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The backgrounds in question are drawn
with a single-pixel, xy-repeated,
semitransparent PNG.
This person's IE8 is drawing this as a
gradient that starts at the top left
corner and becomes more transparent to
the right and below.
I am unable to reproduce this problem
in IE8/WinXP/VMwareFusion/SnowLeopard.
Also cannot reproduce with IE7 (IE8 in
compatibility mode). Also cannot
reproduce with IE6 or any other
browser.
we are running the same version --
only the product IDs are different.
I confirmed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_8#Release_history
that 18702 is a final release version
of IE8.
Even tho I did not think it would
help, I asked for a list of addons in
IE8 -- nothing unusual.
What could be causing this problem for
just this one person? The person
mentioned that it is a work computer
and the IT people are really strict
about things. Could any workplace
restrictions cause this weird
behavior? Could it be a graphics
driver issue?
Again, I know this is not an IE8
problem because I have IE8 and cannot
reproduce it.
I want to know how might one alter IE8
-- perhaps for security reasons -- so that this behavior is seen? Or, what
would cause one specific computer to
display things this way?
I have encountered this problem before and the only solution I found is not to use a 1x1 pixel image. Try 1x10 it should fix it.
Are any files (graphics, js, css) being pulled from a server that might be blocked by their office firewall?
I've had this happen, where just one graphic was from some off-limits site, with bizarre results.
My guess is that you're using jQuery, and this bug will pop-up on mouseover for random IE7 and IE8 users. I found one possible fix in a www.farmcode.org blog post:
Wrap the body of your page with the following conditional:
<!--[if IE]><div id="ieWrap"><![endif]—>
(the rest of the page html goes here)
<!--[if IE]></div><![endif]—>
and add the following CSS for IE:
#ieWrap .productView .productThumbnail a
{
background-image: none;
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader
(src='grey_overlay.png',sizingMethod='scale');
width:100%;
}
You'll need to change the CSS to match your situation, but this should get you started.
Related
After spending a while creating an online portfolio, then uploading it, I noticed an issue with one of my sections. On the "Advertisement" section, I noticed it was not displaying the information, just the title. So, I kept on re-pushing the stylesheet.css, even editing it, and it would still look the same. The HTML, CSS, and JS is working how I wrote it. But it is just the section that is not showing. After browsing online and on stackoverflow for an answer, I believe it has to do with Firefox. When using Firebug, I noticed the section's background has been removed, causing the entire section to "disappear." It works just fine on Chrome. I'm not worried about IE, I know that browser has some issues in itself. Anyway, would anyone on here have an idea to resolve this issue, if I can? Or even, what could be causing this issue?
Here is my website to see for yourselves. www.voelkerdesigner.com
Cheers!
It is the opposite for me your entire site works in firefox for me but not in chrome, looking through your code, its being caused by your naming conventions. Namely #advertise
I use the adguard extension in chrome and below is the css it plugs into my html pages to hide ads, so im guessing your using an adblocker in firefox
#adsense_top, #adsensewide, #adspace, #adspace_top, #adspot-300x250-pos-1, #adspot-300x250-pos-2, #adswidget1-quick-adsense, #adswidget2-quick-adsense, #adtext, #adtop, #adv-masthead, #adv-top, #advert1, #advert2, #advertbox3, #advertise, #advertisement1, #advertisetop, #advertising-container, #advertising_wrapper {
display: none!important;
}
Might as well post a random answer on this... As i wont visit posted links by new users.. i'm just gonna guess that your background image might not be 100%...
In general i use background-image instead of background.. Short hand can be a little pain and breaks in some browsers if not perfect.
so i would compare against the following example
background-image:url('images/mybg.jpg');
background-image:url('http://somesite.com/images/mybg.jpg');
Basically alot of people do not use the url and just go straight for a file name or dont quote it.. And have seen that be the problem in the past, so do use the url('') method.
Otherwise if it still fails to work and you know the image is absolute, you would then have some other css that is either over riding your elements background or is preventing it from loading.
Another trick is using your console / inspect element to manually inject the background-image and see if that works... So once the page has loaded in chrome, inspect the element as normal.. And double click on your css property listing as you can add your own styles this way and if it fails, then its not the markup but something else.
I have a custom cursor that is using an image. My original code:
cursor:url(../images/drag_mini_bg.png);
I then discovered that Firefox requires you to define a default backup in case the image is not found, and changed it to:
cursor:url(../images/drag_mini_bg.png), default;
This worked for Firefox and Chrome, but not IE. I read that IE uses a different source for the path than other browsers and implemented this solution:
cursor:url(../images/drag_mini_bg.png),url(/images/drag_mini_bg.png),default;
(The second url is relative to the html file rather than the css file that this code is included in.)
This didn't seem to help, so I found out about this bug and changed the image to a .cur file:
cursor:url(../images/drag_mini_bg.cur),url(/images/drag_mini_bg.cur),default;
However, it is still not showing up in IE. Anything else I can try?
