I literally have to type in
<!--[if IE 7]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/ie8.css" />
<![endif]-->
to get my css hack to work for ie8. And yet when I click the 'abouts' tab in my IE browser, it clearly says IE8 version 8.0.6001. 18702.
I already reinstalled IE8 because I thought this issue was wierd but I still have to use the IE7 hack in order to get my IE8 only css to appear in my IE8 browser.
Is there something I can do to fix this? I have to talk to other developers and it is somewhat annoying not knowing exactly which IE version I have.
It looks like your IE8 is running in Compatibility View, which causes it to render pages like IE7, including reading IE7 conditional comments.
Look for the button in your toolbar that looks like a torn page, click on that, and it should disable it and return you to IE8 rendering mode.
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As you can see on this live demo, I have a website with two stylesheets, one for our beloved IE and another one for the normal browsers, set like this on its header:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylelab.css">
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie_stylelab.css" />
<![endif]-->
Even though I have checked many times its spelling, it seems correct but if you open the link from IE (IE v11, in my case), normal Stylesheet is loaded instead IE one.
To check easily if the other CSS is loaded, in theory, when opening the link from any IE and executing the menu (bottom right button), it has blue background.
What is missing here?
IE stylesheet has the entire normal stylesheed PLUS the additional properties needed for it to work, maybe this is wrong and shoul only have the additional properties..?
Conditional comments are no longer supported
Support for conditional comments has been removed in Internet Explorer
10 standards and quirks modes for improved interoperability and
compliance with HTML5. This means that Conditional Comments are now
treated as regular comments, just like in other browsers. This change
can impact pages written exclusively for Windows Internet Explorer or
pages that use browser sniffing to alter their behavior in Internet
Explorer.
See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh801214(v=vs.85).aspx
IE stopped support for conditional comments as of IE10.
At this point a better solution is to target CSS based on features rather than vendors/browsers. Tools like modernizr can really help you with this.
I'm having problems when it comes to print in EI9. It seems that the css is failing, but it works great in IE10, IE11, Firefox and Chrome.
I read about bootstrap (yes, I'm using it) and html5 issues when it comes to this browser, but I couldn't find a solution that works in my case.
This is the most significant thing that I've tried so far:
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="html5shiv/dist/html5shiv.js"></script>
<script src="dest/respond.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<![endif]-->
Thanks!
This might help.
Printing Twitter Bootstrap correctly
This site has a pretty detailed explination for html and js browser hacks. http://browserhacks.com
You could also try forcing the IE mode. Like set it to edge.
IE Compatibility Mode: 'X-UA-Compatible' tag 'Edge'
This is a long shot..
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973479
We recently redesigned our public-facing site, however one item was not fully communicated.
A certain portion of our site uses some of the newer display types in CSS. This looks fine in almost all browsers, but not in IE8's compatibility mode or in IE7.
This wouldn't be an issue, except the miscommunicated item was that we DO need to support IE7.
For this reason, my initial fix (forcing IE8 into standards mode) was rejected.
I'm currently developing a CSS to override these sections of the page. We want this to be a separate CSS file, not to use CSS hacks within the main stylesheet for maintainability reasons.
My understanding is that I can include this (or not) by using IE's conditional comments to include it only for version IE7 and below. If I use the conditional comment
<!-- if lte IE 7>
will this also be included with IE8's Compatibility Mode? If not, how do I specifically target IE 8 Compatibility?
At least in IE9, IE does function as IE7 as for conditional comments. For example, with following code:
<!--[if IE 7]>IE7.<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]>IE8.<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9]>IE9.<![endif]-->
"IE7" will be shown in IE9 working in compatibility view mode triggered via a button at the right of location bar.
Update: just tested in IE8 — it does the same as IE9.
CSS is not loading for my site on IE7 for some unknown reason. Its working fine for IE8, chrome and mozilla. You can see the website at www.fineartsbaroda.com
Is this answer resolved?
If not, I was going to suggest putting media="screen" for the default.css stylesheet link.
I suspect that it's because of ::-moz-selection.
css selection is not working in IE
You may need to add a conditional work-around/hack using something like
<!--[if gt IE 8]>
<![endif]-->
I've implemented a landing page design for a campaign we are launching at work, and did testing on IE 7 on my XP machine at work and IE 8 on my 7 machine at home. These both worked and so I thought I had beaten IE, but as it turns out, different OS's IE render HTML differently even though they claim to be the same browser.
Anyone who has XP and IE8 will not see the site correctly at all.
I use two different CSS links. One for IE and one for !IE:
<!--[if IE]>
<link href="../images/content/pagebuilder/idop_2010/free-to-believe-IE.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if !IE]><!-->
<link href="../images/content/pagebuilder/idop_2010/free-to-believe.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!--<![endif]-->
I had to use !IE because IE was still pulling CSS from the good stylesheet, and the IE sheet wouldn't update correctly (a different issue).
If I create IE specific CSS (IE7/IE8 vs just IE) could that fix the problem?
What's a good way to overcome an issue of Operating Systems + IE?
Edit
I installed IE 8 on my work computer and it has the same problem as all the other IE 8 computers. I have Internet Explorer developer tools, and I noticed that IE was running in "IE8 Standards Mode" When I switched it to "IE7 Standards Mode" the layout worked perfectly. I also noticed on my laptop with Windows 7, that the compatibility mode icon was activated. When I turned it off, I was able to duplicate my problem. So now I know for sure it's an IE8 issue in general, not necessarily an OS issue.
I've now created an IE8 specific stylesheet which I'm going to start overhauling to get it looking right.
Here is the site: http://members.opendoorsusa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=IDOP_2010
Anyone who wants to take a look at it and give me suggestions as far as CSS is concerned, I would appreciate it (I didn't do the design, just implementation, so no design critiques please)
Now that I know that this is the problem, I have another question. Why in the world does IE 8 display so different than IE7?!
The best way to overcome IE issues is to use conditional comments:
<!--[if IE 8]>
... link IE 8 specific stylesheet...
<![endif]-->
It seems like you already know about the conditionals so just try an IE8 specific stylesheet and see if it works.
Check this out. In theory, there shouldn't be any differences between different versions of Windows and the same web page on IE 8, but there may be exceptions with ActiveX and possibly the rendering of fonts.
Let me know if an IE8 specific stylesheet works for you.
Did you use the JQuery UI Themeroller? I just discovered a css bug as well that was only in XP, not in Vista. UI tabs and accordions were missing header text. I isolated the issue down to a custom generated theme made by the Jquery UI Themeroller. Replacing the custom theme with a prebuilt theme fixed the problem.