to see any more.

All that would be fine, but all I want to do is make the table 100% of
the frame like it shows in IE and not a few pixels bigger like in
firefox.
There must be some basic error that makes the page render "taller" in
firefox than in IE.

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