Sidebar too wide in Firefox 3.5.6

  • Hi,

    Can anybody help with this one, please? I am totally new to WP and not very knowledgeable about HTML, CSS, etc. I have been giving it my best shot, though.

    Anyway, I have selected a theme, started my first posting and viewed the partially finished results in IE 8 and Firefox 3.5.6.

    In IE everything seems fine, but in Firefox the right-hand sidebar extends beyond the page width. So, instead of appearing on the same white background as the rest of the page, the right sidebar is shoved over onto the black background.

    It’s as if the text in the body of the page is too wide and not controlled in Firefox. However, I can alter the text width for IE from the css stylesheet.

    I have experimented with the page width in the css style sheet and found that matters improve in Firefox if I set the page width to 100%, rather than set any specific pixel width.

    If I set the width to 110%, then all of the sidebar is included in the page, but then the page is much wider than I want it to be, and for my screen I have to use the horizontal scroll bar on the browser to view it all.

    So, here is the question. What file is the page width controlled from? Why can I not control the body text width from the style sheet in Firefox? How can I get the text narrower for Firefox?

    Any help, much appreciated.

    Paul

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  • When you use percentages, then all is referenced to the internal stylesheet of the browser itself (which might and will be different for each and every browser in the world, since this can be customized).

    If you want to have your site look the same on every browser, you’re better off using fixed widths.

    Also: box models are different for IE, so if you used margins/paddings this could effect the look as well.

    Could you post a link to your site?

    Peter

    Thread Starter paulp51d

    (@paulp51d)

    Peter,

    Thanks for the reply. I think that you may be right and its a margin padding problem – still testing, but things are moving in the right direction. Thanks for the help.

    Paul

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