Debugging Why Stuff Works In Firefox But Not IE

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Are there any tools out there to help you debug design issues with IE6 or IE7? Every time I make something it looks great in Safari/Firefox but some weird thing is always wrong in IE6 or IE7. I've Googled around but haven't come up with much.

Thanks in advance for any help!
 


natekapi, what program are you using to design your sites? Just wondering if you are using Mozilla's Seamonkey. I've been using Microsoft Expression and have the same problem, but the other way around. My pages display perfect in IE6/7 but I have a table within a table that doesn't display correctly in Firefox. I had to go in and manually add the align center code, cause the center table displays left align in Firefox and center in IE which is what I intended. Sorry don't know a whole lot about html and maybe you are talking about scripts, so I dunno. Just wanted to share my frustration.
 
Make sure your doctype is right at the top of your html, that was my problem going between mac firefox, to Windows IE.

Example from this page:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

If you need to get a new one, just go to w3.org
 
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar for IE (duh)
Firebug for Firefox

Both can help debug layout issues.
 
I like using the IE Tab extension for Firefox that way I can be check my layout in Firefox and switch over to IE within Firefox with just a click on the toolbar.
 
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