playing with blogger xml - getting items lined up

[fairyhedgehog]

I've just redone my blog using the Blogger Minima template and making rather a lot of adjustments.

It all lines up now (for me in Firefox, I haven't dared try it in IE yet!) except when you go to a page view showing comment. The 'Post a comment' 'Newer post' and 'Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)' are not left aligned with the rest of the page. I've noticed there is the same problem with the widgets that appear under the posts, too.

I've had to add 1em padding on the left so that the text isn't hard against the edge of the white space but I can't see where to do it for those bits. Can anyone help?

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[Nathan]

You probably need to put 1em of padded on the div that is containing the entire blog area, or at least the blog widget div. I think that is what I did to fix an alignment issue on those items on my blog.

Just try adjusting the styles on the different <div>'s within the blog area and one of them will do it eventually.

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by fairyhedgehog

I've just redone my blog using the Blogger Minima template and making rather a lot of adjustments.

It all lines up now (for me in Firefox, I haven't dared try it in IE yet!)

Big mistake! - firefox is quirky and you should get it right in IE instead

people who use firefox expect sites to look funny sometimes, but IE users are unforgiving

also more people use IE than firefox so you should make the site look good for the majority

[lulhamltd]

Yeah firefox is weird!!!

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by stephen todd

Big mistake! - firefox is quirky and you should get it right in IE instead

people who use firefox expect sites to look funny sometimes, but IE users are unforgiving

also more people use IE than firefox so you should make the site look good for the majority

Actually I've found it to be the other way around. Firefox is more strict so if it looks good in Firefox it will look good in IE.

Also, you shouldn't neglect Firefox in designing your site. Out of the nearly 40000 visitors to my site here are the latest stats as far as browsers go:

Internet Explorer: 17,040
Firefox: 16,339

So as you can see both browsers have a user base that is just about equal. For every IE visitor you receive you'll probably receive a Firefox visitor as well. An Firefox is growing constantly, whereas IE is slowly getting worse and worse.

As you can tell I'm a devoted Firefox user myself.

[stephen todd]

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Internet Explorer: 17,040
Firefox: 16,339
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those are different stats to what I get - guess it depends on the type of visitor you get - can't see businesses letting employees install firefox

could be that firefox has improved - about 3 years ago it was a nightmare and even web designers with university degrees couldn't get a site to look the same in both IE and firefox



many's the time I set a font size - and it was obviously not displaying the right size in firefox - but was perfect in IE

firefox keeps going wrong on my PC - get a runtime error - something about wrong platform - and it won't work again even when I uninstall it and try to reinstall - even with a newer version

eventually I reinstall windows and install firefox - but it messes up again eventually

I mainly use maxthon now - it freezes up sometimes when I've got too many tabs open - but otherwise as good as firefox