basically a majority of the CSS styles defined for my website are not displayed when opening the page in IE8. This is not only happening for my custom styles (which I load separately through a custom css file), but also for the built-in features of Rockettheme IONOSPHERE template, for example the box1/2/3/4/5/6 module styles. Also, the rounded style is not rendered, and all modules are shown with sharp corners instead.
I am also using a custom css file (called ralph_golfanatics.css), which I load inside the index.php as follows:
$gantry->addStyles(array('template.css','joomla.css', 'ralph_golfanatics.css'));
All custom styles of this file are displayed fine in IE9, but the most important styles are not shown in IE8. Simply adding these css-styles manually in the file template_ie8.css (that file comes with the Ionosphere template package) did not change anything.
Looking forward to receive any help in this matter. The webpage is http://www.golfanatics.de
Thank you all in advance for your hints.
Ralph
Unfortunately, the link you've included isn't working so it's difficult to pin down exactly what the problem is.
If you're referring to rounded borders displaying with sharp corners this is because border-radius is a CSS3 property which is not supported in IE8.
See this link for border-radius browser support.
There are many CSS3 properties which don't work in older browsers; this is expected behavior and most web developers work around this by using either 'progressive enhancement' or 'graceful degradation'. See this link for more information.
Most websites using CSS3 techniques will never look the same in every browser.
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How does one generally debug CSS and resolve issues when some elements on the page are not appearing as they should? For now, I have to painfully comment out CSS declarations one by one to understand how the styles are getting displayed.
While you can not "debug" CSS, because it is not a scripting language, you can utilize the Chrome DevTools Elements panel to inspect an element & view the Styles pane on the right.
This will give you insights as to the styles being overridden or ignored (line threw).
CTRL + SHIFT + I
To Find Errors & Warnings use CSSLint
Debugging CSS and HTML code bugs can really ruin your application design. There are multiple ways to debug CSS and HTML code. There are few things or ways you should consider the debugging and taking care while developing HTML or writing CSS.
Check your syntax errors with http://csslint.net/. It provides the
nice tool and highlights a line where an error occurs.
Closely review your cross-browser compatibility issues. A site looks nice and beautiful in a firefox but sometimes it will not
look nice with another browser at that time you should take care of
cross-browser compatibility issues of CSS. You should nice and proper
CSS framework that will prevent to generate cross-browser issues and
verify HTML tags and CSS properties which may support by browser
correctly.
Browser web developer tool allows outlining an HTML and element with
different criteria this will allow to writing appropriate CSS for HTML
element.
Turn on or off stylesheet with Chrome dev tools. If you’re wondering
how your CSS is affecting a particular page element, the Chrome
DevTools make it easy to toggle each property. In the Google Chrome
web browser, simply right click and choose Inspect Element from the
context menu.On the right side of the Elements panel, you should see a
tab called Styles with some CSS inside of it. This shows you which CSS
declarations are being applied to the selected element, and if you
hover over each CSS property, you can uncheck them individually. When
a property is crossed out, it typically means that it is being
overridden elsewhere. You may need to uncheck a property in several
places to actually remove it from an element.
Use computed tab in chrome dev tools. it tells you exactly how the
browser is computing your styles. When working on large projects this
is essential for resolving cascading issues, problems with selector
specificity, and more.
You may enable chrome dev tools with ctrl+shirt+I or press F12 key
which supports in almost every browser.
Use this to debug your css
* { outline: solid 0.25rem hsla(210, 100%, 100%, 0.5); }
I've been looking for an answer for 3 days straight now (i did sleep a few hours though).
I'm using a wordpress theme that integrates font awesome icons smoothly. But i wanted to alter these icons and use my own, but they won't show in Firefox but do show in Safari, Chrome etc.
I'm using this css code to alter the icon to my own icons:
.fa-euro:before {content:url(http://nip10.nl/xtra-icons/icon-2.png);}
.fa-glass:before {content:url(http://nip10.nl/xtra-icons/icon-1.png);}
.fa-bell:before {content:url(http://nip10.nl/xtra-icons/icon-3.png);}
.fa-coffee:before {content:url(http://nip10.nl/xtra-icons/icon-4.png);}
You can see the website here: www.nip10.nl
Hope someone can tell me how i can alter the css code so the icons also show in FireFox.. I've tried anything from naming images to .jpg files etc. etc..
