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mollifying Internet Explorer FAQ? -
06-05-2006
, 11:23 PM
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I just noticed some CSS of mine does not work in IE. Hoping to avoid booting into XP as much as possible, I'm hoping to just read a FAQ for how to mollify the old browser. Many questions on this group have a variant of "Why doesn't this work in IE" as the subject line, but they cover a variety of problems. I'll slog through old answers if I have to, or just figure it out, but if there's a FAQ I'd definitely prefer it. In case anyone feels charitable enough to just tell me, it's here: http://ourdoings.com/csstest1/ It's not that I don't feel charitable, I just don't know enough about |
employ any, probably because I haven't tried to use any really
adventurous techniques (maybe I'm just not creative enough). I don't
know of a FAQ, but some posters might have a favorite "hack" site. I
think I personally would start at www.positioniseverything.net .
But I did have a look at your site (there: _that's_ charitable!), on the
off chance I might be able to help you, and anyway, I might learn
something. Well, I do see that IE garbles your left margin, but I can't
tell you why. I looked quickly at your code and your CSS (although I
don't understand your b.css, which merely imports your main.css). And
now I gave up, because there's more of both than I can wade through in
my head.
Since this appears to be a test case (and not a real page), why don't
you simplify it? Edit out the (at least) last three rows of photos, your
footer table and text, your byMonth div, and all their associated
styles, plus the styles you're not even using now (e.g., .fullsize). If
you do this iteratively, you'll probably find two things:
1) People will be more willing and able to help you; and
2) You might figure out the problem yourself, or can narrow down the
question ("Doesn't IE support left-handed frangibles?").
So now I'm done, because the problems you're having are too complicated
for me to spend time on (so I guess I'm *not* that charitable ;-) ).
John
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I just noticed some CSS of mine does not work in IE. Hoping to avoid booting into XP as much as possible, I'm hoping to just read a FAQ for how to mollify the old browser. Many questions on this group have a variant of "Why doesn't this work in IE" as the subject line, but they cover a variety of problems. I'll slog through old answers if I have to, or just figure it out, but if there's a FAQ I'd definitely prefer it. In case anyone feels charitable enough to just tell me, it's here: http://ourdoings.com/csstest1/ In Firefox the text fits inside the white area. In IE it starts in the blue margin to the left and ends before the right end of the white area. |
than <body> -- if IE is throwing a wobbly at "width: 760px", it might be
ignoring the margin as well.
Haven't tried this myself, mind!
HTH
blagne ford
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I just noticed some CSS of mine does not work in IE. Hoping to avoid booting into XP as much as possible, I'm hoping to just read a FAQ for how to mollify the old browser. Many questions on this group have a variant of "Why doesn't this work in IE" as the subject line, but they cover a variety of problems. I'll slog through old answers if I have to, or just figure it out, but if there's a FAQ I'd definitely prefer it. In case anyone feels charitable enough to just tell me, it's here: http://ourdoings.com/csstest1/ In Firefox the text fits inside the white area. In IE it starts in the blue margin to the left and ends before the right end of the white area. |
You're using a transitional doctype. New documents should use Strict.
One of the reasons is that transitional throws the UA into quirks mode,
so the UA could do anything (including this). Strict will put the UA
into standards mode, and you might get better results.
You are doing some strange things with your class naming conventions,
eg. class="entry _2004 _200404 _20040422", see
<http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/goodclassnames>. Or is there a script
generating this?
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New documents should use Strict. |
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One of the reasons is that transitional throws the UA into quirks mode, |
with the OP's site).
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One of the reasons is that transitional throws the UA into quirks mode, Only if the URI is omitted from the doctype declaration (as is the case with the OP's site). |
things right. At some point I'll wean myself off the CENTER element and
switch to the strict doctype.
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You are doing some strange things with your class naming conventions, eg. class="entry _2004 _200404 _20040422", see http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/goodclassnames>. Or is there a script generating this? |
for certain years, months or dates.
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(although I don't understand your b.css, which merely imports your main.css). |
People using ourdoings.com can choose a canned style and/or add their
own custom CSS. The HTML page queries the database for only one bit of
style information: Is there any custom style or not? Then b.css, if it
is used at all, queries the database for what canned style, if any, is
used and imports it. Then it outputs any custom CSS.
In the example page I gave, I used a canned style and no custom style.
More about the feature here:
http://ourdoings.com/forum/posts/list/7.page
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