IE7 not working

sowerby · 11-10-2009, 04:18 AM

Hi all,

Have a question. Why does my site view ok if using Firefox but when viewed in IE7 its all over the place.

Masive caps in the text, pictures not aligned correct. Just genrally looks awfull. I don't want to try and drive traffic to this site as a lot of web users will be using IE7 or other IE browsers.

Any solutions or other members had this problem.

Cheers

Craig

SimonFairbairn · 11-10-2009, 04:30 AM

It sounds like you have a problem with your CSS. IE7 doesn't support the full range of CSS 2.1 attributes and handles some properties incorrectly. As such, it has a lot of known layout issues.

One of the biggest annoyances as a web designer is getting sites to look the same across many browsers. There is no quick-fix solution, as the problems generally vary so greatly from site to site and can be caused by a hundred different things.

One of the quickest solutions would be to offer up a separate stylesheet using conditional tags in your HTML, and put all of your CSS fixes in there.

Si

sowerby · 11-10-2009, 05:06 AM

Cheers Si,

Will have to look into that!

n7 Studios · 11-10-2009, 07:49 AM

A reset CSS stylesheet can also help, as it aims to neutralise some of the differences between web browsers (bearing in mind you've got IE6, 7 and 8 - mentioned seperately as they each behave differently, Firefox 3, 3.5, Safari 4, Google Chrome 2 and Opera, as well as a few others).

See Eric's Archived Thoughts: Reset Reloaded for more information.

Chances are you'll need to redo some of your CSS or HTML markup - oh, and practice makes perfect. You'll quickly get to know the common quirks amongst browsers and how to avoid them.

trumpetblast · 11-10-2009, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by n7 Studios

A reset CSS stylesheet can also help, as it aims to neutralise some of the differences between web browsers (bearing in mind you've got IE6, 7 and 8 - mentioned seperately as they each behave differently, Firefox 3, 3.5, Safari 4, Google Chrome 2 and Opera, as well as a few others).

Thanks, that blog post was quite helpful. Bookmarked.

LazyMogul.com · 11-11-2009, 11:15 AM

Your Question:

"Why does my site view ok if using Firefox but when viewed in IE7 its all over the place?"

my answer:

because... IE and windows sucks... (I've spent many many hours dealing with this problem.)

message to Mr. Gates: GET WITH THE PROGRAM, MICROSOFT! GEE...

-C

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SimonFairbairn Warrior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 21 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Social Networking	Re: IE7 not working It sounds like you have a problem with your CSS. IE7 doesn't support the full range of CSS 2.1 attributes and handles some properties incorrectly. As such, it has a lot of known layout issues. One of the biggest annoyances as a web designer is getting sites to look the same across many browsers. There is no quick-fix solution, as the problems generally vary so greatly from site to site and can be caused by a hundred different things. One of the quickest solutions would be to offer up a separate stylesheet using conditional tags in your HTML, and put all of your CSS fixes in there. Si
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sowerby HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: UK Posts: 199 Thanks: 34 Thanked 185 Times in 25 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: IE7 not working Cheers Si, Will have to look into that!
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n7 Studios Web Developer, IT Support War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 513 Thanks: 10 Thanked 77 Times in 65 Posts Social Networking	Re: IE7 not working A reset CSS stylesheet can also help, as it aims to neutralise some of the differences between web browsers (bearing in mind you've got IE6, 7 and 8 - mentioned seperately as they each behave differently, Firefox 3, 3.5, Safari 4, Google Chrome 2 and Opera, as well as a few others). See Eric's Archived Thoughts: Reset Reloaded for more information. Chances are you'll need to redo some of your CSS or HTML markup - oh, and practice makes perfect. You'll quickly get to know the common quirks amongst browsers and how to avoid them.
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LazyMogul.com Lazy Mogul Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 22 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: IE7 not working Your Question: "Why does my site view ok if using Firefox but when viewed in IE7 its all over the place?" my answer: because... IE and windows sucks... (I've spent many many hours dealing with this problem.) message to Mr. Gates: GET WITH THE PROGRAM, MICROSOFT! GEE... -C