Issues with IE7

[pb4]

Hi,

I have display issues with IE7...I think I remember reading IE7 has bugs but is there anything that can be done to improve things?

The site is here

Thanks for any help :)

[pb4]

no one? Do I need to add more information? You can see all the issues with the site if you view it within IE7...any ideas? help?

Thanks

[torvista]

First fix your validation errors (which may or may not fix the display errors), then create a IE7-specific stylesheet to fix with css the bits that render differently.

[pb4]

Still havn't fixed this and can't see what it is.

Can anyone for me? I have a long strip running across the page above the categories that shouldn't be there. The menus have gone a bit strange (especially the first three) and the 3rd image on the main page (centre) is hiding slightly and should be below online shop image.

How would I set up another stylesheet just for IE and what would I need to change?


Can anyone help?
Thanks

[pb4]

Also meant to add that I checked the validation errors and I can't work out where I need to change things and I have tried to search for the lines with the error messages on in the admin tool kit but nothing shows.

Any help?

[pb4]

Got rid of the line running below the categories (adding diplay none into stylesheet). The sides are still not quite right though but it looks a bit better.

any help with this and the other bits? Thanks

[torvista]

Use Firefox with the HTML validator addon to identify your validation errors.
On your page you have a closing div with no opening div (amongst other minor things): see screenshot,
This may be causing your error in ie, maybe not, but you have to fix what is definitely broken before looking for other reasons.

How to find things in files to correct your validation errors.
Remember that the page as you (and your browser) see it is made up of chunks of template files stuck together by php and with data inserted there by php so much of the html you see in the page source code (in the browser) does not exist written exactly the same in the zen cart files. So if you search for it, you wont find it.
This means that if you search (recommended is Windows GREP if you are developing on a local windows pc) for a line copied from the source code of your browser page like
<li><a href="http://www.mysite.co.uk/">Home</a></li>

You won't find it as the data bit in there – your site address – gets pulled out of the database or from a constants file at the moment the page is created (requested by your browser), it is not written in any page.

So, you should search for a nearby comment or id which generally does exist in the file somewhere exactly as it appears in the source.
eg:
<!--eof-optional categories tabs navigation display-->

You will find this near the end of
\includes\templates\template_default\common\tpl_header.php
AND
\includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME\common\tpl_header.php

So maybe you have put an extra div at the end of the YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME version

OR in the next bit that starts with

<div id="mainWrapper">

a search reveals this to be in
includes\templates\template_default\common\tpl_main_page.php
and maybe
includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME\common\tpl_main_page.php

maybe you have put an extra div here?

Due to the nature of the beast (php) things are scattered around and you have to get used to searching for them, it does get easier..

[pb4]

Thanks for looking and all your help...to be honest I don;t really know what I'm looking for and how I am suppose to know what elements to change.

I am going to sort out the main image issue at the front by changing the images slightly, so that should solve that.

I have solved the issue with the strip along the top by categories by css (see above).

I now have an issue with the drop down menu..any ideas what this would be as changing elements by working through the validation code is only making things worse and I get more errors.

Sorry I havn't had to do this before so I don't know what to change and where.

Really appreciate your help just sorry I'm a bit slow at this!