Cross browser issues, part 2

[ADAM Web Design]

Working on a concept for myself:

http://216.89.218.233/sandbox/indexnew.html

And I've run into the usual FireFox issues with just abuot everything. In IE 6, it looks fine (other than an issue where, if the font size is shrunk, it does something really weird but that doesn't concern me right now.)

In FireFox, the layout is so bastardized that I don't even know where to begin looking. I get the feeling it's something simple, but I've been trying for an hour and I don't see it.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

[Faglork]

Looks like a severe case of divitis ... ;-)
... but looks certainly cool.

Have you tried to use a less complex design, just strip it down to your basic layout and working your way up?

Since you code in XHTML, I would
- use the STRICT variant
- code for FF, debug for IE

In my experience, a valid XHTML STRICT page which works in FF works almost equally well in IE6 and needs minor adjustments for IE5 (depending on complexity).

hth,
Alex

[ADAM Web Design]

This is actually the second try at it, but I think I'm going to have to come up with a third (I was trying to avoid that, but it doesn't seem to want to happen.)

It's really not that complex a layout per se. Most of the code is actually in the two divs for the top 5 menus.

[ADAM Web Design]

Update: I redid it from scratch (sort of) and faglork, I applied your suggestion in my own unique way...for the first time, I had both browser windows open at once and went through the whole thing step by step. Took me about an hour, but I think it turned out worth it (I uploaded the result so you could see it.)

Isn't it amazing how one general piece of advice can lead to a tangent that can solve a major problem?

Thanks, dude.