Internet Explorer 7.0 Released - HELP!

I second Alan's comment. When a site appears broken in Firefox but not in IE, that almost always means that it is broken period, but IE is ignoring the errors while Firefox gives you more (perhaps unwarranted) credit and tries to do what you actually told it, rather than what you meant to tell it.

The small number of exceptions usually arise from designers using some of those IE specific extensions of which Microsoft used to be so fond before it saw the light in respect of standards.

Can someone help me debug this sheet? For some reason the site works fine in Firefox but in IE 6.0 The welcome and greeting disappears if you scroll up and down the page. If you click on a product the price, product name and ask a question like disappears I am guessing it has to do with my style sheet but I have no clue where the bug is. Can any one help?

Hello,

Does anyone have any suggestions for the following site to make it compatible with IE 7?

http://lilysavitch.com/shop/index.php

Thank you!

lextechs:

Can someone help me debug this sheet? For some reason the site works fine in Firefox but in IE 6.0 The welcome and greeting disappears if you scroll up and down the page. If you click on a product the price, product name and ask a question like disappears I am guessing it has to do with my style sheet but I have no clue where the bug is. Can any one help?Hi lextechs

To have any realistic chance of debugging the sort of problem that you describe, we would need to see it in action, and be able to see the relevant CSS "in situ".

kittytickles:

Hello,

Does anyone have any suggestions for the following site to make it compatible with IE 7?

http://lilysavitch.com/shop/index.php

Thank you!kittytickles

Could you be more specific as to what you see as the problems preventing compatibility with IE 7. Also, you have a large number of validation errors which may be contributing to the problem. Personally, I'm reluctant to try to diagnose problems until the site owner has cleaned up their code.

I am not sure if I have the same issue or not. When I load the pages at https://www.ladiesgolfstuff.com/zencart in Firefox, there is a row of links across the top (above the logo and images) for Home, Log In, etc.

In IE7 I try loading the same page and the row of links are briefly shown, then the images "jump?" up the page and cover 'em up.

I tried following the earlier posts about creating a separate ie_stylesheet.css, BUT could not find any * html values in my stylesheet.css to indicate a 'hack'.

I did run a validation on the html home page and it (now) comes back with zero errors.

Any help on what I need to keep the images from jumping on top of my navaigation would be much appreciated.

SIDENOTE: Anyone have a link or two to info on how to run multiple browsers on one machine? I would like to run IE5, IE6, IE7, Firefox, etc.

Cheers!

Brian
:frusty:

BrainSkiGuy

Hmmm. You've been doing some interesting stuff. Firstly credit to you for taking the time to validate before asking for help. That's much appreciated. But what on earth is the navSuppWrapper from the Zen Cart footer doing in your header! Oh well, each to their own.

The easiest way to solve your particular problem is probably to give the #navSuppWrapper an explicit height. 2.5em would seem like an appropriate value.

You can run as many browsers on the same system as you want. The only ones that get in each other's way are the various versions of Internet Explorer. But that's a neat little package that gets around this. It's cunningly called "Multiple IEs Setup" and you can get it as a free download from TredoSoft.

kuroi:

Hi lextechs

To have any realistic chance of debugging the sort of problem that you describe, we would need to see it in action, and be able to see the relevant CSS "in situ".

kuroi

Thanks for your help so what i am seeing it on my pc i have had other users say there is no problem with the site so i am guessing there might be something in my IE settings that may or may not be turn on, the site works fine in firefox so i am not really sure how to duplicate it.

lextechs:

i have had other users say there is no problem with the site so i am guessing there might be something in my IE settings that may or may not be turn on, the site works fine in firefox so i am not really sure how to duplicate it.The problem that you described sounded like an example of the IE6 peekaboo bug, so it wouldn't affect Firefox or even IE7. This can be caused and resolved several ways, but involved the interaction of HTML and CSS and so can't be solved by looking at a stylesheet in isolation.

I am hoping that someone can take a look at my main page - Old West Games - in Firefox and IE7...

