Internet Explorer disrepecting indention

By tawebworks on 19 Dec 2008 at 16:49 UTC

Is there a fix for the fact that IE ignores the subsequent line indention on li tags? Formatting is perfect in Firefox and Safari.

Comments

and who doesn't love IE

Screenack commented 19 December 2008 at 18:05

You didn't mention which version...

However, cross-browser css is oodles of fun. You should have:

Firebug and
IEDeveloperToolbar

in your arsenal for debugging such joy. IE diverges, ever so subtly, from the W3C spec on CSS, although I'm told that IE8 finally "gets it"

Firebug can show you css inheritance (a common gotcha) and IE with div box rendering makes living with the ugly beast a little more livable.

Thank you for this.

tawebworks commented 22 December 2008 at 18:38

I installed Firebug, but IEDeveloper Toolbar is not for Mac. So can't work with that one. Meanwhile, I found an article that may have helped me out. I'm crossing my fingers that I have it fixed. Will know when my client follows up with me.

Blind-folded debugging

Screenack commented 22 December 2008 at 18:53

I missed your response. Unless you can see your code changes in real-time, you're causing yourself much delay. You can run IE on Mac a number of ways with software like vmware or Sun's virtualmachine. Here's a great website to help you better understand the chasm: http://www.quirksmode.org/

I'd love to be wrong, but li differences are just the beginning. I could be wrong but I'm skeptical of how YUI will help, and it is a resource bear. Regardless, I wish you the best in resolving your question.