FF ---> IE
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- Jaline0
Thanks for all the help. I'm actually just making them JPG images, instead of having them transparent in the code. So that the transparency will be fake, but you wouldn't you able to tell the difference in the final design.
- Crouwel0
lol @ flowbee
- Jaline0
How do you add that to just the background? I can't figure out how to put the background opacity within a background tag, within a main tag.
- winter0
have you tried a dotted blue/white gif (export index/white transp)? it'll look sorta transp.
- i_monk0
IE can go to hell and take its users with it. There, I said it.
- spiralstarez0
BTW - gif won't work. I gif is either transparent or opaque, but not variable opacity.
You should be able to use the pngfix script here
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bob…
but it only works in IE5.5 plus. But I say screw anyone who would still use 5.0.
Second, if you are designing for web standards it's better to start in Mozilla. Mozilla follows standard rules, so if you follow them too then everything will work.
It's IE that nothing works consistently for, but workarounds have been sorted for all the major probs.
Plus if you are designing for web standards mozilla your design is more future proof as Microsoft is forced to slowly adopt standards.
- Mick0
As much as ie may suck, it's still 80+ percent of your audience.
- Hello-Sexy0
im a little disapointed you didnt use my script :) but that would be a pretty easy code for both ie and ff (with transparency) if you were willing to use some non validating css.
- winter0
run your code through TopStyle3 or PSPad (this prog is free) and apply the "Tidy Check". If you work through all the errors and warnings they MUST show almost identical. beware of frames, divs and css.
- -sputnik-0
are you using html? xhtml and css? what doctype?
- gabriel20
what is not working in IE? almost all display differences can be worked out between the two browsers
- e-pill0
i use IE but then again i still use a G3 with os 8.6
whats the link?
- winter0
oops, i did not read through all the posts. I guess you fixed it by now. Nice stuff btw.
- -sputnik-0
here's some doctype info btw:
http://www.alistapart.com/articl…
really depends on how your site's build, and if you're using web standards etc.
- spiralstarez0
'beware of frames divs and css'
there's nothing wrong with divs and css at all, they are what you should use, but properly.
- e-pill0
since i am all innocent to the web...what is a 'web standard'?
- Jaline0
This is an example of the script I'm using:
http://www.mudcorporation.com/co…
The backgrounds are transparent in FF but not in IE, and I need to make them transparent.
I think this is a n00b question, haha.
- winter0
of course, sprialstarez.
i meant that's where trouble usually happens with me, but as i type this i'm sure it looks like a very egoccentric remark. sorry. not intended.
- Jaline0
and by background, I mean the blue tabs that slide down.
- -sputnik-0
http://www.zeldman.com/dwws/ - this will explain it better than i can here.
zeldman's "designing w/web standards" is the best book if you want to get started on xhtml/css, and learning to design using standards.