Hi Everybody.

I have a strange issue. The website that I am working on is just still pre alpha. I am just trying to get the look and template down before I start throwing a bunch of content and stuff like wordpress into the mix. I fealt that I had made good headway with the design (I am NOT a designer that has been my biggest struggle) and I even had it working in all the browsers that I tested. with the exception of one bug in IE7. I had been testing this locally from another computer with IE7 on the same network as the server (yes it is my server) However when I finally got a DDns accout and made my server accessable from the outside I noticed something horrible. The computers with IE7 at my school just display a big gray page. they display NOTHING else. 2 different computers connected locally display the page fine except for one clearing bug. I then went onto browsershots and IE7 and IE8 both display the gray page there too. I am stuck any help is appreaciated.

The url is ourhouse.thruhere.net/dad2 Thanks
BTW the WISIWYG editor on these forums is acting strange in my Firefox 3. There is no cursor and I can't go backwords in the text. To fix any spelling errors I would have to erase the whole thing and start over from the error on. so sorry

Ok I have got no responses so I am going to assume that I was too wordy (I tend to have that problem) and my post was hard to understand. Here is a simplified version.

A website that I am designing here Has a problem in IE7. However not all IE7's. When I view if from the computers that I control (ie in my network, the same network as the server) they display fine. When viewed from other computers (ie public school or browsershots) IE7 displays a big blank gray page. Why?

This line is your problem...

<!--[if lt IE 7]> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie6.css"> <! [endif]-->

The problem is that you have a space at this part <! [endif]-->

Remove that space so the line will read...

<!--[if lt IE 7]> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie6.css"> <![endif]-->

I just made that change and checked it with browsershots.org. It does work now, but I don't understand why would that affect IE7 if my Conditional comment was less than IE7 and why only on some browsers (the external ones)?

Thanks so much. IE is such a strange beast. It would have taken me ages to figure that one out.

Agreed IE is very odd sometimes. I noticed that this problem arises in the new ie8 pre release too. I may try and find the place where you post bug reports for IE8.

The reason is that the CC was malformed, so it never ended, and thus spanned the whole page... I think...

That makes sense. I guess there sometimes is a method behind IE's madness. I still don't know why it worked on my local IE7 though.

IE7 still reads it as a conditional comment; so even though it was directed at IE6, it was still read. It saw everything as a comment, and didn't know when to start parsing HTML again.

Right I got that part. However, The computer running IE7 that I have access to didn't exhibit the same behavior. The only thing that I can think of that would make that computer different from the other computers running IE7 is that it was connected locally (the same network as the server).