Strange issue with IE 7

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by jmforesite, Oct 31, 2006.

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    With the release of IE7 our site is now incorrectly displaying this page. I do not know what is causing of the problem, but the site works fine in IE6, firefox 1.5 and 2.0, safari and netscape

    http://www.rentonww.com/Boots-c2-p2.html

    If anyone has any suggestions I would certainly appreciate some ideas here.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    jmforesite, Oct 31, 2006 IP
  2. KLB

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    Actually the top menu is wrapping weird in Firefox. I tried using W3C's HTML validator to isolate out your problem, but it returned 1549 validation errors for your page (the most I have EVER seen on a single page) making it nearly impossible to isolate out the exact cause of your problem. In scrolling through the list of errors I did notice you were missing one or more closing DIV tags and maybe some other required closing tags.

    My advice is to first go through all of your code and replace all instances of "&" in your URLs with "&". This will eliminate the vast majority of validation errors, making it easier to find the error causing you problems. Your next step can be to revalidate your page against W3C's HTML validator at http://validator.w3.org/ and whittle down your validation errors until you can find the exact cause of your problem.

    Ironically, this is the first time I had to tell someone to validate their code to fix a display issue in IE, but IE7 is intended to more strictly adhere to W3C HTML and CSS specifications, which means some bad code will now cause problems in IE7. The only solution is for developers to clean up their code.
     
    KLB, Oct 31, 2006 IP