Ok, I've been dealing with IE bugs for a long time now, but this one is beyond me. IE 7 and even 8 does it for sure, I've not seen it on FF or Chrome.
So here's a live URL which produces it: http://mog.com/music/America/Holiday
Reproducing isn't easy, it can take a few times to make it happen. Watch your scrollbar to see it change size so you know the page length was suddenly dropped quite a bit.
Here's how you do it:
Hover over any sub-nav link (Main, Albums, Songs, Photos, News, etc.)
Try them until you see the scrollbar change size. Once it does, scroll all the way down and notice the footer has jumped up on top of much of the page content.
Be careful scrolling down that you don't roll over a few other page elements that will suddenly fix this. So far I can see that any of the Play buttons will somehow fix this.
It's just beyond weird. How could a rollover state cause this kind of behavior?
I've tried:
Removing the a:hover style - THIS FIXES IT... WTF? Of course we ideally would keep some hover state, so hoping to avoid this fix.
Reproducing the hover functionality using jQuery hover(). - THIS DOESN'T FIX IT.
I figure the clues are in the elements that somehow magically fix it...and possibly in where the page jumps to, what elements suddenly get obscured by the footer.
Lastly, I didn't produce this site from scratch and it uses a lot of absolute and relative positioning for certain things and I know that is partly what causes these weird bugs. I rarely, rarely use esp absolute positioning to avoid these kinds of bugs, but it's a bit too late now.
Thanks for anyone willing to check it out!!
Well, I figured it out. It was an odd case of the "Guillotine" bug. One I luckily haven't come across before. Turns out the "special" CSS rules on those nav links' hover state (particularly it seemed the border and bg image) were enough to trip this bug. One way around was to drop those styles, but not ideal. The real fix, however, was an unsemantic clearing div placed in just the right spot. More info found here:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/guillotine.html
Hi just a short note: When did you validate your html the last time?
As you probably know, but might have forgotten, fixing your html can sometimes solve a lot of problems. There are 72 errors seen by http://validator.w3.org
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I know this has been asked many times, and I have been searching for the answer in a lot of places but I can't seem to fix my code. Thank you for reading this because I'm going crazy here! First I had a different z-index problem with safari, than another with explorer, but now the z-index problem I'm having with mozila I can't fix in any way. I code in chrome, where it seems to work perfectly (for me it seems at least!)
I believe now it works more or less fine in most browsers but not on mozila. The idea of the page is to make (only with CSS because that's the only language supported by the website) a flipping book of several pages. I see some examples around of CSS only flipping cards (only one page), but not a book of more than one page. So I essentially overlap several "cards", in order to give this effect. You can see the demo from codepen here: pkrein/pen/qBOewem
Btw I do know this code is not as clean as it could be, but that's the way I figured to make a fuction like that works only with CSS, and I hope it will make sense for you.
Ok, so the matter is, the content inside the book pages is not "scrollable" on firefox. I guess this is indeed a z-index problem, because when I move any page outside the book, that is, from behind the rest of the content, it scrolls fine.
Let me know if I can give any more info that could help you understand my issue!
I figured a possible solution for this. It's not quite the solution for the problem itself but it's something that can make what I want to do work.
The problem was: (what I had to remove in order to make it work):
(1) The div #content-holder holding all the text inside the flap
(2) The div .preparation-text inside the .preparation (that's the text I want to scroll). That was a scrolling div (.preparation) inside a non-scrolling div (.preparation-text). I always add a scrolling div inside a non-scrolling div in order to hide the scrollbar, by adding a high padding-right to the inside div. I know I can use code to hide the scrollbar but it do not work in all browsers.
How I fixed:
(1) I just removed the #content-holedr divs, since it was not strictly necessary.
(2) I removed the .preparation-text and transformed .preparation into a scrolling div. Then I just covered the scrollbar with an image of the same size and colors as the background (a print of the layout).
I've spent close to two days trying to solve a z-index/stacking problem in IE7 and I've admitted defeat and I'm hoping one of you geniuses can help me out!
If you go to http://learningseat.wpdemo.com.au/discover/#links in IE7 and click on What We Stand For or Where We're Going you will see that the Who We Work With and Who We Are links show on top of my lightbox.
