Some of my customers say that Vista IE browser overlays object... A little help?

[patstuckemeyer]

Hello. I am new to Zen Cart. I have had a few customers complaining about my top navigation bar when using the new IE from Vista. I am a MAC user, and actually short of driving to a electronics store to check this - have no way to see what they are talking about. But, they said that some of the options at the top (language options, currency options) are showing up as being cut off in the IE Vista browser. Could someone take a look and give me a little advice on this? Thanks!

http://www.justforbrass.com

[Ajeh]

NOTE: having spaces in a directory name or filename etc. is really not a good idea as you have it now ...

As to your current problem I do not see it in FireFox v2.x nor in IE 6.x ... I don't have IE 7.x to check the site with ...

There are some differences between FireFox and IE on spacing but I am not seeing anything dramatic ...

I am guessing you are still in the process of setting things up ... as in go to your Site Map and try each link ...

[Ajeh]

Found ickkies ...

The product_info pages are not laying out right when there are long names on a product as these take up two rows and the little sides of the background do not grow with the extra row(s) ...

Example:
http://justforbrass.com/Zen%20Cart/i...roducts_id=461

Compare to:
http://justforbrass.com/Zen%20Cart/i...roducts_id=287

[Ajeh]

NOTE: gotta fix those images ... 500-600k images are going to lose you customers and cost you in bandwidth and time ...

[gjh42]

THis is a Template Monster template, so once you verify the problem (I can't help, not having access to IE7), you will need to ask them to fix it. They are notorious for changing stock Zen Cart code, permanently disabling functions they don't want to use in their templates, and removing tags that are standard for ZC so that nobody beside them knows how to modify their templates.

They will generally not fix standard functions that they have disabled (calling that additional customizing work for their template), but they ought to take care of something their template is meant to do and doesn't.

[Kayla]

I am having this problem too on a brand new installation and customization. I've not had this with any of my sites before but it's someone with a brand new Vista laptop that is saying the header graphic "sticks" and no matter where they scroll it is in the way of the rest of the site.

I have tested this site on both Mac and PC and Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari and it's only this very brand new Vista IE that has the problem. Obviously we, as ZC developers, can't be having an issue creating sites for the latest and greatest browser technologies... Development team? Is there something here to look into?

Anybody have any ideas for a fix?

http://mahanamaui.net/mahanazen/index.php

Thanks much!

[Merlinpa1969]

I can see the issue on your site in IE however I cant get it to do the same in a stock version,

[Kayla]

I'm not a programming expert but it seems to me that it must be an issue with either CSS or the override system, as I just use the header file and changed the name of the header file it was/is calling, as well as the pixel dimensions, and it is in my includes>languages>english>mytemplate>header.php

Here is the code in the stock file ... english>header.php:

// added defines for header alt and text
define('HEADER_ALT_TEXT', 'Powered by Zen Cart :: The Art of E-Commerce');
define('HEADER_SALES_TEXT', 'TagLine Here');
define('HEADER_LOGO_WIDTH', '192px');
define('HEADER_LOGO_HEIGHT', '64px');
define('HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE', 'logo.gif');

Here is the code in my file:

// added defines for header alt and text
define('HEADER_ALT_TEXT', '');
define('HEADER_SALES_TEXT', '');
define('HEADER_LOGO_WIDTH', '950px');
define('HEADER_LOGO_HEIGHT', '210px');
define('HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE', 'header.jpg');


I just changed HeaderWrapper in the stylesheet to Vertical Align Top just for grins. Can you possibly refresh and see if anything changed?

Thanks much!!

[Merlinpa1969]

No Change,

try adding a seperate clearboth in the tpl_header.php

[Kayla]

Thanks Merlin. Sorry but I don't know what "clearboth" means.