CSS Problem

[bbbear]

Good day, I need to consult the expertise out there if they have any clue of the CSS problem in Netscape.

I have a CSS definition on top of a script and below somewhere, I want to have my own style ( font size ), but it doesn't work on Netscape.

Here's the outline of code:
......
<style type="text/css">
<!--
td { font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt}
-->
</style>
.....
......
<td>
<font color="#007373" size="+3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">
HELLO!!!!
</font>
</td>
.......
.......

The font doens't go bigger on Netscape but it's alright with IE or other browsers. Is there any way that I can get around with it ?

Thank you in advance for the helps.

[[deleted]]

And how does this relate to php?

[bbbear]

I'm really sorry that it doesn't relate to PHP and that's why I put it in General Help list. If it's not allow to post anything that's non-PHP related then I'll know it now. Thank you.

[terje-s]

Go to the article section on PHPBuilder, I think there is an article explaining some of this, written by Tim Perdue if I'm not all wrong.

While we're at it (Vincent, don't be angry 😉, I'd like to ask another question about netscape and CSS wich has been bothering me for some time now. If you set the font-color for BODY, Netscape "looses" this style after you use a table (the text becomes black). The only workaround I have so far, is a <div class=..> after the table, but this tends to be alot to keep track of, and generally messes up my coding style. Any suggestions on this?

By the way, I don't think the general forum is a bad place to post questions like this; I've seen far worse!

[[deleted]]

Not angry, just trying to stop people from posting random subject questions here :-)

Do you mean the text in the table becomes black or the text after the table?

[bbbear]

Just want to say thank you to you, Terje. You've regained my confidence to post question here. Actually I'm all new to CSS. Anyway, I'll try my best to catch up with it.

I have not come across the problem as you are. However, I have the problem of setting custom style instead of using CSS. For eg.

Assume that I have a style definition on top of a script. If I do this, <class="bodyText">ABCD</class>, it works for Netscape. If I do this, <font size="3">ABCD</font>, it won't work for my case. It just stay as the style sheet has defined. I'm still trying to work around with it. If i've got something done, will update you, k ?

[terje-s]

The text after the table becomes black, and for all netscape versions i have tried (from 3 to 4.71 - havn't bothered to download ns6 yet), the problem persists. I've searched for information about it, and actually I found a solution somewhere.. Only it was very little specific, and no demonstration code =/

[[deleted]]

And the solution was....? :-)

[hawleyj]

Netscape, in their rush to defeat MSIE, decided they would try to apply their own interpretations of CSS standards, and W3C pretty much told them ah, don't go away mad, just...go away. The layer is classic of this.

In any Netscape up to but not including NS6, you will need to define a class with the appropriate formatting and then add that class to every td, ol, ul, etc. that is not a paragraph, or is a paragraph that exists within another tag, or that just doesn't come out right.

Add this to your style:

.navigator { font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt}

and then in the body:

<td class="navigator"></td>

It is a pain in the behind but necessary to properly implement CSS for cross browser compatibility.

HTH,

Jim Hawley