I've spent most of today trying to work out why the css on my site isn't working correctly in IE7. You can see the site at http://www.ecocamel.com
When you land on the product scroller page with the shower heads. .. everything is a mess, with mouseover popups partly showing without any mouseover, and products flowing out of the container to the right..
I tried adding overflow:hidden, and position:relative, which did fix quite a lot of it.. but it then caused the website to chop off part of the left / right arrows on other browsers...
SO I've removed everything for now. Just infuriating that it works perfectly on every other browser. How can I work out the best way of fixing it without impacting other browsers? I guess I can add the overflow:hidden / postion:relative stuff with a conditional IE7 statement so it doesn't impact other browsers.. but that still doesn't resolve things properly.
A good method is to use conditional comments.
You could use:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if lt IE 7]> <html class="ie6"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]> <html class="ie7"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]> <html class="ie8"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 8]><!--> <html> <!--<![endif]-->
In this cases extra classes are put on the html tag for you to style explicit for IE6/7/8
Like:
div {color:#ff00ff}
.ie7 div {color:#00ff00;}
In the case of using conditional IE7 statements, while it seems a crap way to do it, if that is the only alternative without re-writing your CSS then that is the best solution.
As GordonM has mentioned, it's hard for us to know what's going on without seeing the code. But as you're using position:relative, I may suggest trying to use z-index so that the popup's display on top of everything (like they should do).
As well as this, have you followed the CSS box model correctly? What I tend to do is write these basic statements when I create a div or p tag:
div {
float:left;
width:100%;
margin:10px;
}
This is cross browser compliant, as I used to work for an agency who wanted their websites to use just one CSS file for all browsers. It is possible to build a web page with HTML and CSS and make it work on every single browser (excluding IE6) without the use of conditional statements. But as I think you've come/coming to the end of development, you aren't in a position to re-write your CSS completely. So try the z-index idea first, then try applying the above code to any affected div.
Google "conditional css for IE" and you'll find a plethora of tutorials showing you how to create conditional CSS for only IE version x+ or specifically ie7.. even all browsers but IE. Most websites require some, if not a ton of IE tweaking. Also, look in to a reset.css to set all margins and paddings to 0 to help with consistency.
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My page is at http://jerswebempire.com/ovrtur/index.php
The page displays nearly perfectly in all browsers except IE8. In IE8, floated divs have incorrect margins. For example, you'll see the search bar at the top is sitting underneath the nav. However, if you open the page in Chrome or Firefox or IE9, it's displaying in the correct spot.
What am I doing wrong?! I can't seem to find a fix.
Also, the box for Latest Video is in two columns in all browsers but IE8. It's similar to the above problem where there is a left margin added that shouldn't be there.
The page was built with Bootstrap.
Any help would be appreciated.
Use ie conditionals between your index
<html> </html>
add a class to for the 'ie 8 only' margins like the html boilerplate does.
Load a custom ie 8 only stylesheet and play with the margin problem there like this:
<!--[if IE 8]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie8-only.css" /> <![endif]-->
Or load a class where you need it.
<!--[if IE 8]><html class="ie8 lt-ie9"> <![endif]-->
Apply the ie conditional class to whatever you need.
<div class="floatedDiv ie8"
CSS
.ie8 { margin:0px; }
I can't debug on ie8 but I searched and found that there is in fact a negative margin bug on ie7/8.
They recommend using
zoom:1, position: relative
as a workaround.
I'm completely stuck on a really weird IE bug and non of the other posts about this issue seem to solve it. IE 8 isn't applying CSS styles to HTML5 tags on a site I've just launched. In the past I've always fixed this with a shiv and/or code like:
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<script>
document.createElement('header');
document.createElement('nav');
document.createElement('section');
document.createElement('article');
document.createElement('aside');
document.createElement('footer');
</script>
<![endif]-->
The website is http://www.unyouth.org.au/.
IE8 seems to recognise the header but as soon as it gets to the row of ASIDEs stops working.
Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening? Any help would be amazing.
Thanks so much!
Just figured this out, thanks #Sparky672 for pointing me in the right direction.
For anyone else having this problem the curve just below the coloured shards was created using an SVG. I was under the impression that if IE couldn't render the SVG it would just ignore it, however it seemed it was mucking up everything below it.
I haven't worked out how to remove the SVG for IE 8 down yet, because commenting it out with IE conditionals doesn't seem to work - but that's another issue. Removing it fixes the styling problem!
I have a fix, wrap your inline SVG in the greater that IE9 if comment.
<!--[if gte IE 9]><!-->
<svg id="svg-source" height="0" version="1.1"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" style="position:absolute; margin-left: -100%"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
</svg>
<!--<![endif]-->
Explorer absolutely hates invalid HTML.
Your invalid HTML contains duplicate id's. Specifically, #site is used in both <header> and <footer>. Some browsers just take the first occurrence and ignore the rest.
