absolute position problem

[ChadBryant]

I have a table that I am positioning at an absolute position with the following style attribute: style="position: absolute; top: 120px; left: 290px;"

It displays correctly in IE and Safari, but in Firefox it is correct in it's top position but the left position is way way out to the right. this makes no sense to me as it is interpreting a pixel correctly in terms of the top but when it does the left position, it is like it multiplies it by 2 or 3.

Any ideas? If I need to make this dynamic so that I can make the left one thing for all non-firefox browsers but something else for Firefox, how would I do this?


Thanks in advance.

 

[tgreer]

Make sure to explicity set the "margin" and "padding" attributes for the table and any container tags (body, div).



Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com

Providing PostScript & PDF
Training, Development & Consulting

 

[ChadBryant]

Ok, the topmargin and leftmargin for the body tag are set to 0...cell spacing and cell padding for the table is 0. It must be something else...

Thanks

 

[Vragabond]

Could we see the code, or even better, a URL with your site?

 

[tgreer]

Would it be possible to post a link?




Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com

Providing PostScript & PDF
Training, Development & Consulting

 

[philote]

You should check out the DOM Inspector that comes with Firefox. I'm not sure it gets installed by default but it's extremely useful for situations like these. You can check the style attributes for all the html elements as well as the 'computed style' for these elements to see exactly how FF is rendering your page.

 

[ChadBryant]

Thanks. I finally figured it out... I had my table right after the body tag and before some ASP script. I moved it to after the asp script and it worked fine. doesn't really make much sense, but it's working.

Thanks!