Internet Explorer Format Help - Page 2

shinydarkrai94 · 04-19-2011, 07:48 AM

Quirky mode seems to be working for me better :S. Here's a picture of my site when I use a doctype: http://i986.photobucket.com/albums/a...i94/error1.jpg.

I just don't understand it @_@ the article you gave me only had small differences between strict and quirky. This is a rather large difference lol.

Relevant code:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>

  <head>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <meta name="description" content="AV Avenue is a K-12 Classroom Technology Specialists company. We provide audio/video equipment sales, systems installations and service of existing systems.">
    <meta name="keywords" content="av avenue, audio, video, audio visual, classroom, education, installation, smartboard, k-12">

    <title>AV Avenue</title>

  </head>

shinydarkrai94 · 04-19-2011, 08:17 AM

Figured it out

. Apparently, I validated my code before I put in a doctype which caused some validation errors when I put in the doctype (like <img /> instead of <img>). Also, a lot of my css was bad which was causing another large part of the problem. Thanks everyone for the links to the doctypes though, I've learned a lot

.

Wojjie · 04-19-2011, 04:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SB65

In the absence of a doctype IE will display in "quirks mode" - here's an explanation.

Thanks, I forgot the mode it defaulted to, I just remember to always use one.

teedoff · 04-19-2011, 08:30 PM

Try using the html 4.01 doctype. I validated with your code and this doctype and returned no errors in validation.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Quote:

validation errors when I put in the doctype (like <img /> instead of <img>).

Yes depending on which doctype and whether its strict or transitional, tags have to be closed in certain ways. Which is why I suggested, with your current code, that you use html4.01.

You shouldnt say quirks mode works for me. lol You should ALWAYS use a valid doctype from the start.

shinydarkrai94 · 04-20-2011, 03:02 AM

Yes, everything is working now. Earlier today I validated my html and css and it fixed my IE problem. Thanks again to everyone who helped me out with this

. Greatly appreciated.

hotelscyprus · 04-20-2011, 07:06 AM

Shiny...also you can check your website on various browsers through browsershots.org. It will show how your website will be on several browsers. This too helps you to fix your code.