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1. seocc
   Member

   The form I am working with looks totally fine in Firefox but in IE8 everything gets a lot bigger. Please help me figure this out.

   http://stevendouglas.com/staging/

   http://stevendouglas.com/staging/steven-ie.png
   http://stevendouglas.com/staging/steven-firefox.png

   Posted 14 years ago #

2. Willy
   Member

   I see you don't use a doctype, it could be due to just this alone.

   Have a look at the results of the w3c html validator and the w3c css validator.

   The html validator will show a lot less errors once you set the doctype.

   Fix those things first and then check your form again.

   Posted 14 years ago #
3. 

   yuniar

   You might also want to try changing the font size of your form.
   Edit the CSS code, search for this:

   #main_body  form ul
   {
   	font-size:100%;
   	list-style-type:none;
   	margin:0;
   	padding:0;
   	width:100%;
   }

   change it to become:

   #main_body  form ul
   {
   	font-size:75%;
   	list-style-type:none;
   	margin:0;
   	padding:0;
   	width:100%;
   }

   then refresh your browser to see it.

   ---

   MachForm Founder

   Posted 14 years ago #

4. seocc
   Member

   Willy, thanks for pointing that out. That miraculously made a lot of things look better.

   Yuniar, adding the font-size:75% that you suggested now makes IE fit within the form's background, but it shrinks firefox as well and now that looks too tiny. Is there a way I can specify an exact font size rather than using a percentage? Will this make it uniform through both browsers?

   Edit>> Nevermind! I set it to "font-size:12px" and that seems to be a happy medium. It's a LITTLE bit too big in IE but it still fits into the form's background box. I'll just do some adjustments to the padding. Thanks a lot guys.

   Posted 14 years ago #

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