really BAD IE problem

10 Mar 2009, 01:09

#1

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really BAD IE problem

So silly me, this morning I thought I was finally all finished...my store looks 100% fine in FF, naturally. I just checked in IE and I have a big mess.

Here is a link

So you see how the left & right columns, and in fact the center column also, are all the way up in my header? The only thing I did was remove the top & bottom borders for my left & right containers so I wouldn't have a double line. I can't imagine how doing that could cause this!

Any idea on how I can fix this? I have FF developer toolbar but nothing to give me a clue in IE.

TIA

10 Mar 2009, 01:34

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charinlasvegas

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Re: really BAD IE problem

Just for the heck of it, I uploaded my stylesheet without the changes that I made to the borders & it made no difference. So I'm really puzzled as to how & why this happened all of a sudden. :cry:

10 Mar 2009, 02:31

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charinlasvegas

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Re: really BAD IE problem

I found the IE Dev Toolbar, tried that. It's not really telling me anything, except I had a few validation errors which I fixed but that didn't solve my main problem.

As a temporary fix, I added some <br>'s above my main page content which only helps for that content on that page. My sideboxes and main content are still messed up. The breadcrumb is also up in the header area :frusty:

10 Mar 2009, 03:48

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kim

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Re: really BAD IE problem

How tall is your header? What dimension is specified for it?

10 Mar 2009, 10:02

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website_rob

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Re: really BAD IE problem

Validating code is always a good idea, more so when having problems.

With 643 Errors, 172 warning(s), it's somewhat surprizing the site is working.

10 Mar 2009, 11:57

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stevesh

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Re: really BAD IE problem

Change the height here to at least the height of your header image (171 px):

#logoWrapper{
background-image: url(../images/logo.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-color: #544234;
height:136px;
}

10 Mar 2009, 12:56

#7

charinlasvegas

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Re: really BAD IE problem

stevesh:
Change the height here to at least the height of your header image (171 px):

#logoWrapper{
background-image: url(../images/logo.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-color: #544234;
height:136px;
}

Thanks, that and fixing the height for #headerwrapper fixed the problem. I forgot, I had changed those a while ago...duh. Strange I never noticed the probem until yesterday.

10 Mar 2009, 12:59

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charinlasvegas

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Re: really BAD IE problem

Website Rob:
Validating code is always a good idea, more so when having problems.

With 643 Errors, 172 warning(s), it's somewhat surprizing the site is working.

Yikes! And look at the silly errors they are. I think I know what happened, I found my ftp program sometimes "corrupts" .php files when I upload them. I've stopped even using it, and started uploading through cPanel.

Thanks for pointing that out...sigh.

Strange that the IE Dev Toolbar only gave me 6 errors.

10 Mar 2009, 13:09

#9

rstevenson

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Re: really BAD IE problem

There are excellent free FTP programs available. I believe FileZilla is often recommended for Windows. There are others for Mac.

Rob

11 Mar 2009, 14:05

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charinlasvegas

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Re: really BAD IE problem

I've seen FileZilla mentioned, I'll give it a try. I'm using Core Ftp Lite, which someone recommended to me but obviously it's a program with issues.

11 Mar 2009, 17:35

#11

stevesh

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Re: really BAD IE problem

I've had a lot of luck with the FireFTP plugin for Firefox.