Line 440, Column 18: Duplicate ID site. <footer id="site">
Line 97, Column 19: The first occurrence of ID site was here. <header id="site">
To resolve your SVG removal issue (after ensuring you have valid HTML) - apply the following code to the top of your page in replace of the standard <html>.
<!--[if lt IE 9]> <html class="lt-ie9"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 9]><!--> <html> <!--<![endif]-->
This will apply the class "lt-ie9" to the whole page where the IE version is less than version 9. Any version, 9 or higher, will display the normal <html> without a class.
At this point, you have a class that you can use in CSS to remove any element for those browsers.
.lt-ie9 svg {display: none;} /* this will remove all SVG elements with the class */
*Disclaimer: It's been a while since I've tried this on IE8. It may only work if you wrap your SVG in a div.lt-ie9 and apply it to the parent instead - I can't remember what errors are thrown. I'd test it, but I'm on Ubuntu and no VM on this machine.*
NOTE: The method of using conditional IE comments in your parent elements - either <html> or <body> - is common, there are lots of variants. You should apply some research in this area and use a more general case than the one provided here. This will afford you the wider benefits of this technique as well as solving this issue specifically.
I know this is not an uncommon problem, but my layout that works in all other browsers blows up completely in IE (8 and 9).
I don't know if protocol is to post all the code here or just a link...
it is: www.megadyne.com/safezone/index.php
I think the relevant part is that I have a container div which is position:relative and then a bunch of divs inside that are position:absolute and the inner divs are being pushed out in IE.
There are lots of other problems with the layout—only in IE, but hopefully they are related?
Thanks in advance!
Brian
Take a look at the css for http://html5boilerplate.com/ it does a pretty good job standardizing all the css for browsers before you put in your code. Try using their css and putting #inline your css into their css where it asks for your custom css, and see if that fixes the issue.
if that doesn't work you can have a separate css file for IE with the HTML5 code
//If browser is IE version 8 or greater
<!--[if gte IE 8]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="iespecific.css" />
<![endif]-->
Turns out there was something wrong with my declaration. Fixed that and all is right with the world again.
I need an IE9 CSS hack to be able to set the background-position property differently for IE9.
I have tried with several different ones that didn't work and from what I read somewhere, the background property is not possible to "hack" at least the same way as the other.
I basically need this to only apply to IE9:
#ABB_ABContent .subnav li.selected { background-position: center 17px; }
Any suggestions?
If you can't find anything else, there's always conditional comments:
<!--[if IE 9]>
IE9-specific code goes here
<![endif]-->
This would have to live in your HTML code, rather than your stylesheet, but you could use it to include an additional CSS file for IE9.
Alternatively, you may want to look up the Modernizr library. This is a small Javascript tool which you add to your site, which detects what features your browser supports, and allows you to write your CSS to target specific features (or their absence). If there's something about IE9 that it doesn't support which you're trying to work around, this may be the best solution.
I'm still puzzled as to what problem you're trying to solve though.
<!--[if IE 9]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="your path" />
<![endif]-->
in ASP.NET application, how to design the pages in such a way that they are displayed properly in both IE6 and IE8 browsers? I would like to minimise the CSS work that I need to do if there are any general guidelines to follow which will work in both browsers. I may still need to tweak here and there, but I want to reduce bulk of the work. Please let me know if there are any such guidelines.
Thanks in advance.
I have been coding a recent project and used the ie7.js script from http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/. It works marvels at fixing IE 6 to a reasonable level. Then use this block to declare your body. (This part was ripped from html5boilerplate).
<!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <body class="ie6"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7 ]> <body class="ie7"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]> <body class="ie8"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9 ]> <body class="ie9"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gt IE 9)|!(IE)]><!--> <body> <!--<![endif]-->
You can how polish up any stray css my using the respective id like this...
#ie6 .element{
//special stuff for ie6
}
The ie7.js script should save you quite a bit of time though.
If you add the following line to your section it will force compatibility mode and help minimize the amount of CSS you need to write:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=100" />
However, you probably won't get it perfect without writing custom CSS rules.
Start by making sure that basic layout of your page is working cross-browser. This can be quite trick, but the good news is that other people already did the heavy lifting for you. Just google for "one column", "three column", "holy grail" or whatever layout your are aiming for and you will find plenty of articles describing how to achieve it in any browser you want.
Starting for there, my suggestion is to code for IE8 and add hacks for IE6 when required. This should keep the hacks at a minimum since CSS that works in IE8 usually also works for Chrome, Firefox and the other decent browser.
Don't try to make your site pixel perfect across all browser, this will only drive you insane. Let your website "degrade gracefully" on the older browser. IE6 users won't care if the site don't have rounded corners or gradients anyway.
Using javascript to simulate modern CSS features in older browser is also a good idea. But I don't recommend using the ieX.js scripts. These scripts require too much CPU to run and can make your site unresponsive if your HTML is heavy.