I have an simple page, and everything works fine except ie8 and ie9 moves one of my elements 1px to the right, and its significant b/c it results in a 1px white line straight on black background. Horrible.
I've tried a lot of css hacks, and ie conditional comments but things like <!--[if gt IE 7]> or <!--[if gte IE 8]> aren't working. Only <!--[if gte IE 7]> is recognised, targets ie7 as well - but ie7 renders the page pixel perfect. So I've tried to rollback the changes for ie7 with additional comment <!--[if IE 7]> but this killed the fixes in later ie's. Ie8 and 9 seem to think they are ie7.
My code so far
<!--[if gte IE 7]>
<style>
#promo {margin-left:-1px;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
EDIT: Solved, It seems it is a bug in IETester, anything works fine in properly installed Explorers.
If it's just one thing you need to bump, you can also use:
<!--[if IE 7 ]> <html class= "ie7"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]> <html class= "ie8"> <![endif]-->
This will give the html element the class of .ie7 or .ie8 depending on what they're using or what you've specified. You can then target whatever you want to override, like:
.ie7 #promo {margin-left:-1px;} or
.ie8 #promo {margin-left:-3px;} and target them individually. You could also specify a rule for IE 9.
And include it in your main stylesheet, near the bottom. This saves you from having to make a lot of different stylesheets.
As far as IE9 not rendering as IE9, I think Internet Explorer will actually fallback into a previous renderer if it's installed for reasons that are totally unknown to me. I think Paul Irish mentions it on his talk on the HTML5 Boilerplate on the onTwik website.
They use some code in their .htaccess file to force IE to use the most recent rendering engine, and will actually force IE to use the Chrome engine if it's installed:
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
BrowserMatch MSIE ie
Header set X-UA-Compatible "IE=Edge,chrome=1" env=ie
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
I would recommend using an actual stylesheet with the IE conditional comments.
This article gives a good overview, but I'd avoid the hacks section.
http://css-tricks.com/how-to-create-an-ie-only-stylesheet/
Are you doing anything that forces IE8/9 to go into Compatibility View? If so, you could be unwittingly telling those browsers to think of themselves as IE7, at least as far as it matters for interpreting those conditionals.
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i have used stylesheet main.css for firefox browser,and ie9.css for IE9 but problem is that style contained in ie9.css is not working on IE9 instead style contained in main.css is working which gives undesirable results?
It's hard to decypher what you mean without seeing your code. However to design for IE versions you can use conditional comments to specify different CSS rules for different versions of Internet Explorer:
<!--[if IE 9]>
<link href="ie9.css" rel="stylesheet">
<![endif]-->
I am working on this site and in IE the nav menu spans 2 lines:
http://www.sandiegolawfirm.com/
I would like to either remove the space on the left of bankruptcy or reduce the font size by a point or two in IE. Allowing all the departments to fit on one nav menu line.
I am actively trying to fix this but would appreciate help with figuring out the best way to get this done.
Thanks - Raleigh
One way fix changes specific to use styles that are specific to IE. Depending on which version you're trying to fix for there are different rules you can use.
For example:
Target ALL VERSIONS of IE
<!--[if IE]>
#any rules you like
<![endif]-->
Target everything EXCEPT IE
<!--[if !IE]><!-->
#any rules you like
<!--<![endif]-->
Target IE 7 ONLY
<!--[if IE 7]>
#any rules you like
<![endif]-->
Target IE 6 ONLY
<!--[if IE 6]>
#any rules you like
<![endif]-->
There's a tutorial here: http://css-tricks.com/how-to-create-an-ie-only-stylesheet/
I think adding something like
ul li:first-of-type a{
margin-left:-20px;
}
to the IE styles could work
It looks like you're trying to use custom fonts and getting unpredictable results in IE since "Gotham" isn't available. You could try using a Google webfont or upload a webfont to your server to at least get similar font sizes.
I thought IE7 and above followed the same box model as Chrome/Firefox/Opera, but when I run the following code in IE8 and then in Chrome/Firefox/Opera, I get different results.
In IE8, the end of the box shows up with a bit of a lip that I want to get rid of. Is it possible to use strictly CSS to fix my issue or do I need to use Javascript to detect the browser and then change the CSS?
Here is the link to the code that I am working with. In order to see my problem, you need to use IE and then either Chrome, Firefox or Opera.
http://jsfiddle.net/LsXTk/1/
IE7 has two modes: Compatibility mode and Standards mode. Yet another of a long line of brilliant moves on MS's part with IE. (Yes, I'm being sarcastic):
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chkoenig/archive/2008/08/28/ie8-standards-mode-and-ie7-compatibility-mode.aspx
What usually trips people up is that, by default, IE8 reverts to compatibility (ie, broke) mode if the page is being loaded locally or from a server on your network. I guess the logic was that it must be a page on your intranet, and since 90% of all intranet web software is horrifically coded IE6 monstrosities that pretty much break in any standard browser, it better assume the code is broken and revert to compatibility mode.
As for detecting IE8, you can do it without JavaScript via IE's conditional comments. What I typically do is wrap the opening body tag in conditionals and give each a unique ID:
<!--[if !IE]> -->
<body>
<!--<![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 8]>
<body id="IE9">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]>
<body id="IE8">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]>
<body id="IE7">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<body id="IE6">
<![endif]-->
Then in your css, you can easily serve up separate CSS as needed:
.myStyle {for good browsers}
#ie7 .myStyle {fix for IE7}
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]-->
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.