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[eatsrainbows]

Okay, so I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but anyways..
I made a layout for my user look-up, and I was on Safari at the time. Everything looked fine. Then I went on google chrome to look at it and the colors were off (I have a picture in the bottom-right with a background, then put a background color in the code), the bg of the image and the page didnt match. So I switched the color and it matched on google chrome, but no longer matched on Safari. Does anyone know whats going on, and any way to fix this problem?
Thank you

[Neoquest]

Browsers display things differently, it's not really a problem, just code it for the browser you think that most people will be using.

[Ladida]

Stuff like this has wasted SO much of my time! Trying to code cross-browser seems to be a punishment that should be reserved for the fiery pits of Hell. My advice, choose a browser, stick to it (just don't choose IE). Normally I make sure my site looks fine in Chrome and Firefox, and sometimes I check Safari. But if it looks fine in one browser, and not in another, it's not you, it's the browser. Usually when that happens, I just knock out that bit of code altogether and try to find another way of getting it done to work in both.

[eatsrainbows]

okay, great, thank you! Yeah, there are so many issues with getting layouts to work on multiple browsers. I've found the best thing to do is save the files as PNG so I can leave the background space transparent, then add a bg color. That makes it work, except I've heard that PNG files dont show up in IE or something like that? I dont know though, I dont have IE. I'll just take your advice and not worry about it