[solved]small differences between my test server and isp

[tchboy]

Hi
I am running xampp on my windows machine for development purposes and my isp is running apache on a linux box.

I have come accross some small differences in how the my webpage behaves on the two platforms.

The main difference is a drop down menu I have, on my development machine the drop down items were appearing behind the div beneath it on the page(this isn't what I wanted). But on the ISP server the drop down worked fine........

after a couple of items the drop down stops dropping down properly on my development machine but no such problem on the ISP server......

what could cause this??

I ask because the site when up and running properly will be hosted somewhere else completly.

any suggestions????

thanks
tchboy

[Altrea]

Hi tchboy,

This is very common a browser compatibility mode issue.
Microsoft Internet Explorer does have different rendering and compatibility modes and can change them wether the website is a local website or an internet website.
Try a different browser and verify that this issue persists or is gone.

best wishes,
Altrea

[tchboy]

I have been testing in firefox I didn't double check in IE.

I shall test in IE, what else can I do the dropdown issue I don't understand as I have just copied blocks of code.

thanks

[Altrea]

You could test with Firefox extension Firebug where the differences in the code are.

But at the end this is a browser rendering issue i think.

[tchboy]

Rebooted the machine and all sorted how weird!!!

thanks f