Display issue in IE, fine in FF

[mortz]

I won't even pretend to know what I'm doing. I'm just trying to update a few things on our company's website. We implemented live chat and some new graphics to accomodate our banner.

We use two main index files (one sorts by category and the other by manufacturer).

Originally these two files along with every single product page referenced the banner code from a javascript file named: header.js

This is fine in firefox but IE isn't too thrilled with it and does something fairly strange (at least to me).

Here's a link to the problem (open in IE): http://www.alamomotorsports.com/act/act.html

Here is the Java code

<div id="header_container">
  <div id="header">
    <div id="header_lh_cell"><a href="http://www.alamomotorsports.com"><img src="http://www.alamomotorsports.com/images/AMSTopper.jpg" alt="Jump to the Alamo Motorsports Homepage" /></a></div>
    <div id="header_center_cell">Orders over $150<br /><span class="bam">Ship Free!</span>*<br />
                                 <img src="http://www.alamomotorsports.com/images/multicard_bk_allt.gif" alt="Alamo Motorsports accepts Visa, Mastercard, and American Express" /></div>
    <div id="header_rh_cell" class="header_footer_links">
      Customer Support:<br />
      <span class="bam">800-880-0960</span><br />
      <form> 
        <input type="button" value="Email Us!" onClick="window.open('/emailus.html','mywindow','width=600,height=500')"> 
      </form>
    </div>

Also:

document.writeln("<div id=\"header_container\">  <div id=\"header\">    <div id=\"header_lh_cell\"><a href=\"http://www.alamomotorsports.com\"><img src=\"http://www.alamomotorsports.com/images/AMSTopper.jpg\" alt=\"Jump to the Alamo Motorsports Homepage\" /></a></div>    <div id=\"header_center_cell\">Orders over $150<br /><span class=\"bam\">Ship Free!</span>*<br />                                 <img src=\"http://www.alamomotorsports.com/images/multicard_bk_allt.gif\" alt=\"Alamo Motorsports accepts Visa, Mastercard, and American Express\" /></div>    <div id=\"header_rh_cell\" class=\"header_footer_links\">Customer Support:<br /><span class=\"bam\">800-880-0960</span><br /><form> <input type=\"button\" value=\"Email Us!\" onClick=\"window.open('/emailus.html','mywindow','width=600,height=500')\"> </form></div>    <div id=\"header_menu\">      <ul id=\"category\">        <li><a href=\"http://www.alamomotorsports.com/indexcat.html\">Shop By<br />Category</a></li>      </ul>      <ul id=\"manufacturer\">        <li><a href=\"http://www.alamomotorsports.com/indexman.html\">Shop By<br />Manufacturer</a></li>      </ul>      <ul id=\"info\">        <li><h2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />Info</h2>        <ul>          <li><a href=\"http://www.alamomotorsports.com/contact_info.html\">Contact Us</a></li>          <li><a href=\"http://www.alamomotorsports.com/blowout.html\">Blowout Sale</a></li>          <li><a href=\"http://www.alamomotorsports.com/disclaim_shipping.htm\">Our Policies</a></li>          <li><a href=\"http://www.alamomotorsports.com/links.html\">Links</a></li>          <li><a href=\"http://www.alamomotorsports.com/most_popular.html\">Most Popular</a></li>        </ul>        </li>      </ul>      <ul id=\"showcart\">        <li><a href=\"http://www.cartserver.com/sc/cart.cgi?item=a-2309&amp;view.x=1\">Show My<br />Shopping Cart</a></li>      </ul>      <ul id=\"search\">        <li><form method=\"get\" action=\"http://www.alamomotorsports.com/cgi/search.pl\">                  <h2><label for=\"fdse_TermsEx\" >Search for: </label>                  <input name=\"Terms\" id=\"fdse_TermsEx\" />                  <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Go\"> </h2>                </form>        </li>      </ul>    </div><!--header_menu-->  </div><!--header--></div><!--header_container--><div id=\"content_container\"><div id=\"content\">");

Thank you for help in advance.

[Oneilius]

I see the error in IE (" '_gat' is undefined"), but when I try to open the IE debugger, I'm told the source file isn't available from my location. Can you look in your JavaScript files for that page and find the reference to _gat and post the function where that variable is being referenced?

[styks1987]

_gat is part of google analytics core.


Mike