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When I view the site in Windows then most of the site, like the top text, right contact details, nav text and welcome text appear lower than they do on the mac. Mac browsers show the CSS as it should be. Please help me out...
Mac screenshot
Windows screenshot
HTML
<body>
<div id="wholepage">
<header>
<div id="nav_top">
<nav>
<h1 class="slogan">Steel & Fabrication Specialists</h1>
</nav>
</div>
<a href="index.html"><img class="kks_logo" src="KKSLogo.png" border="0" alt="KKS Services Ltd logo"></a>
<h1 class="logo">KKS</h1>
<h2 class="logosub">Services Ltd</h2>
<h3 class="head_contact">0113 2826946</h3>
<h3 class="head_contact"><a href="contact.html">[email protected]</a></h3>
<nav id="main_nav">
<ul id="nav_main">
<li><a class="current_index" href="index.html">HOME</a></li>
<li><a class="domestic" href="domestic.html">DOMESTIC</a></li>
<li><a class="automation" href="automation.html">AUTOMATION</a></li>
<li><a class="commercial" href="commercial.html">COMMERCIAL</a></li>
<li><a class="contact" href="contact.html">CONTACT</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
<img class="rivot" src="rivot.png" alt="KKS Services Ltd Rivot"/>
<img class="rivot2" src="rivot.png" alt="KKS Services Ltd Rivot"/>
<img class="rivot3" src="rivot.png" alt="KKS Services Ltd Rivot"/>
<img class="rivot4" src="rivot.png" alt="KKS Services Ltd Rivot"/>
</header>
<section>
<article>
<img class="railings" src="index_rail.png" alt="KKS Services Gates and Railings"/>
<div id="welcome">
<h1 class="welcome">Welcome</h1>
CSS
.slogan{
position: relative;
width: 960px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
left: 10px;
top: -5px;
color: white;
font-size: 1.3em;
font-family: 'Aldrich', cursive;
}
.kks_logo{
position: relative;
top: 50px;
}
.head_contact{
font-family: 'Aldrich', sans-serif;
position: relative;
left: 10px;
top: -175px;
font-size: 1.5em;
text-align: right;
}
ul#nav_main li{
display: inline;
padding: 26px;
}
ul#nav_main li a{
text-decoration: none;
color: white;
font-family: 'Aldrich', sans-serif;
font-size: 1.4em;
position: relative;
top: 13px;
}
#welcome{
position: relative;
top: -267px;
left: 70px;
width: 840px;
height: 35px;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
border-radius: 5px;
}
#welcome h1{
color: white;
font-family: 'Aldrich', sans-serif;
padding: 10px;
font-size: 200%;
position: relative;
top: -5px;
left: 10px;
}
Thank You!
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asked Oct 16 '25 08:10
The problem is the different default styles that browsers have. Neither way of displaying your page is wrong, they are just different.
You have compensated for the default styles of one browser, which makes it look quite different in all other browsers. As long as you compensate for the default styles instead of overriding them, you will have that problem.
For example, for the .slogan style you should set the top and bottom margin to zero, instead of using relative positioning to compensate for the default margin. You can use line-height to center the text vertically in the element, instead of moving it up or down to place it in the center.
Example:
.slogan{
width: 960px;
line-height: 30px;
margin: 0 auto;
color: white;
font-size: 1.3em;
font-family: 'Aldrich', cursive;
}
I know this is an old thread, but I thought I'd offer another answer... A solution I've used is to detect the OS using js, and set a class on the body denoting the OS.
//Windows
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win") != -1){
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].classList.add("win");
}
//Mac
else if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Mac") != -1){
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].classList.add("mac");
}
Then in your css you can make special rules for the specific scenarios you need:
.some-class-name{
margin-top: 3px;
}
.mac .some-class-name{
margin-top: 5px;
}
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