By timdp on

I built a site in drupal/Garland. I made some minor format edits to some of the views with the view templates just to change some font sizes. Everything looked good in firefox. Before I launched, I checked it in IE and it looked terrible with font sizes all over the place (I had never looked at it in IE so I don't know if it was ever good in IE). Anyhow, I took out the view theme template edits - this fixed the worst issues, but still much of the text was now in Times instead of Verdana (only in IE - it was fine in firefox). Since then I have spent days, reinstalling drupal, rebuilding the views etc. but to no avail - still looks good in firefox, bad in IE. I have looked at the stylesheets; IE is inheriting the basic body style from somewhere and firefox is getting verdana from another sheet - but I'm not a css expert, and with at least 13 stylesheets involved, I can't figure out what to edit, even if that were a good idea. One example; on one page the blocks (views) in the RH column are fine - in Verdana - until I add back the content block (which is another view) - then the blocks on the right revert to Times New Roman.... I cannot figure this out.

I have reinstalled drupal and the themes, but the problem appears as soon as I import the database, so I presume the problem emanates from the data, so now I am loooking at rebuilding the website. I have lost a week; this would lose me anther one. Any suggestions gratefully received.

(Can't show the site at the moment because I am waiting on the hosting service to raise the php limit so I can reinstall - they have done this 5 times now this week, but for some reason they can't explain, the limit goes back to 8M within about an hour - so I have to ask and wait every time....)

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devenderdagar commented

Hi Tim

This is very common problem across popular different browsers. Its nothing to do with Drupal or PHP configuration. It css problem only. I think you need css guy's help or if you can handle it your own then go some browser compatible stuffs. It will help you sure. I can suggest you about your css stuff if I can see your site.

Thanks

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timdp commented

OK, I should have asked earlier. I will try and get the site back up. This is a different question, but perhaps you can answer anyway - I have now reinstalled Drupal twice, with the aim of starting again, but the login it gives me has no admin rights, so every page I try to access to set up the site says "you are not authorized to access this page" As you can see I am getting in a complete mess ..... but if I can set it up again, i know I can reimport the data and get back to where I was, and then (probably about 3 hours from now) I would love to ask you to look at the rendering problems and perhaps point me to the css that needs fixing. If you can't answer the login problem, I'll put a separate post.

thanks again