Comments on: Firefox 3′s Internal Rendering CSS

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:07:27 +0000

What’s with the body 8px margin default? When you render iframes, you end up with lots of padding :-P

Very interesting though thanks. (I found this by googling for “margin 8px”, by the way).

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:41:01 +0000

Quite useful, thanks :)

By: LatinSuD

LatinSuD — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:10:00 +0000

Check this link. To remove extra spaces before/after a flash element, remove white spaces between embed and object tags.

By: Racmaster

Racmaster — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:53:58 +0000

Hey Bart, I noticed that you have to set “line-height” to 0 in order to eliminate any vertical space between a Flash element in the above th/td and the td below it. Drove me crazy trying to figure out what FF3 changed, cuz now all my sites have an annoying vertical space between the th and the below td. I’m not sure this helps you, but it may be a clue…

By: bart

bart — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:54:11 +0000

Is the th rendering in Firefox 3 broken? It seems that the th’s collapse to the width of text and do not line up correctly with the td’s below them. Has anyone noticed this? Can someone confirm? I compared to IE6, IE7, and FF2.

By: Arthur K

Arthur K — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:14:09 +0000

I think it is pointless to try to perfect your ‘own’ browser as Harry alluded to. You have to consider the web audience and all the various types of browsers and version differences. There will never be a one-size-fits-all solution to this issue we all bang our heads against. I think to be most productive we need to do what we know to be fundamentally sound (W3C) which is most consistent across all browsers. I’ve found that by doing so, it dramatically reduces the amount of hacking that needs to be done.

By: Santiago

Santiago — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:08:46 +0000

Cool, I will add to my colection :P I had this http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/sample.html

By: Paul Irish

Paul Irish — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:52:58 +0000

Here are the rest: http://meiert.com/en/blog/20070922/user-agent-style-sheets/

By: Harry Roberts

Harry Roberts — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:43:15 +0000

I was poking through it about three weeks ago, and was thinking about tweaking the odd thing, but then I realised that if I set my FF up to be ‘perfect’, what about all the other millions of users? Sure I might fix a niggly bug on my PC, but not on anyone else’s…

By: Eric Wendelin

Eric Wendelin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:47:43 +0000

I don’t think I would change it. I’m sure Firefox developers are trying to achieve the balance between looking like other browsers but also keeping it simple. I wish I could just change it to Eric Meyer’s CSS reset but then the interwebs would break…