Why firefox and IE changes a text color in HTMLarea?

Does anybody have an issue with the way firefox and IE changes a text color? I'm not be able to change text color with IE when after I change some text color with firefox. When I try to put some color on a sentence, Firefox creates a span tag with a rgb attribute whileIE puts font tag around the span tag.

Is there any workaround to put text color on a product description so that I can use both firefox and IE to update the information?

I have been googling on this issue for several hours but no luck finding a solution. I really appreciate if anybody can give me something to try.

Thanks in advance!

hi, welcome to web development. in general ff follows standards and ie doesnt. follow standards and 99% of the time ff and all other class a browsers will react the same way as long as its html 4 or css2, but ie you will have to create exceptions for each of their browsers.

to answer your question, focus on ff and make exceptions for ie.

In my experience, IE8 is as standards-compliant as FF, though you may need to add extra stylesheets for IE6 and IE7.

Just my opinion, but the best way I know to accomplish what you're trying to do is code the HTML manually in the description by adding <div>s to blocks of text and style them (color, font size, etc.) in the stylesheet.

Thanks for your suggestions!

Just to add a note...I had those issues using IE8 and FF3.6.6.

I guess there is no easy way to fix this problem. I would not use the html editor if I'm the only one using the admin page. A couple of others will use it and they don't know any HTML codes.

I will try making exceptions for IE.

In my experience when both should be reacting properly the issue was mainly caused by improper css and namely when I started with a # vs . and it should have been the other.

Im not saying it is this, but everytime that I have custom made a stylesheet and this happened, that was the issue.

Edit: This is using css2 and not css3, IE will not recognize css3 yet