jQuery Tabs in IE7

[PhilipGrey]

I've been working on www.ywamburtigny.com for a while now and i'm having some significant problems that i've found after checking out the code in ie. firefox and safari display the tabs on the front page sufficiently, but i get an explosion and a half when i view it in ie. in other words, the styles aren't displaying correctly and there is zero functionality. ie8 offers a subdued functionality version of the tabs.

any ideas of what's up? i've tried various fixes for ie but i've yet to find one that works.

thanks so much
philip

[Fumigator]

Looking at the page source I'm surprised it works anywhere! What a mess ;)

The illustration is sweet though.

[PhilipGrey]

should have mentioned its a wordpress install, so there's a lot of plugins throwing in some ugly overhead from that.

any ideas?

[PhilipGrey]

i've narrowed it down a bit. it's seems to be due to all the contents of my tabs being loaded into the first tab because ie 6/7 misinterpret the links as calls to the ajax functionality of jquery. this is detailed here:

http://ad20.ezyserver.se/jquerytabs.aspx

however, i can't seem to port over the fix to my code correctly. originally when implemented jquery ui tabs i had to make a tweak to allow multiple tabs to be on a page by using:

$(document).ready(function(){
$("#tabs").tabs();
$(".tabs").tabs();

});

instead of simply
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#tabs").tabs();
})

therefore i'm wondering how i go about adding the functionality that the fix talks about in the source code there

[Fumigator]

At first glance I couldn't make out what that fix is doing but it seems a little bit crazy. I'm still new to jQuery so sorry I can't be of any help.