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Shadowvox · 13-10-2006, 11:29

One of the things I've started doing recently when creating new templates is adding the wildcard tag and giving it a padding and margin of 0.

Code:

* {
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
}

Both IE and Firefox (and Safari and Opera etc etc etc) handle their inherent paddings and margins differently. For instance, the LI tag might have a padding of 4 in IE and a padding of 2 in Firefox. Adding the wildcard kinda sets everything to a default and then you can go to each element and give it padding/margins to your desire.

Thats just my way around the 'works in IE not in firefox or vice-versa' issues. I'm sure there are many others

13-10-2006, 11:29	#2 (permalink)
Shadowvox Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 6	One of the things I've started doing recently when creating new templates is adding the wildcard tag and giving it a padding and margin of 0. Code: * { margin:0; padding:0; } Both IE and Firefox (and Safari and Opera etc etc etc) handle their inherent paddings and margins differently. For instance, the LI tag might have a padding of 4 in IE and a padding of 2 in Firefox. Adding the wildcard kinda sets everything to a default and then you can go to each element and give it padding/margins to your desire. Thats just my way around the 'works in IE not in firefox or vice-versa' issues. I'm sure there are many others