Firefox, why can't I position text over images and have it stay like that?

Question

I play neopets, and am in charge of the "guild layout" but everytime I got to do it... it looks good in IE but not in FF! Are there any tricks to making it look good in both FF and IE?

I play neopets, and am in charge of the "guild layout" but everytime I got to do it... it looks good in IE but not in FF! Are there any tricks to making it look good in both FF and IE?

I'm using tables for the text piece, and just placing the image code after my table is finished.

my text goes here

In IE this works, in FireFox it shows the table, then down below, the image. Is there a code for the table to put the image in the background maybe? Or prehaps a different way of doing this alltogether?

Answer 1

Using CSS it would look something like this:

.myimage {
position: absolute;
top:100px;
left:100px;
}
.mytextbox {
position:absolute;
top:100px;
left:100px;
}

and then assign your images and text boxes like so:

Answer 2

I'm a professional web developer. Firefox is a far and away more CSS standards compliant than IE. IE just has added support for their own propietary functionality like the marquee (which no rational developer would code).

As to your problem, you can also use a z-index in the CSS properties to put the text object on a layer above the image. Here is an example:

my_text {
z-index: 2;
position: absolute;
left:100px;
top:150px;
}

You must use absolute positioning on elements that you want to use the z-index property.

Answer 3

JTTech,
What are you talking about, firefox has far better support for css than IE does and IE is alot older. I can layout a page in FF in just a few minutes but then have to spend an hour debugging it for IE. 7.0 is still lacking in some areas, and with the current release of FF2.0 it just gets better and better all the time.

Answer 4

Hi,

Firefox still hasn't caught on the IE rules and they don't support alot of HTML and CSS developer language. When FF 1st came out it absolutely sucked, but they are getting better now. Only time will tell when they will start supporting the same stuff IE supports. I'm still complaining about to FF. It just keeps on scrolling. Any sorry I don't know any tricks to make it look good.

2006-12-01 10:20:30 · answer #4 · answered by JTTech 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋

Professional web developers know that Firefox is the browser that sets the standard; Internet Explorer is actually the one that breaks the rules. Build using Firefox, and THEN check and tweak it in IE, not the other way around.

2006-12-01 10:51:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anissa T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋

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Answer 5

Professional web developers know that Firefox is the browser that sets the standard; Internet Explorer is actually the one that breaks the rules. Build using Firefox, and THEN check and tweak it in IE, not the other way around.