Ok, I'm working on a website for a friend's business. I have the layout that he wants. I was going to use the DropShadowExtender on a couple of DIV/Panel controls, just to add some "depth" to the site, since it looks too flat otherwise.
My home setup is WinXP with IE8 and FireFox.
The issue I'm having is that when I apply the DropShadowExtender (using ASP.NET Ajax 4), it looks like it's supposed to -- in FireFox.
Unfortunately, in IE, it's all messed up. The shadow doesn't look like it's supposed to at all, and the layout is completely messed up (shadow over here, container over there, shadow over top of text, shadow doesn't extend length of container, all sorts of problems). However, as soon as I remove the DropShadowExtender, both of the layouts in IE and FireFox basically look the same!
I have a couple of theories as to why, but I can't figure out entirely why this is happening.
1. It's because I'm using percentages or the wrong type of positioning in my CSS.
2. It's because I'm not using the correct DOCTYPE. I've even tried simply <!DOCTYPE> but that didn't really help, either.
3. It's because I incorporated a tad bit of jQuery into the website.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!