Div not starting at the top of page? [Firefox]

**drhowarddrfine** · Feb 14 '08, 01:07 AM

**GloStix** · Feb 14 '08, 01:40 AM

HTML

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>James Mann - Portfolio</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
	background-color: #9cad32;
}
-->
</style></head>

<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="container">

<div id="banner">
<a href="#"></a>
</div>
<!--<div id="links">
<a href="#">Home</a>
</div>
-->

<h1>Biography</h1>
<div id="content">
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 <p> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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</div>



</div>
<div id="footer">


</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

**GloStix** · Feb 14 '08, 01:42 AM

Originally posted by drhowarddrfine

Get a quicker, more complete answer.

Okay I posted the rest (this forum needs an edit option >.>)

**crazeway** · Feb 14 '08, 02:01 AM

probably the padding on <h1>Biography </h1>. I've had this problem in Firefox before

**GloStix** · Feb 14 '08, 02:27 AM

Originally posted by crazeway

probably the padding on <h1>Biography </h1>. I've had this problem in Firefox before

I don't think so =\ It was like that before I messed around with the padding.

**crazeway** · Feb 14 '08, 03:16 AM

different browsers have different default paddings for certain elements. I like to start my css with * {margin: 0; padding: 0;} to avoid these cross-browser inconsistencies . Add this and see if it fixes the problem.

or try removing the margin-top: 3px from your h1 style

**drhowarddrfine** · Feb 14 '08, 04:15 AM

It is not a "Firefox problem" and "cross browser problems" rarely are. Modern browsers treat <html> and <body> as stylable elements so it might be the margin assigned to the body (where IE screws up and is the real source of "cross browser problems"). So that is why the universal zeroing of margin you show works.

Better:
html,body{margi n:0}

In addition, you don't show a doctype. Without a proper doctype, IE is in quirks mode and doesn't attempt to act like any modern browsers, such as Firefox.

Note: I'm going to bed and didn't test if this is the fix. If it isn't, say so and I'll look again in the morning.

**GloStix** · Feb 14 '08, 05:13 AM

Code:

html,body {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
}

Fixed!

Thank you good people :)

**jsbryant** · Jan 5 '13, 06:12 AM

RE: crazeway
different browsers have different default paddings for certain elements. I like to start my css with * {margin: 0; padding: 0;} to avoid these cross-browser inconsistencies . Add this and see if it fixes the problem.

or try removing the margin-top: 3px from your h1 style

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AHA! THANK YOU! I was trying everything and this was the only thing that worked.

Div not starting at the top of page? [Firefox]

Div not starting at the top of page? [Firefox]

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