I've had 2 people looking at this all morning, and I can't seem to figure out why IE 8 and 7 is pushing my entire page over to the left. Not having any issues in any other browsers. There is also an problem with the menu, it doesn't seem to work on this page either. Can anyone spot what is going on here? Any help would certainly be appreciated.
http://wineexcursion.com/dev/index.php/event_info/event_schedule/
The comment at the top of the markup is forcing IE to render in Quirks mode, which is what is causing the problems. In IE, if anything precedes the doctype in the markup, it triggers Quirks mode rendering.
From the page source:
<!-- Brown Callout/Brown Sidebar -->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
If I use IE dev tools to force the page into standards mode, the page centers as it should and the menu works.
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I've been spinning my head for 2 days trying to find out why my site looks so messy in IE8, and 9. It looks fine in Chrome and Firefox. I need help, I can't find the CSS issue...
http://tytonsound.com/ is the web site.
In IE, there's some scripts that aren't being noticed. (Like the nav bar). In addition, the nav bar is off center, and shifts down a little.
Please let me know if you notice anything that would be causing the site to be off center.
You're missing a doctype which is causing IE to render your site in Quirks Mode.
If you're using any HTML5 you should place <!doctype html> at the top of your file (make sure nothing precedes this, not even white space) otherwise use an XHTML or HTML 4 doctype.
You are lacking !DOCTYPE element before your html tag (IE is very picky about this)
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#dtds
Look through the different types for xhtml and decide which fits your needs.
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html ...>
...
My website is not rendering properly in IE browser and in other browsers like chrome, safari and firefox it displays fine. I am not sure if any div has a problem or is it the style sheet.
Below is the url for which I am talking about:
http://unyforme.com/demo/
Not sure what is causing the bad layout in IE.
Please advise if any one finds a clue and/or point out some thing for me?
Your DOCTYPE must must must be the first line, or IE renders in quirks mode.
Remove everything before:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Also, to make the site load significantly quicker, move all your javascript to the bottom, just before the end of your body tag.
It's just insane, I've made soo many websites and still it seems every time IE7 and IE8 behave differently every time!!
I'm working on a friends website: Class One
Except I can't seem to get my head around why IE7 and 8 seem to be adding in extra spacing. The positioning of the text overlay div on the jquery slider is off a few pixels and wont cover the full width and the inner div float left content just looks way off, why wont it meet the float right, the maths is right!
I would normally attach code if I knew the problem area but It would be an awful lot of css and html to attach so just put the link up instead.
Thanks in advance!
P.S. I am aware of the php error code, I am getting the hosting provider to sort that as I type! :)
Turns out the php warning is before the doc type so this maybe it?
The major problem here is the DOCTYPE.
This tag must be the first tag in you code, but isn't, because of the PHP Warning.
See:
<br />
<b>Warning</b>: mkdir() [<a href='function.mkdir'>function.mkdir</a>]: Permission denied in <b>C:\Program Files\HSphere\3rdparty\PHP\PHP5\prepend.php</b> on line <b>33</b><br />
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
Change beginning of output to
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
If you don't put this tag in the first line, IE will activate quirks mode, and very strange things will happen. When a browser activate quirks mode, many things change, as box model.
NOTE: many browsers has quirks mode, not only IE (I know that firefox has too).
Note: correct use of DOCTYPE will reduce the differences between IE7 and IE8, but not remove all of them.
Ever heard of the IE box model? It's so fun.
Here's some info:
http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/09/12/ie-and-the-css-box-model-wronger-than-wrong/
Summary of IE hacks found to deal with your problems:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/ie7-dehacker.html
Differences in IE 8:
http://www.evotech.net/blog/2009/03/ie8-css-support/
I'm developing a user control that will be embedded in Umbraco. It's been a long slog but I've got it mostly working.
At this point I have a template in Umbraco that refers to my web control as a marco. So far so good. It looks great in Firefox, but breaks in IE7.
The weird part is that the control looks perfect in both IE7 and Firefox when I view it in my test project, outside of Umbraco. Inside Umbraco, Firefox looks great and IE7 breaks. Some of the styles are applied in IE7 but not others, breaking the rendering.
I've checked to make sure the CSS files are in the right place in Umbraco, experimented with a few other things, but no luck. I can't think of anything that would cause IE to break this way only when the control is hosted in Umbraco. If the CSS files were inaccessible, it should break completely, not apply some of the styles but not others.
TIA
EUREKA:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
I didn't have it in my template. Duh.
If you view this page: http://www.sussexjewelers.com/product_search.php?cid=69
The drop down menus (horizontal green bar) do not drop down in ie7. They do drop down in ie6, firefox, and chrome. Also if you view the homepage the same drop downs DO work in ie7. I cannot figure out why they are not working on this page in ie7. They are pure CSS drop down menus.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
You have a bunch of style and script tags before the actual HTML document. Those should be in the head tag of the page.
The doctype tag has to be the first tag in the source, otherwise IE will render the page in quirks mode. Other browsers may also render it in quirks mode, but it makes a lot more difference for IE. One big difference is that the box model is handled incorrectly.
Once you get the basic structure of the code correct, you should validate the html, and the css to see if there are more problems in the code. I can see right away that you have an HTML doctype but you are using XHTML tags in the code.
If the menues still doesn't work after cleaning up the code, I would guess that it's a problem with the z-index so that the menues show up but is hidden behind the main content. IE doesn't handle z-index correctly for elements that has layout.
Your <style> and <script> tags should be inside your <head> tag, not outside your <html> tag.
Also add a DOCTYPE
XHTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
HTML 4
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
Take your pick.
TonyF is right. In the future, try running this in your URL bar to see if you're actually in Standards Mode (CSS1Compat) vs Quirks Mode (BackCompat):
javascript:alert(document.compatMode)
I have that in a bookmarklet in IE.