[thelist] IE HTML help

Scott Brady dsbrady at gmail.com
Sat Jul 10 12:36:42 CDT 2010


The CSS is in a style sheet.  I try to avoid "conditional" stylehseets
unless I absolutely have to.  In this case, it wasn't necessary, since it
was the missing doctype that was the problem.

Scott

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Nan Harbison <nan at nanharbison.com> wrote:

> I don't see any references to CSS at all on the source of this page. Do you
> know about this?
>
> http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200612/internet_explorer_and_the_css_b
> ox_model/<http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200612/internet_explorer_and_the_css_b%0Aox_model/>
>
> You should do a conditional style sheet for IE, the way this article
> explains.
> Nan
>
>
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> Subject: [thelist] IE HTML help
>
> This is really frustrating (you probably guessed that when you saw "IE" in
> the subject line).  I'm helping a friend out with a site he's working on
> (and by "helping" I mean "he's paying me for this") and I'm mostly done.
> But, I'm running into a few quirks in the look of the page in IE 7 & 8.
>
> First, the site:  http://ww.divineoutdoors.com/  [you should only see that
> annoying splash page once per session]
>
> It looks fine in other browsers, but IE puts two small vertical gaps in the
> layout.  I've tried just about everything I can think of an was hoping for
> a
> little guidance on getting it to look right in IE along with the others.
>
> Oh, and yes, I know it's a table layout, which I'm not thrilled with.  He
> gave it to me sliced up that way.  Last night, I tried going down the road
> of doing it all with CSS, but ran into a similar problem (I'm guessing IE's
> box model is STILL broken).
>
> So, I'd appreciate if anyone could spot any obvious things I'm missing (all
> the widths and heights look right).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Scott
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