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Website displays badly in IE 8, but works fine in other browsers

Answer 1

+1 A:

Your doctype

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" ...

is Transitional. Change it to strict and that should show improvement. I tried your website in FF and IE8 (standard mode (non quirk mode)) and it was working fine. Somehow in a machine where you are not able to see your website properly, IE8 is set to work in quirks mode. By setting your DOCTYPE to strict we can prevent that to certain extent. HTH

Pradeep 2010-10-20 10:11:39

Done, no improvement as far as the image goes (you can find the image on `http://test.rfinvestments.co.za/Splurb2.png`

Logan Young 2010-10-20 10:31:48

Answer 2

A:

You should add the following tag to your head tag in order to tell IE8 to not use compatibility mode when displaying your site:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

Jonas H 2010-10-20 10:17:09

Added the meta, no improvement (but I'm not viewing in compatibility)

Logan Young 2010-10-20 10:33:07

I think this will fix the issue seen by your dad, not the other issue. And it will prevent future users from seeing the site in compatibility mode by default.

Jonas H 2010-10-20 10:43:21

Answer 3

+2 A:

The url to the image in ie.css is wrong.

It should be:

background: url("Images/Splurb2.png");

(note the capital S)

geoff 2010-10-20 10:59:56

thanks a lot :) Cross-browser compatibility is such a pain... although you were right, I checked ie8.css as well and found the same problem. Fixed and all is 100% now, thanks

Logan Young 2010-10-20 12:57:39

@Logan - Yes, it doesn't make life easy at all.

geoff 2010-10-20 13:39:00

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