I've tried to solve this issue by moving things around, adding position: relative and z-indexes to different elements but I've had no success with this at all.
I even tried using some of the jQuery tricks for z-index issues with IE but I've had no luck.
I've worked with another developer on this project and the code isn't too pretty but if anyone could help me with this problem I'd be forever grateful!
Thanks for your ideas and help!
In this StackOverflow answer, Tgr gives a pretty good explanation of how z-index is supposed to work and how IE 7 and earlier get it wrong.
What worked for me in my limited tinkering was the solution presented in the last paragraph of that answer. First I removed the IE7-specific z-index values in your stylesheet, then I added a very high z-index value (9999) to the .buttoninfo that was clicked on. In your code, you can add a class when the button is clicked, then remove it when popup is hidden.
Here's the site in question: http://cbcsettlementfunding.com/dev/
Almost finished up with development, just have a few bugs left to fix in IE6, one of which is particularly annoying: horizontal scrollbars on every page of the site.
Firstly, I can't readily identify what is causing this since it's only happening in IE6 (7, 8, and 9 beta are unaffected).
Secondly, the one trick I had hoped to quickly fix this issue for the time being, setting "overflow-x: hidden" on the html and body tags, isn't working either.
I've been staring at this code for days and can't find anything wrong, so I'm hoping it's just something small that I may have overlooked like forgetting to close a tag or something small.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Try adding <style type="text/css">#sb-container { left:0; }</style> to the head section of your pages.
I know that this might be considered as a non-answer, but if it's eating away at a lot of your time I would strongly recommend simply letting the scrollbars be. Unless the client has a substantial amount of IE6 traffic, this might be the perfect time to let "graceful degradation" take its toll. Especially since an extra scroll bar on the bottom (probably) isn't breaking the layout.
Okay, this is REALLY starting to bug me...
This page works fine in both Chrome and Firefox. www.bloggan.tk
But if it's opened in internet-explorer it always expands beyond the page and introduces the scrollbar no matter what the resolution of the browser is.
I have NO idea what change in the html it was that cause this...
Here's the blogger-template-html-source
I'd REALLY appreciate if someone could help me with this.
Thanks in advance!
Edit:
I've "solved" it for IE using javascript, but that's only temporary (i hope). The version without javascript can be seen here, so that you still will be able to know what I'm talking about. Still trying to solve it, and still hoping for someone to help me.
Before you ask a question here, you'll need to do some basic research yourself.
Strip out everything from that HTML file you reference until you have the simplest possible document that reproduces the error. Don't expect people to dig through a 40k HTML file to find the thing that's causing you grief.
Isolate it before you ask about it.
Incidentally, however, there is no CSS width or height specifier for "the rest of the page". You need to meticulously keep track of your percentage widths to make them add up to 100%, or use tables. If your sample is using percentages, then I'd look for borders and padding, since those are the things that cause discrepancies in box size between old IE versions and modern browsers.
I am pulling my hair trying to find a fix for this problem. If you go to this site you will see that (under IE) the slider and the menu on the top is broken. Works fine under all modern browsers.
Any idea how to fix this? Thanks.
Edit: Want to add that the original site design works fine under IE. I did a massive amount of editing under the hood and somewhere along the line this one was broken that I can't seem to find a fix for. Since I did a lot of customization, I think it seems unfair to ask the original author for a fix (and he is not very responsive either).
The document invalid. In particular, there is a <style> element before the Doctype. This triggers Quirks mode and causes browsers to become very inconsistent (e.g. IE emulates a log of bugs from IE 5.5).
Always work in standards mode and perform basic automated QA.
I can't check it for you, since I've not got access to IE right now, but I've often found that adding position:relative to misbehaving elements is something of an IE magic bullet.
No fix but a lead: the issue with the menu bar is one of IE's mysterious float positioning bugs, as can be demonstrated by putting <div style="clear: both">xxx</div> after the navbar ul. (Note that it won't work if the div has no content!)
stuff about box model deleted: as David Dorward mentions this is caused by quirks mode, and moving the style down past the doctype causes the slider to behave sensibly.