How can I achieve a consistent layout in all browsers?

Asked 2009-03-04T17:52:40.657

I'm near ending the repetitive alarms at my little learning project. It's still full of bugs, but as it is a weekend project I'm correcting them slowly. My problem is inconsistency of layout across browsers.

At the moment, I'm trying to improve the "My Alarms" box after login (Just don't try to hack my website, it's still very unstable).

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What kind of tricks, hacks, tips, etc. can you give me to ensure cross-browser layout compatibility?

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Design and test against FireFox...

Then make the few changes needed for working in IE.

I'm an IE guy, but this drives me crazy when I have it looking good in IE and then Firefox gets it right/wrong. I understand Firefox is closer to standards, but IE makes good assumptions... so

ARGH! )

answered 2009-03-04T17:56:26.907

Code to a standards-compliant browser first, then use conditional stylesheets to fix the issues in various versions of IE. Most other problems will be minor, it's IE that generally requires the most effort to force it to match up.

answered 2009-03-04T17:57:46.980

How can I achieve a consistent layout in all browsers?

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