smitty62
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Resolving differences betwen IE 8 & 9
My website looks fine in all browsers including IE8 with the exception of IE9. I have IE8 and don't wish to download IE9 yet because of the compatibility with IE8 (for checking IE7), and I'm afraid of conflict errors if I have both loaded on my desktop.
My site uses a CSS dropdown menus. Why are the dropdown's out of alignment in IE9 and only IE9? is there any easy fix for this? The URL is:
http://insurance.illinois.gov
My site uses a CSS dropdown menus. Why are the dropdown's out of alignment in IE9 and only IE9? is there any easy fix for this? The URL is:
http://insurance.illinois.gov
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I correct the two error, but I agree that they had nothing to do with the alignment. Is there anyway I can fix the alignment problem without effecting the display in all the other browsers that it is working correctly in?
I had hoped that the font size had an influence.
Can you see what compatibility setting is used in IE9 - you may have to force EDGE with a meta header
Can you see what compatibility setting is used in IE9 - you may have to force EDGE with a meta header
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I add <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatibl e" content="IE=8"> to the page, but the person with IE9 in the office is not here so I'll have to wait to test. I used the above tag on my intranet because I knew everyone was suppost to have IE8 installed, but some people unknowingly would have their compatibility mode on (IE7) and not know it, so I added that code to the top of the page after <head> to turn IE7 off if they had it on. I don't know if it will work for IE9, but I'm going to give it a try.
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I think the last link will probably resolve the problem using
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatibl e" content="IE=EmulateIE8" >,
but I won't be able to fully test it until tonight. Thanks for your help.
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatibl
but I won't be able to fully test it until tonight. Thanks for your help.
smitty62--You are welcome!
Hmm using a meta tag was my suggestion too
1 error in CSS
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Finsurance.illinois.gov%2F&profile=css3&usermedium=all&warning=1&vextwarning=&lang=en
which you need to fix
2 errors in html
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Finsurance.illinois.gov%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
which are unlikely to influence the alignment