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MSIE vs Firefox Frustrations

by tulsatech
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I just published our new sales page for my Dad's supplement and it looks good in Firefox but in IE the image of our product doesn't appear. I'm sure it's something simple I'm overlooking but I'm at a loss as to how to fix it.

If it's not too much trouble, could someone who knows more about html and how MSIE displays it enlighten me as to what I'm doing wrong?

The website I'm having trouble with is Diabetes Manager

Thanks in advance for your help and/or responses.
#firefox #frustrations #msie
  • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
    Frankly I'm surprised that website displays in any browser. Take a look at the validation. [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.diabetesmanager.net/ - W3C Markup Validator

    This is what happens when you paste stuff from MS Word into Frontpage, or use MS Word to actually generate HTML.
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  • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
    However, on second look, it seems that you have empty height and width attributes on that image. There is probably no standardized way that browsers should react to such an odd thing, so the two browsers have chosen different ways of interpreting it. Firefox assumes no default width or height, and thus displays the image at its natural proportions. IE assumes a height and width of 1, so hides the image.

    If you remove the height and width attributes altogether from the image, it will magically reappear.

    I highly recommend you discard Frontpage if you are using it, and don't use Word to paste into a WYSYWG.
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    Thanks Wayfarer, but I actually used Kompozer to create the site and although the text copy originally came from a Word document, I copy/pasted it into Notepad and then from it copy/pasted it into Kompozer. I assumed that by putting it into notepad first it would remove any of the funky MS Word formatting.
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    Never too late to learn a little coding if you don't mind sleepless nights and eating chips in front of the computer.
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    I assume you fixed this with wayfarer's suggestion of adjusting or removing the height and width attributes. I just checked it with Chrome and IE7 and the image displays.

    One thing you might want to do is increase the padding around your main text, it practically touches the border.

    Bill
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