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Seems to be Stylesheet Issue in IE

01/11/2011 7:10 PM

I have a website that looks great in Safari and most other browsers however IE seems to be placing a halo around active images in the top level nav and on the index page. I have looked at the code again and again, but I can't seem to figure out where I am going wrong. Granted, I am not a seasoned designer by any means, but I am stumped on this one. Would appreciate any help that you could provide. Thanks!!

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Re: Seems to be Stylesheet Issue in IE

01/11/2011 10:26 PM

Difficult to offer advice when I can't see the actual page and style sheet listing. Suggest you check validation first...

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/

If problem still exists, can you post a link to the web page and the style sheet?

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Re: Seems to be Stylesheet Issue in IE

01/13/2011 5:22 PM

Thank you for the advice. I haven't had a chance to really check it out yet, but thought I would send you the addy at least. If you can provide any additional feedback that would be great. www.voigtenterprises.net I used a template and then just modified it for current use. We are slowly building it up and adding new pages. Again, I am not a great designer, but I get by. Thanks again!!

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Re: Seems to be Style-sheet Issue in IE

01/13/2011 9:31 PM

I'm just an amateur web page designer also. What I learned early was that proper definition and validation is important.

I briefly looked at the rendered pages through Firefox (for Ubuntu Linux) and they looked ok to me. The underlying html(?) seems to need some work and so does the style sheet. Per Kaplin's suggestion, you should choose a specific doc type (some level of html, probably not xhtml) and get all your pages & style sheets to pass the formal validation tools. This will give you the best chance of uniform rendering in multiple browsers. However, IE may still require some 'tweaked' parameters to render the page the way you expect.

I won't be able to help with IE problems because my only windoze machine is temporarily out-of-service. It's kind of hibernating and I won't even try to wake(repair) it until spring. Good luck!

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Re: Seems to be Stylesheet Issue in IE

01/12/2011 9:00 AM

IE can be very testy and doesn't render certain CSS properly, that is why on many sites you will notice they have an IF statement that will use a different stylesheet if the user is browsing in IE, definately a pain.

Have you specified a DOCTYPE at the top of your HTML? This changes how certain tags are rendered.

Check this post, Choosing the Best DOCTYPE for Your Site

As mjb1962853 said, we will really need to see the page to troubleshoot it any further.

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Re: Seems to be Stylesheet Issue in IE

01/13/2011 6:43 PM

I think I figured it out. My code was a little off and am trying to fix it now. Still an IE issue, but my code was a little dirty. Anyway I think I finally fixed it!!

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Re: Seems to be Stylesheet Issue in IE

01/13/2011 6:58 PM

Nevermind- that didn't work.

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