I am developing a website in XHTML 1.1/CSS 3.0 and I have a problem with Internet Explorer 9. Each time I change pages from "Home" to "Features" various images flash 'white' before filling in. This 'white flash' occurs each time the page is changed. I have seen numerous stack overflow posts discussing such errors but they seem to be for older versions of IE. The site looks fine in Chrome.
Here is what I've tried so far --
ran XHTML through validator (it passes).
ran CSS Level 3 validator (it passes).
tried setting background color to black.
tried changing CSS include format to import and back again (per previous stack overflow suggestion)
moved from HTML/XHTML Transitional to XHTML Strict
commented out images to identify a specific image or div -- seems that most of them do it.
tried empty Script tag hack (for flash of uninitialized content bug in IE)
tried adding meta tags to change cache settings so browser uses cache.
tried various IE browser-specific meta tags suggested for IE6, IE7, IE8 to try to 'fix' the behavior.
Any thoughts on what I can try next?
Thank you!
The flashing could be a side effect of having multiple layers of background images, including the shadow layer which stretches to fill the viewport. I'd try disabling those effects and seeing if that helps. Who knows how that might be affecting IE drawing the page...
You might find that putting gradient.png on #innerContent instead of #content makes more sense, and in doing that, you you won't need to use multiple BG images on a single element.
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on a website I am working on I have problems with an rendering issue which I can't figure out.
I've already played with margins, positioning, z-indices and so on to get it away but nothing of that helped.
It only occurs in IE8 (under Windows XP, don`t know if on newer OS also). I know IE8 is a bit deprecated, but because the rest of the page is displaying fine with it I would also like to support it, since some of my visitors may have installed it.
If you take a look at the page you can identify the issue very fast when using IE8:
http://kunden.tommy-computer.at/fsv_noetsch/
Here is what the menu headers look like in modern browsers like FF/Chrome/Opera/IE>8:
And here is what they look like in IE8 (wrong):
How can I get rid of it. Please help, can`t figure it out why this happens. Thank you very much !
You are using the new html doctype and I noticed you are also using at least one html 5 element article. IE 8 won't recognize that element, or anything related to html 5. You need to use javascript to fix IE by using a script called html5shiv.
What this will do is inform IE of the new elements so they can be styled.
Im finishing my website and am now in the validation and browser testing stage.
So, my whole website has been converted to html5, as the default theme wasn't. After adding the conditional ie 9 comment to apply the html5shiv.js to browser versions below ie 9, some of the pages render properly and some do not.
Please view this page in Internet Explorer 8 (or ie9 but in version ie 8 from developer mode) to see the broken html5 page: http://www.gizmotrims.com/site/gizmotrims/music-ipods/1-ipod-nano.html
I troubleshooted this issue and wasn't able to find what is actually causing the pages to not render correctly and appear broken. Please note that not all of the pages have this problem, only a few. Its weird because some pages are fine and some aren't.
Could someone help me find this problem so I can finish the development of my site?
The path to js/html5shiv.js does not seem to work. You could change it to ../js/html5shiv.js, but that will probably ruin it for other pages. In this case you are better off using the absolute path (http://www.gizmotrims.com/site/gizmotrims/js/html5shiv.js) or a path relative to the root (/site/gizmotrims/js/html5shiv.js). You could also set a base[href], but that would affect other references as well.
I've been working on a PHP project for University, and as I'm rubbish at PHP I've left the design very simple so I can concentrate on the programming side of things. Now the programming is working I'm working on the design. The site looks fine in Chrome and other webkit browsers but in IE9 it looks awful. The main problems are...
1 - Background image expands the div to the full image size, whereas in webkit is only fills the div size.
2 - Content is not centred, instead it is floated left.
Does anyone know any scripts/hacks I can use to get IE to perform like every other browser? The only thing I'm using at the minute is Modernizr.
You can have a look at the site here if it helps - http://newmedia.leeds.ac.uk/ug10/cs10cwh/pod/index.php.
