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**Created:** [September 17, 2004, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/compatible-html-coding-for-ie-and-firefox/64537 "2004-09-17T08:44:28Z")\
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**Author:**  [@burns](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/burns)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2004, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/compatible-html-coding-for-ie-and-firefox/64537/1 "2004-09-17T08:44:28Z")
Hi,
I’m having trouble designing a site to display properly in both IE and Firefox.
The company that i work for has a policy that we make sure that sites display properly in IE first and foremost.
However, as hard as i try i cannot get the current site that i am working on to display properly in both IE and Firefox. Their isn’t major problems just lining things up etc.
I generally use tables for laying out the site.
i was wondering if anyone knows of a list of incompatiblities between the 2 browsers? or have i fallen into the trap of lazy coding in IE?
any links or tools that could help me would be gratly appreciated.
many thanks
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/compatible-html-coding-for-ie-and-firefox/64537/2 "2004-09-18T14:18:12Z")
hmm, i’ve encountered one issue
firefox does not display the attribute _bgcolor_
u have to declare a CSS class to get the webpage to render the background color
otherwise it just displays white
firefox forces CSS implementation, i think
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/compatible-html-coding-for-ie-and-firefox/64537/3 "2004-09-19T03:17:28Z")
a google search will reveal your answer. Also if the requirement is IE. Why shoot for FF? It is still hovering around 1% of the market share. Maybe have a browser sniffer redirect the user to a page that tells them to use IE. Or have a version which dgrades garcefully. There are many ways around this. But search first.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/compatible-html-coding-for-ie-and-firefox/64537/4 "2004-09-19T03:33:10Z")
firefox isn’t near 1% anymore 😉
according to cnet: 18 were using gecko based… I can’t find any more detail than that
edit: that’s the records to [http://www.w3schools.com/](http://www.w3schools.com/)
from: [http://news.com.com/Week+in+review+Firefox+on+the+hunt/2009-1083\_3-5370629.html?tag=nefd.top](http://news.com.com/Week+in+review+Firefox+on+the+hunt/2009-1083_3-5370629.html?tag=nefd.top)
I can’t remember, but I don’t think bgcolor is correct, css is definately the best way to do it, and tables are wacko 😜
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/compatible-html-coding-for-ie-and-firefox/64537/5 "2004-09-22T07:54:56Z")
Well you could atleast show an example of what wrong. Tell we can assess the situation. You shouldnt use tables, divs more but its ok when your lazy.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/compatible-html-coding-for-ie-and-firefox/64537/6 "2004-09-22T20:29:55Z")
> [@bombingpixels](#):
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> firefox isn’t near 1% anymore 😉
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> according to cnet: 18 were using gecko based… I can’t find any more detail than that
Do you know how many gecko based browsers there are? Gecko based browser is a general term. Take a look at all the gecko based browsers (keep in mind NS is gecko based as well)
[http://www.mozilla.org/university/HOF.html](http://www.mozilla.org/university/HOF.html)
The youth of America today :h: :to:
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/compatible-html-coding-for-ie-and-firefox/64537/7 "2004-09-22T22:58:41Z")
funny to also note see how many fixes have been issued since firefox was dloaded? Which means it is not the Second Coming if you know what I mean. Wait till mozilla gains ground everyone is going to start bashing it…lol.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/compatible-html-coding-for-ie-and-firefox/64537/8 "2004-09-25T18:51:51Z")
> [@glove](#):
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> hmm, i’ve encountered one issue
> firefox does not display the attribute _bgcolor_
> u have to declare a CSS class to get the webpage to render the background color
> otherwise it just displays white
> firefox forces CSS implementation, i think
You shouldn’t be coding HTML with attributes like that now-a-days.
Friefox is ahead of it’s time, while most designers are moving on Firefox is already there.
CSS should be a key part of any webpage on the net now.
Even IE, bloody microsoft…