Positing drop down menu in different browsers

ZildjianKX · Post by **ZildjianKX** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 2:17 am

Even when I have the menu positioned to a certain allignment, it still is different in each browser, especially in Netscape 4.7 for mac. Is there a way to position the drop down menu so it stays in the absolute same place no matter which browser you use?

Post by **Andy** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 9:30 am

This could be to do with browser margins.

The developers of the browsers decided that it would be a good idea to have different margin sizes so that anyone positioning objects in the browser using absolute pixel positioning would appear different.

The best way around this is to set the margins to zero.

This should do the trick

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<BODY  topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">

-- Andy[/b]

ZildjianKX · Post by **ZildjianKX** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 9:48 pm

Thanks for the reply

Changing the margins seems to work in all browsers except Netscape 4.7... would you happen to know how to get it to work in Netscape? Tx

ZildjianKX · Post by **ZildjianKX** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 10:25 pm

Actually, my real problem is that when you set the margins in netscape to zero, they don't match the zero MSIE margins... and the Netscape 4.7 PC and Mac versions don't match... help! LoL

68impala · Post by **68impala** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 9:25 pm

hey ZildjianKX,

add this to your css block or include:

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body,div,span {margin:0px; padding:0px;}

or add this to your body tag:

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<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

if you are going to support all browsers do both I guess.