WordPress not rendering correctly in IE8

Here is my site: minneapolis carpet installation
It seems to work fine in all the browsers except IE8. Only the index page is giving me a problem. Does anybody have a fix for this?

My carpet installer is starting to get impatient with me.

 

One solution would be to add this line at the beginning of your functions.php

<?php if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"MSIE 8")) {
header("X-UA-Compatible: IE=7");} ?>

 

Thanks Argentum,
I am not a designer. Here is how the file starts out:
<?php
/**
* Main WordPress API
*

There is a lot more code and it ends with "?>"
so where would I insert it?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Dave

 

Hey David.. You must paste this piece of code at the beginning, just before all the code you already have. Save and upload. Let me know if it worked.


<?php if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"MSIE 8")) {
header("X-UA-Compatible: IE=7");} ?>

<?php
/**
* Main WordPress API
*
?>

 

No that didn't work. It displays an error message now though.

 

Ok, can you try pasting the code in header.php instead of functions.php.

This fix really depends on the theme u are using and the plugins you have active. do you have the latest wordpress version installed?

if nothing of that works.. you can then try this other fix:

(Edit: for some reason I can't post links)

 

that didn't work either.
Is this the file I should be editing: /home/minncarp/public_html/wp-content/themes/carpetinstall/header.php
It was the only place I found header.php. I was editing functions.php in the includes folder.
Thanks again for trying.

 

You need to edit the functions.php of your theme, not the functions of wordpress.

Let's see if it works.

 

You can also try the meta..Paste this in your header.php;

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

 

Argentum - I should have mentioned that I tried it in both functions.php files and it didn't work.
Optimeramera - I tried adding the meta tag and that didn't work either.

Thanks to both of you. Any other suggestions?....
Dave