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Old 03-29-2009, 08:43 PM IE display issues
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Hi folks, first of all, let me say Thanks for the help with my centering issue.

I'm back with a different issue.

My site http://RenosBestJobs.com when viewed in FireFox looks good, you can zoom in and everything stays where it's supposed to.

However, in IE, things get bigger or smaller as needed but the positioning of text on the tabs gets, well, all funked up.

And of course, I've been trying to get it right for a while instead of coming here first.

Any help would be appreciated.

The website was purchased not self-built. I knew there would be some issues but not this many.

Thanks in advance.
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Old 03-30-2009, 10:53 AM Re: IE display issues
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Hey Reno
So, I often run into this problem too, especially since I program mostly on Safari :P
I am not absolutely positive about my answer, but this is pretty much what I understand.
Each browser is set up differently (plus each screen with pixels and resolutions) which really messes things up. So there are a few ways to approach this.

Firstly, could you show us your CSS? sometimes playing around with that can help (for example, sometimes try use %'s instead of px's... or mess around with not using (or using) absolute positioning). The only problem is then it may stop working on FireFox.

The second option is much more time-consuming, but it will work much better. You can basically save a copy of your CSS as it is... and make a new copy which you edit it so that it aligns and works with IE or whatever other browser, then use something like a Javascript Catch E to find out what browser the visitor is using when acessing your site, and with an if..else statement have them use the corresponding CSS file.

Another thing you can try is making sure that at the top of the page is a W3 authentication. (That looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">)

In the future, specify with your designer that the design works with all browsers
I hope I've helped you out a bit.
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Old 03-30-2009, 10:59 AM Re: IE display issues
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Yea like Zoltar say, use the right doctype. Sometimes text looks better if you use "size=1" 2, 3, 4, etc etc.
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:11 AM Re: IE display issues
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Zoltar, thanks for the tip! If you click on the link below and then scroll ALL the way down, you'll find my Main.css file.

I kinda like the if-else idea but yeah, it might take some time.

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Frenosbestjobs.com&profi le=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1〈=en

Again, thanks for your help.
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Old 03-31-2009, 12:41 AM Re: IE display issues
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Cross browser compatability is definately a consideration that must be taken into account for. I haven't even gotten into some of the languages that are are coded for your site, and I know that!

It's your hard earned money and you payed someone for professional work, so i would be sure that you get that professional work.

I would contact whoever you paid to make this website and have them fix the problems, or else!
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Old 03-31-2009, 02:18 AM Re: IE display issues
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Thanks T. I just sent an email to the vendor that essentially echoed your statement.

We'll see what happens.

Still evaluating the if-else statement. Any ideas as to where it should go?

TIA
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Old 03-31-2009, 09:54 AM Re: IE display issues
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The if-else with javascript is just not necessary. What you need to do is use conditional comments and a separate CSS file for IE only that contains JUST the rules necessary to make IE behave.

You can read up on all of IE's many bugs here: www.positioniseverything.net
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Old 03-31-2009, 09:22 PM Re: IE display issues
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Thanks Lady.

So far, I've found that if I use:
  1. <!--[if lte IE 6]>
  2. <style>
  3. iemain.css
  4. </style>
  5. <![endif]-->
or:
  1. <!--[if IE 7]>
  2. <style>
  3. iemain.css
  4. </style>
  5. <![endif]-->
or similar, that should correct the issue, once I have made iemain.css with only the programming that is needed to fix the issues.

Where do I put the conditional comments?

If I can think of anything else, I'll be back.
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Old 04-01-2009, 10:51 AM Re: IE display issues
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The conditional comments go into the <head> section of your page, and they should look like this:

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