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Above is the address for my new site. I had it basically all set up. I use Internet Explorer. It looked fine. Then I viewed it in Netscape. in Netscape- The left navigation part is pulled apart from the white place to write in.
Can anyone tell me how to get the site in netscape to look like the one in Internet explorer please?
I had a problem where the font was huge in the white part of my page when viewed in netscape but I think I fixed that at least on my homepage by using the <small> code.
Claudia
(edited by: tedster at 6:08 pm (utc) on Mar. 20, 2002)
To make your site exactly the same in Netscape is a tricky proposition.
There are various oddities in Netscape, plus Netscape is very critical and unforgiving about bad HTML code. IE will allow missing tags and will try to intuit your meaning. Netscape will just give up.
I think the best place to start would be an HTML validator to make sure your syntax is correct and acceptable. There is a good one at www.htmlhelp.com.
Then, I would search these forums to pull up discussions about Netscape differences.
People will visit your site and view the source code and make specific recommendations, but the validator is a good place to start.
BTW - I did the same thing as you - created a nifty site in IE and when I opened it in Netscape I was in tears. Took me 2 weeks to recode so it worked in both. Yuk.
Emulating the same effect with a <div> gives not funny alignment issues.
The lesson? For compatibility, keep on the less number of markup tags that you can allow, and avoid the exotic ones like <address> if possible.
Of course, <address> has a reason of being because tags the content like an address, and more sophisticated xml browsers on the future will not catch the nature of the con
