Hitch Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 Hi, back again:Before anyone else tells me this, yes, I should have checked this in IE8 before I coded it, but I had the template a while, and it just never crossed my mind. I have been working on THIS site: http://www.northofcarefree.com/index.php?/coffee/ which renders fine in Firefox. Then, using my other computer, I navigated to it to do something else, and saw it in IE8 for the first time and almost had heart-failure. I think this might be due to the fixed sizing of the divs--but I'm not sure. As a beginner, I'm a bit of a chicken about experimentation. This uses EE as its CMS, BTW. The page is fairly simple--just a few divs, no spans IIRC, nothing fancy; one background color, one background image; a right and left div; and the content divs as they appear (correctly) in FF. If it were the other way around--okay in IE, wonky in FF, at least I'd have Firebug to help me debug, but I don't. I've been through the CSS tutorial on W3schools, but this problem is new to me and I don't know where to start to fix this. Can somebody here at least point me in the right direction?Thanks, I appreciate any help,Hitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescientist Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 IE8 has developers tools similar to Firebug.for non IE native forumers, can you at least elaborate on the nature of the problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsonesuk Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 its because the mail to anchor link is not properly finished '<a href="mailto:hitch@booknook.biz"… ' missing angle bracket and no anchor closing tag </a>, once this is corrected, eveything falls in its proper place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitch Posted July 17, 2010 Author Share Posted July 17, 2010 its because the mail to anchor link is not properly finished '<a href="mailto:hitch@booknook.biz"… ' missing angle bracket and no anchor closing tag </a>, once this is corrected, eveything falls in its proper place.This is bizarre...the mailto tag IS closed in the content container...I noticed the problem with the mailto link showing up where the "Posted by authorname at date time" text is supposed to be, using those variables, and I've been banging around on the EE forums trying to figure out why that is happening, because it's absolutely closed in the actual "blog" entry. Thank you for helping me find it. I'll change up the text in the entry and see if that fixes it, then work backwards from there.n.b. - fixing the weirdo link (actually deleting it entirely) worked, so thank you Dsonesuk. This weirdness has something to do with the way EE does not display mail links to prevent spammer mail. It's a bug I'll have to track down. THANK YOU!!Hitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wirehopper Posted July 18, 2010 Share Posted July 18, 2010 <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" >http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc...28VS.85%29.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitch Posted July 18, 2010 Author Share Posted July 18, 2010 <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" >http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc...28VS.85%29.aspx Thank you, wirehopper, but in this instance dsonesuck spotted it right off, and I "fixed" the problem by removing the offending link (which was parsing incorrectly, for reasons I have yet to decipher). However, I very much do need the compatibility info, so I appreciate you pointing me to it.Hitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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