just a question

[brianblanda]

Is there a way to load up different pages according the the browser that is used?

my situation is that i have been making my website and viewing it through mozilla firefox. When i looked at my site through IE, it looked different. (ex. some of my CSS commands didnt work) So i would like to run a seperate page depending on the browser being used.

any help would be great

[GoldNetX]

There are various ways, and they can be found easily with google. But I would very much so attempt disuade you from using it for the purpose above. You can usually find someway else to code around CSS problems with resorting to multiple pages.

[tamlin]

I agree totally with GoldNetX - you should write one piece of code and write it properly rather than try to "code round" different browsers. You could write different blocks of code for Firefox and IE, but what if your visitors are using Opera or Safari or even something like Lynx? Are you going to attempt to write separate code blocks for every possible browser?

[allstar]

Well all you have to do is stick to codes that work in both browsers or have your site coded for the two main broswers.

[tamlin]

Originally Posted by brianblanda

some of my CSS commands didnt work

Any chance of seeing the code that doesn't work? Maybe we can fix it.

[metsatöll]

I agree with all above msg-s, good webmaster could be able to make one code which would work for all browsers.

Answer of your question is

<script language="JavaScript" 
type="text/JavaScript">
if(navigator.appName == "WebTV")
{
 window.location = "WebTVHome.html"
}
 if(navigator.appName == "Netscape")
{
 window.location = "NetscapeHome.html"
}
 if(navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer")
{
 window.location = "ExplorerHome.html"
}
 window.location == "Other.html"
</script>

[zlatiborac]

Metsatoll, what if one person have IE 4 and other IE 5 or IE6? Your code does not give him any solution
You need to have a script (server side) that will ask server to identify yours client browser. End after this step you have to redirect user (he will not know that ) to use another CSS file. This is the only correct way but this asks for a little bit of programing.

[metsatöll]

@zlatiborac, I totaly agree with the all things you said. Actually I would prefer to use one CSS which would work fine with all browsers and to use different CSS files just as different themes for the site

I didnt check if the javascript works fine or not, I took it from .........

But it works fine with ie5.5+

[zlatiborac]

No, your script is OK but it would not determine what version of browser is on the client comp
I'll agree with you that the best way is to put everything in one CSS file, do the hacks in it and call additional CSS files if and when needed.
It's not so hard to determine what browser is installed on client comp using PHP, just google a little bit if you need that. It is by the far the best solution but it also need PHP skills

[Neil_8_24_93]

I have been having the same problem....my CSS commands work properly in one browser and then in another its all messed up.

[metsatöll]

CSS codes works very different between mozilla, safari, opera, internet explorer. If you already know CSS codes well, then you should also study CSS-Hacks aswell.

For example,
width : 100px
* width : 110px
first value will be accepted by firefox in css and second one (* width) will be ignored but internet explorer will see * sign and it will use that one and IE would ignore width

[Alex McKee]

Start with validating your document. Use modern flavours of HTML, use a doctype etc.

Hacking is not recommended. Use Conditional Comments to feed IE a different/additional stylesheet. The other browsers commonly in use are all well within the accepted margin for error and therefore just focus on getting the main styleshee to work with standards compliant methods.

[metsatöll]

Originally Posted by Alex McKee

Hacking is not recommended. Use Conditional Comments to feed IE a different/additional stylesheet.

?? I didnt get it, since when and why css hacks are not recomendded?

[Alex McKee]

Originally Posted by metsatöll

?? I didnt get it, since when and why css hacks are not recomendded?

When Microsoft developed IE7 they fixed most of the CSS bugs that allow the hacks to work. So pages that rely on hacks will fail in IE7. The use of conditional comments was officially requested by Microsoft's IE team and I agree with them.

[zlatiborac]

I agree with you but what I'm going to do with cca. 70% of user who are still on IE 6, 5.5, 5 and Good forbid IE4???