Knowledge Base and Support
Category: Responsive
Why Does My Website Look Different in Different Browsers?
If you have ever wondered why your website looks different in different browsers, you dont have to worry that youre going crazy. There is a legitimate reason why your website may look off in different browsers, likeInternet Explorer. Read on to learn why this happens. Why Does my Website Look Different in internet explorer? Websites are made up of a set of instructions spoken in a web code language, most often HTML or CSS. Often, different browsers interpret code languages differently, which results in different interpretations. Here are some ways this issue affects your website: Browser Default Settings: When a browser reads the code behind your website, it translates the information in the default settings. For instance, Safari and Chrome have different default fonts, which means the font on your site changes when viewed in these browsers. For example,Safari defaults to the Helvetica familyand Microsofts Internet Explorer defaults to the Arial font family. Default issues are
Category: Link
Working with Links
Links are clickable spots (the link) on a webpage that take the visitor elsewhere (the target). A link may take the visitor to another page on your site (an internal link), to a page on a different website (an external or outbound link), or to a different spot on the same page (an anchor link). They may also open an email message addressed to a particular email address in the visitors default email program. (Note that we generally do not recommend this type of email link as it can be a target for spam and, depending on the email program used by the visitor, they do not always work as expected.) The clickable spot can be text or an image. If its text, it is usually formatted in such a way to indicate to the user that its clickable. Historically, this has been through an underline, but, depending on the design of your website, it may be through a different color or a hover affect (the text style changes when you point to it with the mouse). Regardless of the type of link or target, the