Bad HTML?

ok, ive been cleaning up the html on a blog of a friend of mine. the page displays fine in IE but is a horror in firefox. if any of you know about the differences in how the different browsers deconde html, and might be able to help. that would be great. im not that good at html, but i could send you the progress i have made so far.

 

Java and other scripts are different in HTML for mozilla browsers and IE just so ya know.

 

post the url so we can peek at it and give you tips.

 

I'd check it over at http://validator.w3.org/ , then if it still looks bad then let us look at it.

 

I took a look at it last night. It was some CSS specifics to Mozilla (Overflow and Opacity) that are done differently in IE.

 

Java isn't a script

 

i meant java script.

 

IE is really annoying, because it supports things that other browsers don't. You can do your best to remove these parts from the scripts/HTML to make sure that you're not using any of the crappy stuff that only IE supports.

 

theres gotta be an article on the web somewhere that says the difference. I mean, there has to be a ton of people that run into the same problem.

Could you also post a link to your friends blog so we could check out the source code and see if you did anything wrong?

 

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=396001&postcount=5

 

yeah but that just validates them, i wanna know the page with the HTML on it. he hasn't posted any URLs.

 

validates jack shiz.. read my post.. I looked at the source already and offered my suggestion on how to remedy the issue with CSS. case closed.

 

Ok, sorry. Didn't see that, I was searching for a URL and so I didn't get around to reading that post.

 

Apparently..

 

thanks kodo, got your email. looks a bit different but ill see what i can do.

 

Mozilla handles CSS attributes correctly.
IE does not (especially absolute positioning).

If something displays in IE different from Mozilla, then it is most like the fault of IE's poor standards support. IE 6 isn't terribly bad, but IE 5 and 5.5 were just horrible.

 

oddly enought, it displays much better in IE