Modernizr can help, especially if you're using newer things like html5 and css3. Another thing that can help is boilerplate code, I personally like the html5reset.
One particular thing from that is going to help you a lot: if I look at your site in IE it says it goes into Quirks mode, making IE7, 8, and 9 behave... well... quirky :) Place the following meta tag in your head section to improve things for IE:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
You can see what "Browser Mode" and "Document Mode" IE is running in by bringing up the developer toolbar (F12), you can tweak it temporarily for your browsing session to see what happens if document mode is "IE9 standards".
A short update. You may also want to try using w3 validator. One of the errors it gives me for your site:
Line 1, Column 15: Comments seen before doctype. Internet Explorer will
go into the quirks mode.
There are also a few errors on unclosed tags, which can throw off rendering.
What we do is using a seperate .css for the IE versions and in the root we determine the browser and include that .css
So include your normal css for all browsers and for the IE versions include the specific .css file which overwrites the necessary party of the main stylesheet.
Edit: And like Jeroen said, force the IE to render in it's real mode, not some compatible or quirks thing.
This page is being rendered incorrectly by IE 9 (and probably older versions too). The right menu is floating to the bottom of the page. Firefox, Chrome and Safari are rendering it correctly. Other pages in the blog are also being rendered fine by all browsers. I already tried to fire IE 9 Developer Tools (F12) and reduce the width of some divs (such as #main and .columns-inner)... no lucky with this approach, even with extra space the right menu is still rendered at the bottom. So I figure that the problem is in the Blogger auto-generated tags / css for the page content (which I am able to modify). Any CSS gurus out there can point what is wrong?
Cheers,
You have this line in your <head>, which is causing IE9 to render the page in IE7 mode:
<META content=IE=EmulateIE7 http-equiv=X-UA-Compatible>
If you remove this, it renders fine in IE8 and IE9. It still renders poorly in IE7, though.
Edit:
In response to your comment, I am able to replicate the issue with the background no longer being opaque. After some investigation, there is a particular script file being loaded:
http://www.blogger.com/static/v1/jsbin/938506610-ieretrofit.js
If you remove the <meta content='IE=EmulateIE7' http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible'/> on line 4 of the source, and you remove the ieretrofit.js file from line 1471 of the source, the page should render correctly in IE9.
Since the ieretrofit.js file appears to be generated by Google, you might want to ask them about it. If you would like to disable it JUST for IE9, and allow it to continue for IE8 and below, you should take a closer look at line 1471 of the source. Here is a snippet (it's quite long, this starts around character #2275):
'\74!--[if IE]\76\74script
The !--[if IE] there is part of an IE conditional comment. You can change that snippet like so, and it will still target IE8 and below, without affecting IE9:
'\74!--[if lte IE 8]\76\74script
Let me know if you have any further issues!
The page has 104 validation errors — I’d start by fixing those if I were you.
Almost certainly it is because the page is invalid. Also, I really would think about starting again with this page as it is overly complex markup.
Guys. Figured it out (with great help from andyb and Paul D.)
The validator pointed to some unpaired </div> tags that I removed. Now it is working flawless.
i am making a menu for my school assignment and it needs to work in both IE and firefox.
I am done the menu and it works perfectly in firefox, but i am having trouble getting it to display properly in IE
A part can be found over here: http://tutudragon3.info/ie-trying.php
When i click the home image in firefox, a dropdown sort of thing pops-up with 2 images with text "d" and "d". In firefox, there is no space between those dropdown images, but when i try it in IE, I see a small blank space between them.
how could i fix this (delete that space) please. I tried many different things but it didn't work.
Using IE8 by the way.
Before worrying about any specific bugs:
Use a Doctype that triggers standards mode, as quirks mode inconsistencies are a nightmare to deal with. If in doubt, use HTML 4.01 Strict: http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
Deal with machine detectable errors
If you have done the things David mentions, and still see some differences, you might want to take a look at ie7.js, it is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser.
I don't find any problem in IE7. But if you are having the problem, try giving display:block; to the <A> and <IMG> tags. The problem should vanish.