menu does not show in IE, yikes! 2

[Trusts]

hi all,

I set up an example of the problem, the URL to view is:

http://www.testthishere.com/phone/members

In Firefox it looks fine - the menu appears.

in IE, it doesn't appear. Actually it sort of appears - if you move the mouse around the white space words from the menu will appear, and also there are bars on the right that are part of the menu. But that's it.

Was wondering if someone could View Source and give me a clue what to do?

The look of the whole thing is adapted from a Wordpress template - it's meant to be an extension of a site that is built in Wordpress. I took the CSS structure out of the WP template - that is the reason for all the nested divs.

Thanks,
KB

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You have no DOCTYPE and your CSS doesn't validate.

My suggestions:

1) Put in place a complete and valid DOCTYPE.
2) Fix any HTML validation errors.
3) Fix any CSS validation errors.

Then, if you still have a problem, come back and ask for help.

Non-validating code in quirks mode is just not worth the hassle of debugging.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[johnwm]

Looks like you are using the Artisteer template generator which is producing some horribly complicated and convoluted code for a simple page.

After you have used Dan's fixes you might try:
1 Using the Artisteer help page:

http://www.artisteer.com/?p=forums

2. Better yet, learn and understand CSS so you can write your own HTML and CSS under your own control. Start with

http://htmldog.com/

and

http://www.w3schools.com/

3. To get specific problems resolved here, make sure you put up a link to the minimum page (with minimum CSS) that displays the problem. That will help us avoid the time-consuming search through the 1685 lines in your style.css file.

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[Trusts]

BillyRayPreachersSon and johnwm:

My client confirmed - it's an Artisteer template. It validated on CSS and XHTML, but was missing a modern DOCTYPE. Once I put that in - it worked in IE!

Thanks for the help.

KB

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

It validated on CSS and XHTML, but was missing a modern DOCTYPE.

No, it did NOT validate on CSS, so presumably you have fixed that since I pointed it out (at least one invalid thing in the CSS was use of the single line style comments beginning with "//").

Once I put that in - it worked in IE!

I'm guessing you don't care about IE 6, though, which a lot of big businesses still use. It looks pretty bad still.

Anyway - it's good you got it all up and running for other IE browsers.

Dan



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[Trusts]

Dan,

I fixed it on the client's site - not on the sample that you are looking at. Thanks!