HTML messing up between browsers

Progg

Ok... so my website's structure is such: root dir > subfolders. All of the html files are in the root directory. However I am adding another element to my site and this has been added as root > newfolder (with a new html inside this). Now... in the coding of the new html page that I am adding for all of the links I have "../" to back up a directory and grab the css and javascript files from the root directory. This works perfect in Chrome... but as soon as I use another browser it blows up in ways I can't imagine. I can't get IE or Firefox to read either "../" "../../" or "/" to move directories or use the root directory. Here is an image to demonstrate what is happening.

Chrome works... Firefox can't find the css stylesheets to load the background.... and Internet explorer just commits suicide.

MoP

I use ../ and ./ in the links on my site and it's fine in all browsers... not sure what's going on there?

Progg

Yeah. I really don't know. Like I said it works absolutely fine in Chrome...

Eric Chadwick

My site seems to render fine too. The main pages (links on the left) are all in the root, but the rest of the pages are in a subfolder. And they all call the same CSS file, located in the root.

kdm3d

WYSIWYG editors FTW... sorry... couldn't help it. I actually use dreamweaver for my sites. its sets all this stuff up for me and works pretty well. Well... I have to tweak the code a little... but... are you using an editor? or writing by hand?

Progg

Writing by hand. I'm old school... mostly because I don't own Dreamweaver. I got it thought, I had to update some stuff in the heading for backwards compatibility to the other two browsers... I guess chrome has it built in or something.

MoP

Have you checked it through the W3C validators for CSS and HTML? It's possible there are some compatibility errors?

Progg

Yeah I actually just did. It checked out. The only thing that was weird was some function that needed to be changed for internet explorer. Don't know why it broke mozilla though.

I have another question for anyone that knows. I have a few small quicktime videos set to autoplay... and they play fine in everything but Chrome. I cant get autoplay in Chrome for some reason.

Richard Kain

Yes, this is because Chrome is awesome. Firefox is also good, but occasionally has hiccups with CSS. IE is the devil, the bane of every web designers existence.

As far as the quicktime goes, did you use the autoplay variable in the embed tag and the param tag for the object tag?

Progg

Actually yes I did. Im glad you said that though because it made me find an error. Everything is resolved.... Except IE ... god I hate that browser... Gonna have to monkey with it. Formatting is weird.