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Ie 6, 7 and 8(Compatibility mode) issues

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Here is one link that has a few fixes I used to use: http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001515.html

Bryan McLemore 2009-11-20 20:28:55

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There are more conflicts and non-implementations than one should ever have to know. If you write standards-compliant websites, your websites will not work in IE6 or IE7. Most people special case IE6 and IE7 with special stylesheets to fix the breakage.

The IE6 PNG fix is especially common.

Stefan Kendall 2009-11-20 20:29:44

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Here's a good overview of IE related CSS bugs.

Also, if you're not doing it already I strongly suggest you use a CSS reset (here's an example of one CSS reset there are others out there e.g. YUI CSS Reset) - bringing all browsers down to the same baseline and then working up will elminate a lot of inconsistencies without having to track them down individual and hunting for causes if they later appear.

FinnNk 2009-11-20 20:33:57

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By specifying what type of HTML document you are using at the top of your document you are taking the browser out of quirks mode. Now, the newer browsers are much more standards compliant and therefore easier to code with. Here are some tips that might help you out:

Use DIV instead of TABLE for layout
Watch out for Document Object Model or DOM differences between browsers
Here is a site with CSS compatibility info: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html
Run your code through W3C's Validator
Instead of W3C's free validator, consider purchasing a HTML validator which you can run on your machine. In my opinion a programmer wouldn't run a C# program without compiling, and web development shouldn't be done without some sort of validation program. It will save you oodles of time.

Sorry I can't post more links. Stack overflow will only allow me to post one.

milican 2009-11-20 20:38:53

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To find out whether you are correctly picking up Standards Mode, enter:

javascript:alert(document.compatMode)

in the browser's address bar whilst your page is loaded. If you get ‘CSS1Compat’ you're sorted. If you get ‘BackCompat’, you're in quirks. This can happen in IE when you've put some stray bytes before the <!DOCTYPE declaration, for example a spurious <?xml declaration.

I tried to find list of known issues with ie6 and ie7

It would be quite long. Yes, even in Standards Mode. Anything in particular?

bobince 2009-11-20 21:10:07

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