HELP!!! Cross browser issue...

Here is the link to the project I am working on for a local zine.... sixtysecondape

I'm sure some of the more advanced coders here could pick apart a thousand things wrong with my code... I am still in the process of plugging everything in. I am more of a graphic and print guy anyways.

The issues I am having are:

1. There is a slight seperation of the banner from the top table wich leaves a line. It looks fine in Firefox but IE screws it up.

2. The left table wich is seperated into 4 tables on the left side, verses the 3 on the right was done to allow the graphics to bleed over the edge. Again in firefox it looks fine, but IE repeats the image from the table above it... regardless of the fact I wrote it into the css.

I assume both problems have to do with a minor inconsistacy in my code somewhere... I am just trying to get some new eyes to look at it objectively and perhaps give me some advice.

Thanks in advance!
Hak

here is the source code...
... (pt. 1)

pt. 2...

Nice graphics.

Why not just have the whole graphic at the top as one image in one td.

Trouble is, that's soooo much code I don't really have time to look through it all and work out whats going on. Would be great to use CSS, but if thats not an option then I'd settle for a simpler layout.

You can try adding * {margin: 0; padding: 0} to your css to try and get rid of unwanted margin and padding but it could be a different issue.

I'm no expert but I've had many a problem using padding and margins in CSS. Firefox displays them in a different way to IE. You're using a table layout though, whereas I use divs, so I'm not sure if this is applicable in your case.

If you know how to do it, the best way of getting round it is to have a firefox stylesheet and an IE stylesheet. You sniff out the browser using PHP and apply the correct stylesheet using the if statement. Or just steer the hell away from using padding and margins!

Yeah, div's would be way better. The thing is, I'm going to embed a blog into all the pages so I can do updates while I'm on the road. The current architecture allows me to fill the body with as much content as I want (that sounds creepy), and the nav always stays in the same place. As you know that kind of stuff can be very tricky.

This is going to be a political magazine to raise awareness about the war and what these Chickenhawaks have been doing to our country... with some hot chicks, fat kicks and music reviews thrown in for good mesure. I just got the forums up last night... back to the grind... ugh.

Thanks everyone for the feedback, I sincerely appreciate your time. Please feel free to continue to critique how wack it is, I don't mind at all.

Success!!! Thanks.

hehe I used to live in Deep Ellum! Ahh I still go there all the time though. Truth is the crime reports are mostly bogus as DE is prime real estate and some would like nothing more than to turn it into nothing but condo's and town houses. Bastards. I disagree with the drink prices and still plenty of great food down there i.e. Angry Dog, St Petes etc.. and Adairs still has $7 pitchers although the beer is a bit soapy heh. And where else woudl you have such lovely places like Bar of Soap where you can have a $1.50 draft, play pinball and do your laundry in the same place? love it! I used to live/work in DE and I wish I still did. Closes thing to NY texas has. Although Addision is fun, Black Finn, Duke's, The Londoner.. All good all good.

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