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[GOLFnTours]

Hi All,
I hope someone out here would help as I do not know what to do now and whether
the two questions below are related.

1. Firefox Not Responding to CSS?
I used an existing php page, changed the code by using only <div> (done away with <tables>)
and CSS. It appeared OK on IE but on FF, the text flowed all over.

2. DocType
I never had DTD on all my existing pages. For the same page in 1. above, I added the DTD
Transitional. The result was like for FFox in 1., text flowed all over on both IE and FFox.

I read this:
"If you are adding a DTD to a page that has already been written, you are going to
have some problems. That's a fact."
on addedbytes dot com. It didn't go on to say what 'that fact' was or how one could fix this.

Are the two questions related? And, what should I do next?
Many thanks

[Randy]

You can only have one declared DTD in a page. That's why if you have more than one you're going to run into problems.

As to the Firefox CSS issues, you're better off to design and test in FF, then make a special css version for IE's various flavors if necessary. FF will be correct markup 99 times out of 100. IE is more forgiving of mistakes, but also more flakey in how it responds to certain things.

It's much easier to design and test in FF though. That code should work in basically every other browser. If you need to make any small tweaks for IE, you can use conditionals to load another .css file or other css rules for any specific IE flavor you need to support.