The centerboxwrapper border does not "wrap" around all the items in the Featured Products and New Products sections in IE7. Works great in Firefox.

here is the css for the centerbox border

.centerBoxWrapper { background-color: #fff; margin: 0; background-image:none; background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:left top; border: solid 2px #000; }

.centerBoxHeading { color: #fff; background-color: #996; margin: 0; height:32px; background-image:none; background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:right top; padding: 0.5em 0.2em; border-bottom: 2px solid #000; }

I could just get rid of the borders but if there is another solution I would be interested in giving it a go.

Any suggestions?

mafiasam

Try adding height:1% to the centerBoxWrapper class. This forces IE (6 and 7) to properly calculate the dimensions of the box before wrapping the border around it.

kuroi:

Try adding height:1% to the centerBoxWrapper class. This forces IE (6 and 7) to properly calculate the dimensions of the box before wrapping the border around it.

Worked perfectly!

No need for separate IE7 coding either.

Thank you very much Kuroi.

Is this the IE7 problem you talking about???

Hi there. I have used the IE stylesheet override, and it works wonderfully for most of my site. However in some cases I have separate stylesheets for certain product pages (named p_180.css, p_211.css, etc). How can I create an IE only stylesheet for these particular pages?

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!

Hi I have a Question, I am having a big problem. I just notice in Intenet Explorer, IE7 reported an error and would not load any of the product pages. This error only appears when a product page is loaded after clicking on a product name or image from the product listing page. The error message reads as follows and appears in a warning message dialog box. After clicking on the ok button the usual 'This page cannot be displayed message' is shown.

Intenet Explorer cannot open the Internet site
https://www.thegoodshepherdstore.com/...oducts_id=1018

Operation aborted

Do you have any clue of what this could be. Thank you very much.

Just started to do this for some strange reason. Works fine in firefox

This may sound like a stupid question, but where do I go or what files do I fix to correct these 34 Errors.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegoodshepherdstore.com%2F

Thank you very much

countrycharm, you need some serious recoding done to your Template.

You may find that as the errors are corrected, previous errors/problems will magically disappear. That's the beauty of using Valid code.

If not sure how to correct the errors you will need to hire someone or go back to whomever you got the Template from. Doesn't look like a TemplateMonster template but sure is acting like one.

countrycharm:

This may sound like a stupid question, but where do I go or what files do I fix to correct these 34 Errors.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegoodshepherdstore.com%2F

Thank you very much

Website Rob:

countrycharm, you need some serious recoding done to your Template.

You may find that as the errors are corrected, previous errors/problems will magically disappear. That's the beauty of using Valid code.

If not sure how to correct the errors you will need to hire someone or go back to whomever you got the Template from. Doesn't look like a TemplateMonster template but sure is acting like one.

Website Rob:

countrycharm, you need some serious recoding done to your Template.The template looks to me to be Cherry Zen which was extensively tested by its author, Jade.

It comes with just one minor validation error, the first one where the validator doesn't like "search" as an input type. This has no effect on any browser other than Safari which needs it in order to display the (ironically) Safari-style search fields.

The rest of the errors have been introduced by countrycharm, so fixing them should be a matter of going back over the changes that you have made to identify those which produce invalid code.

An approach of this is to start with the second error, find it's source and then you will certainly benefit from the cascade effect to which Website Rob referred above, with a number of problems disappearing at once.

scitrenbaum:

Hi there. I have used the IE stylesheet override, and it works wonderfully for most of my site. However in some cases I have separate stylesheets for certain product pages (named p_180.css, p_211.css, etc). How can I create an IE only stylesheet for these particular pages?You would need to tweak the PHP code in the common/html_header.php file that you that installed for the IE specific stylesheets mod.

kuroi, Website Rob, thank you very much for your reply and the direction to go in. (1)First of all let give a update. I fix the first problem with Intenet Explorer or maybe not fixed it but I did away with zen_lightbox_1.4. For some reason Intenet Explorer would not work on my site with this mod installed.
(2) I have correct these 33 Errors I had except for the 1 Kuroi was talking about that doesn't like "search" as an input type. Any way I just wanted to give an update and say thanks again.