Dreamweaver 4

okayfine · March 4th, 2006, 04:33 PM

Hello folks,

I was wondering if anyone can tell me why upon creating a webpage using Dreamweaver 4, that the webpage appears fine in IE6 but different in Firefox?

Fine in the sense that, it looks the way I want it to look in IE6 but then after checking in Firefox it looks different.

for example, if I create a table in Dreamweaver 4 and change the table border color, the changes are reflected in IE, however in firefox, the table border color remains the same.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Imar · March 5th, 2006, 08:07 AM

Hi there,

It sounds like you're using proprietary markup that only works in Internet Explorer.

Try validating your page with the HTML validator and see what messages you get from the validator: http://validator.w3.org/

HtH,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

okayfine · March 5th, 2006, 06:23 PM

Thank you very much for the reply Imar. I created one table in Dreamweaver as a test and placed the html code in the validator. It came back with 3 errors...

1) Error Line 1 column 0: no document type declaration; implying "<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM>".
<html>

2) Error Line 8 column 42: there is no attribute "BORDERCOLOR".
<table width="50%" border="1" bordercolor="#FF0000">

3) Error Line 10 column 20: there is no attribute "BORDERCOLOR".
    <td bordercolor="#FF0000"> </td>

below is the code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<table width="50%" border="1" bordercolor="#FF0000">
  <tr>
    <td bordercolor="#FF0000"> </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Again, in IE, the table color (red) is fine. In firefox, the table color will not change from the default grey color.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!

Imar · March 6th, 2006, 03:13 AM

Hi there,

As the error message indicates, there is no such thing as BORDERCOLOR in the official HTML specs.

Try this instead:

<table style="width:50%; border: 1px solid #FF0000;">

This draws a 1px solid border around the table.

Note that this doesn't give each cell a border, as the HTML border does.

This is just a simple example, but there are many more differences that you need to be aware of to create truly cross browser web sites. It's a bit too much to explain in a single post.

I suggest you get a good book about XHTML and CSS, for example: Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS

HtH,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

okayfine · March 7th, 2006, 01:11 PM

Thanks alot for your time Imar!

amitavroy · June 26th, 2007, 02:21 AM

hey thanks man for the tip.
i was waiting to get the solution for this problem for a long time

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