i know there are a few on here could you cast your expert eye please….

we have a young student in whos designing it but were having a spot of trouble..

it works in firefox and IE9 but in IE8 it goes pete tong…

i can email you the link

Before we start I am far from a guru. Getting stuff to work in various browsers seems to be about 50% of web dev so good luck:) I usually run the URL through here http://validator.w3.org/ Its far from fool proof but it highlights silly typos and usually shows the area you need to work on.

cheers, seems to have sussed it but firefox is not showing borders but IE is…. i’ll gethimt o use theabove site

Get the IE developer tool bar in for a start, then get firefox installed and firebug, should help you iron out any problems 🙂

(I’m a developer not a web developer by the way and my css is well out of date so I’m not offering any REAL help as I’d be useless :))

Get the IE developer tool bar in for a start

it’s built into IE now, just hit f12. Same in Chrome

cheers, ive just shouted across the room at him, its nice having a gimp 😉

Don’t forget IE and FF have a different ‘box model’. Subtle difference but makes my life hell sometimes.

Basically in IE if you say a DIV is 100px wide, then add a border it makes the content on the div narrower. Same with padding etc.

Firefox decides your content should stay 100px wide and add the border/padding etc. on top so the blasted thing gets wider, which often blows out your layout. Or makes borders disappear as they are outside the visible area perhaps….