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  • Gian
    #1

    div block size different in IE Firefox ?!?

    Hi,

    I'm trying to use DIV instead of tables for positioning objects on the
    page.
    It was great till I realized that IE sizes DIVs differently from
    Firefox.
    Please see example at:
    404 - Page not found
    http://www.polidora.com/test.html


    The sidebar should be 200px wide, but Firefox is making that larger.

    What am I missing ?
    I'm going crazy...

    thanks for your time,
    -GianLuca

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    • Arne
      #2
      Re: div block size different in IE Firefox ?!?

      Once upon a time *Gian* wrote:
      [color=blue]
      > Hi,
      >
      > I'm trying to use DIV instead of tables for positioning objects on the
      > page.
      > It was great till I realized that IE sizes DIVs differently from
      > Firefox.
      > Please see example at:
      > http://www.polidora.com/test.html
      >
      > The sidebar should be 200px wide, but Firefox is making that larger.
      >
      > What am I missing ?
      > I'm going crazy...[/color]

      "The requested URL /test.html was not found on this server."

      Do you have a full Doctype declaration on top of the page source?

      E.g.
      <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

      With a missing doctype IE render the page in Quirks Mode. And among
      other effects, that gives the result for width that you describe.

      --
      /Arne

      Now ignoring all Google Groups posters who don't quote
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        • Gian
          #3
          Re: div block size different in IE Firefox ?!?

          Arne,
          thanks for your kind reply.
          I posted the example just a couple of minutes after my post.
          You should see it know, and yes, there is a full Doctype declaration.
          The different div size is very apparent.
          The image is 600px, and the DIV should be 200px.
          -Gian

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            • Knud Gert Ellentoft
              #4
              Re: div block size different in IE Firefox ?!?

              Gian skrev:
              [color=blue]
              >You should see it know, and yes, there is a full Doctype declaration.[/color]

              No, there are not.

              You have
              <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
              IE will go in quirk mode with this.

              Use
              <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
              "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
              or the one, that Arne had in his answer.

              Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE!
              http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/
              You’ve done everything right, but your site is breaking in the latest browsers. A faulty DOCTYPE is likely to blame. This essential ALA article will provide you with DOCTYPEs that work, enabl…

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                • Gian
                  #5
                  Re: div block size different in IE Firefox ?!?

                  I'm really sorry, but didn't you -we- write the very same declaration
                  ?!

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                    • Gian
                      #6
                      Re: div block size different in IE Firefox ?!?

                      Ok. Arne was right, and *his* declaration does produce the same output
                      on IE/FF.
                      Thanks.
                      Thanks you both for your kind help.
                      -Gian

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                        • Arne
                          #7
                          Re: div block size different in IE Firefox ?!?

                          Once upon a time *Gian* wrote:
                          [color=blue]
                          > Arne,
                          > thanks for your kind reply.
                          > I posted the example just a couple of minutes after my post.
                          > You should see it know, and yes, there is a full Doctype declaration.
                          > The different div size is very apparent.
                          > The image is 600px, and the DIV should be 200px.[/color]

                          <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

                          That's what you have, but that's not a *full* doctype since the link to
                          the *.dtd file is missing.

                          BTW, please notice the link in my sig about quoting the post's you
                          respond to.

                          As many others, I normaly ignore posters who don't quote (or top post),
                          so this is an exeption in case you are new on usenet and I like to give
                          newbies a fair chance. Posting proberly according to usenet standards,
                          will give you more responses in the future.

                          --
                          /Arne

                          Now ignoring all Google Groups posters who don't quote
                          * From Google: http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/

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