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A Browser Specific Problems text does not appear in IE 7 Lawrence Krubner 05-31-2008
Posted by Lawrence Krubner on May 31, 2008, 5:16 pm
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 Please use FireFox to check out this page:

http://www.cyberbitten.com/

Do you see the text near the top that reads "Be a part of the movement!" ?

Okay, now go look at the same page in IE 7 (possibly also IE 6, I don't
know).

The block of text is gone, yes? I can't figure out why.

I've validated this page, save for the Flash. I have asked our Flash
programmer to get back to us with some valid HTML for the Flash. Aside
from the HTML for the Flash video player, the page is valid. So why
won't the intro text appear? It appears fine in FireFox. What am I missing?

cross posted to alt.html

Posted by BootNic on May 31, 2008, 6:30 pm
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> Please use FireFox to check out this page:
>
> http://www.cyberbitten.com/
>
> Do you see the text near the top that reads "Be a part of the
> movement!" ?
>
> Okay, now go look at the same page in IE 7 (possibly also IE 6, I
> don't know).
>
> The block of text is gone, yes? I can't figure out why.
>
> I've validated this page, save for the Flash. I have asked our Flash
> programmer to get back to us with some valid HTML for the Flash. Aside
> from the HTML for the Flash video player, the page is valid. So why
> won't the intro text appear? It appears fine in FireFox. What am I
> missing?
>
> cross posted to alt.html

Remove:
<!--Header //-->

Putting something before the doctype may through IE into quirks mode,
which would also be the reason it does not center in IE.

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BootNic Saturday May 31, 2008 6:29 PM
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*Ancient Chinese Proverbs*

Posted by Lawrence Krubner on June 1, 2008, 3:00 pm
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BootNic wrote:
>
>> Please use FireFox to check out this page:
>>
>> http://www.cyberbitten.com/
>>
>> Do you see the text near the top that reads "Be a part of the
>> movement!" ?
>>
>> Okay, now go look at the same page in IE 7 (possibly also IE 6, I
>> don't know).
>>
>> The block of text is gone, yes? I can't figure out why.
>>
>> I've validated this page, save for the Flash. I have asked our Flash
>> programmer to get back to us with some valid HTML for the Flash. Aside
>> from the HTML for the Flash video player, the page is valid. So why
>> won't the intro text appear? It appears fine in FireFox. What am I
>> missing?
>>
>> cross posted to alt.html
>
> Remove:
> <!--Header //-->
>
> Putting something before the doctype may through IE into quirks mode,
> which would also be the reason it does not center in IE.


That fixed the problem. Thanks very much.

Posted by Lawrence Krubner on June 1, 2008, 3:02 pm
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BootNic wrote:
>
>> Please use FireFox to check out this page:
>>
>> http://www.cyberbitten.com/
>>
>> Do you see the text near the top that reads "Be a part of the
>> movement!" ?
>>
>> Okay, now go look at the same page in IE 7 (possibly also IE 6, I
>> don't know).
>>
>> The block of text is gone, yes? I can't figure out why.
>>
>> I've validated this page, save for the Flash. I have asked our Flash
>> programmer to get back to us with some valid HTML for the Flash. Aside
>> from the HTML for the Flash video player, the page is valid. So why
>> won't the intro text appear? It appears fine in FireFox. What am I
>> missing?
>>
>> cross posted to alt.html
>
> Remove:
> <!--Header //-->
>
> Putting something before the doctype may through IE into quirks mode,
> which would also be the reason it does not center in IE.

That worked, so I'm wondering how I might have found this out on my own.
Is there a validator somewhere that would flag these kinds of issues as
potential problems?

Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on May 31, 2008, 8:07 pm
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Lawrence Krubner wrote:

> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html

> cross posted to alt.html

No it wasn't. Maybe multi-posted, but not cross-posted.
<http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#xpost>

> Please use FireFox to check out this page:
>
> http://www.cyberbitten.com/
>
> Do you see the text near the top that reads "Be a part of the
> movement!" ?
>
> Okay, now go look at the same page in IE 7 (possibly also IE 6, I
> don't know).

Sorry, I don't have IE, but as BootNic says, fix your DOCTYPE area.

You also should check this:
<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyberbitten.com%2F>
This page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!
Result: Failed validation, 12 Errors

and
<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css21&warning=0&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyberbitten.com%2F>
Sorry! We found the following errors (8)

and
<http://tekrider.net/html/doctype.php>

and
<http://tekrider.net/html/fontsize.php>

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-bts
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