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Friday, March 04, 2005

Sometimes Gecko is too helpful

I just spent ages trying to work out why some material I was working on was working fine in Firefox and not in IE. I suspected the CSS for most of the time as I was using floats and IE as we all know is not too hot with these.

It turned out I had not closed a div tag properly eg. <div class="foo <p> Gecko was fixing the error for me and rendering the page as it should have been displayed. IE was creating a mess. Which was correct of course. I spent ages looking at the CSS and tried three methods of laying out the page.

Finally I suspected the html and downloaded and installed the excellent HTMLTidy firefox extension which instantly flagged up the error and it was a moments work to slap my forehead, fix it and shout D'oh!

It would be nice if there was a developer mode for Gecko which turned off the automagic code fixing and in an ideal world flagged up what was wrong in blinking red text ;)

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