Most of what you've read is correct, but I'll make a few amendments:
Firefox does indeed require the additional parameter to be added. My understanding is that the ideal value for this is auto. But if default works for you, use it.
As you've been told, IE can only display cursors of the .cur file type. PNGs and GIFs do not work.
However, I've never heard anything about IE using a different path; the same path has always worked fine for me in all browsers (when using a CUR file, of course). You might want to provide a reference to where you heard this, but I'd suggest that dropping the second URL may solve your problems.
There's a good site called Quirksmode that has a lot of browser compatibility tables. In particular, they have a very thorough table covering CSS cursors, which shows exactly how to format it to make it work in all browsers, with examples and notes about the quirks.
Hope that helps.
If you're still trying to figure this out 8 years later...I'll add that some browsers have a maximum image size, so maybe yours was too big. I believe you want to keep it under 32x32 pixels.
Problem:
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I'm having a problem which I need to solve as simple as possible. There's a website I'm re-developing, but since I updated to IE8, I've totaly forgotten about IE7, but ofcourse, there are still people using it.
I need to know what specific things I should change for this site to display the same way as it does in IE8. But I don't know where to start. Is there anyone with experience in this, who can give me a guideline? Are there scripts for doing so?
URL: http://www.testsite.c-tz.nl/
If you view this with IE8 it looks perfect.
But if you view it with IE7, things are not where they supposed to be, very ugly.
As the other said, your question is to broad. You'll need to break it down in smaller problems - which will possibly help you solve it yourself along the way.
One thing I did notice: IE has problems with display: inline-block on elements, which were orignally block elements. Either use span (only possible if it doesn't contain block elements), or use another method to places blocks side by side such as float.
BTW, you have far too many divs in your HTML. It's not necessary to wrap every img, every ul, etc. in it's own div. Usually any styles you apply to the div can just as well be applied you the "wrapped" element directly.
This is not a cool idea... But you can try when you are sick with very old browsers like ie6 or ie5 ...
1.use javascript to detect the browser and version..
2.later use the similar way to redirect the visitor to download the IE 8..
<script>
if(''+browserName+''+fullVersion+'' == "Microsoft Internet Explorer6.0" )
{
alert("You're using an Old Browser.Update the browser to view the website.(or) Try Latest Google Chrome , Firefox , Safari, Opera")
window.location = "http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=43"
}
//document.write(''+browserName+''+fullVersion+'');
</script>
I have a php file with 's and the things in the div should stay on one page,
for this possebillity i found this:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_print_pagebi.asp
However like you can see its only compatible with opera and nothing more.
I dont want to demand my users to use opera so I was wondering if there was a alternative to the "page-break-inside:avoid".
Thanks
Matthy
Support for print specific CSS is pretty crappy. Have a look at the CSS discuss Wiki for an extensive guide (it also has a link to a browser support compatibility table). I have had some success with page-break-before: always when I was playing around with this sort of thing a few weeks back - as long as your div is less than a page long you may be able to just force a page break before it?
I have been working on a webpage. It is the first I have actually tried to design using an image and then use proper CSS layout rather than tables.
http://www.roccocammisola.com/proj/brunel/bgimage.html
I have been having issues with the shadows on either side of the main content area. Of course these are only an issue in IE. As you can see the shadow has been cut down to about 10% of its actual height.
With my relative inexperience how do I look for relevant fixes to this issue.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
FireBug, the most crucial tool for debugging CSS, amongst other things.
get it here
IE Web Developer Toolbar
It's not as good as firebug in general, but it helps when you have an IE-specific problem.
In addition to Firebug, making sure your HTML is valid is an invaluable tool and can minimize CSS headaches. Sometimes your CSS may not work right because there are mistakes in the HTML. The different browsers have different ways of dealing with improperly written HTML which can sometimes make it seem like there's a cross-browser CSS issue. The validator can help you find mistakes in your markup.
http://validator.w3.org/
+1 for FireBug
In this particular case, I'd just suggest a new approach for your shadows. Currently, you have them as items. You typically want to use CSS background images for things like this.
.mainShadowRight {
*/ your other stuff */
url('images/mainShadowRight.gif');
}
Your .mainShadowRight CSS class specifies a min-height (which IE6 doesn't understand, and IE7 doesn't always 100% get correctly)
and as DLarsen pointed out, it appears you are missing the background-image: url(); bit.
Thanks for all your answers, seems to have done the trick.
I think I spazzed out with the upload as I should definitley have had the bg-image stuff there.
That IE web developer toolbar looks pretty good too as I have firebug and web developer bar for FF.
Another hot recommendation for debugging CSS - CSS Viewer.
It's a Firefox add-on that allows you to hover over elements in a web page and see their exact style. Often you figure out that the final style was not what you meant, possibly due to some inheritance of styles.