Text displays wrongly in Mozilla

[Ian McLeish]

My first web pages, made with FP2002 look great when viewed with Internet
Explorer.
The pages are designed as a table set at 80% of page width, which leaves a
plain white gap at either side in IE.
In Netscape and Mozilla (version 7.1) the text doesn't "wrap", and a scroll
bar appears at the bottom of the browser- I need to scroll left and right to
see all the text!

This only seemed to start a couple of days ago, but I don't know if I did
anything to cause it!?

Any suggestions would be greatfully received.

Ian McLeish

 

[David Berry]

Is there a URL where we could go and see what's happening? Are you using
any in-line styles on the site?

 

[jon spivey]

Hi Ian,
there's no need to use a table to centre a page - add some CSS
<style type="text/css">
body{
margin: 0 10%;
}
</style>

This will centre the page with a 10% margin eother side - the same as
putting content in an 80% centred table. If this still doesn't work as
expected in Moz can you post a URL to the offending page?

 

[JL Amerson]

Is there a site that will emulate what my site looks like in Mozilla or
Opera? I'm curious to see what it looks like but I prefer not to download
those programs. I only have a 20GB hard disk.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You should have requested a new larger HD for your birthday. <g>

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[JL Amerson]

Funny thing is that we have a 20Gb slave drive on our old Comcrap computer.
Maybe it's time to doa little salvaging.................

 

[susan]

Have you looked at www.anybrowser.com and then
www.dejavu.org?

 

[Ian McLeish]

The URL for the site is www.broadbandforbailieborough.org , please don't be
too critical!
I read jon spiveys post also, but unfortunately, he talks code, and I can
click and drag, but that is about all. Willing to learn, but.... I already
have a theme on the site, and I know nothing about css.
Cheers,

Ian

 

[Ian McLeish]

Jon, thanks for your input.
The website is www.broadbandforbailieborough.org , the reason I used a table
was I wanted to have the navigation links on the left hand side of all
pages. It looks great in IE, but useless in Netscape. I had a thought- could
it be that the background gif I chose- one of the FrontPage themes, is too
long (or wide), and netscape is therefore not displaying properly?
When I resize the browser window in IE, the text just changes position, but
remains in the correct place on the page. Netscape just increases the scroll
bar length!
Just a thought...
I read your post, but it went right over my head! I don't think I am stupid,
but this is all new to me- my first attempt at a web page. Any simple
suggestions would be gratefully received.

Ian