Resolved Firefox 3 behaviour in XP and Vista

Currently, I am working on a page using some CSS styling.

The code works as intended on IE, Opera and Chrome. It works correctly on Firefox on an XP box, but shows an inconsistency on a Vista box.

I have resolved the issue by some rearrangement of code, but this inconsistency is something new to me. One of the offending' parts of the code seemed to be related to a 'select' box, but all of the underlying code worked well in tables. The problem only occurred after converting the display to use div tags rather than the 'table', 'tr' , 'td' structure.



Thanks for any input.

 

Agreed. I am (more than) aware of browser inconsistencies, but I had never come across an inconsistency apparently related to the OS/browser combination before.

Fully aware that tables are deprecated and that's the reason I am rebuilding an 'old style' page that has been in use for much too long, as a part of upgrading the whole site.

It is, to say the least, an 'interesting' exercise to restyle using CSS, but of course the results and the future upgradeability are worth the effort.

 

The issue only affected Firefox, as the heading implied. Both boxes have v3.0.11


One box = XP + IE7 + Ffx 3
One box = Vista +IE7 +Ffx 3 + Opera + Chrome


The only 'corrupted' display was on Vista + Ffx3

All of the others behaved consistently, within the usual issues of differing levels of compliance.