You should validate your HTML. See here: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nip10.nl
I'm going to guess that the problem is that firefox is running into this error
Line 1069, Column 26: Element style not allowed as child of element
div in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)
And failing to parse the embedded style sheet. You should also not embed your large stylesheets like that. Make them external style sheets. Once that's done, find where your HTML error is that's causing the validator to think you don't have the style sheet in the head tag and it should fix itself.
I'm having some trouble with our precious Internet Explorer 8. We are working on a CMS for hotels and everything was just fine until awhile back, when IE8 stopped rendering the frontend properly. This is the public website demo and the top navigation as well as the menustrip are messed up in IE8. Same with the "Payment methods" in the right side of the footer, where small icons for accepted payment methods should have been shown.
The thing is, we do have a special CSS file dealing with IE issues and it's loaded on the website, but it's not being applied to elements by IE. Also, on my local machine other CSS files (not conditional) are being loaded in IE, but the browser doesn't apply the styles.
It's like this:
the CSS file is loaded
the classes are applied to the tags
but the styles are not applied to those classes (!)
Now this behaviour happens on some pages and doesn't happen on others (very few). For example, on this page the menustrip is ok. I read about similar issues in IE isn't rendering the CSS and js dom injected elements don't pick up CSS styling in IE. The thing is this behaviour has been reproduced on other PC's in the office, as well as at home. I'm quite baffled by this.
Has anyone else experienced similar issues? If so, did you fix it? How did you manage to fix it? Thanks to all!
The site I am currently working on is http://rattscallion.com/ I am focusing my efforts on getting the site to look proper in IE.
I was having trouble getting the frame on the pages (look at /murals.html for the page I'm working on first). IE9 said that the inline-style stated that the background-image was "none," so it crossed out the original background image. I figured it might be getting this from somewhere on the main stylesheet so what I did was make a new frame that only exists in IE and style it only in the IE stylesheet. Unfortunately this also doesn't work...it still says that an inline-style is setting the background-image to "none", but there is no such thing!
I double-checked and this is happening in IE9 standards mode. So why is this happening? Can anyone help figure out how to "force" it over what IE perceives as the inline style?
Well there's your problem:
CSS was ignored due to mime type mismatch
normalize.css
If you check the network calls the normalize.css is received as text/plain instead of text/css. You should install static content (under server roles) in your IIS as for some weird reason it's not installed by default. I'm betting one WHOLE dollar you're using IIS.
You could have just copy pasted the normalize.css into a server side css file so it's not accessed remotely.
I got it working by doing the following:
remove #framePos img{ display: none; } from styles-ie.css
remove unitpngfix.js - the png filter fix was for ie6 and serves no purpose on ie9 (it's actually one of the reasons the frame does not show)
Note: the frame.png pic is place in lots'o'places as background so you should consider a little clean up of the css files
Another Note: unitpngfix.js replaces the frame.png with the clear.gif and places transparency filters on every png element. So tinkering on css will not do anything until you remove the js.
I am pretty much worried to make a duplicate with this question while more than on hour seems to be too much for navigating for the answer.
The situation is:
Widget, which needs to load css dynamically
Sammy.js and .ejs for views - most of all the html content is loaded dynamically
Lab.js to load javascripts
one loaded styles should apply to all the new content which instantly appears on the page
I've already tried the answers from these related posts:
dynamic CSS loading in IE won't work
Dynamically changing stylesheet path not working in IE and Firefox
(..and others)
The only thing which works for me even in the modern browsers is the injection of the "style" node with the inline styles inside. But this doesn't work in IE8 :( I do see the style node in the Developer Tools, but they do not apply. I've also tried to wait until the stylesheet is applied before starting the sammy.js application.
I would really appreciate your answer or a link to the related question and working answer.
P.S. I fix IE8 now, but IE7 working is also in the plan.
Did you try using createStyleSheet instead?
Or you could serve IE styleSheet.cssText instead of createTextNode.