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wordpress HTML5 site falling apart in IE7

Hi,

I am new to HTML5 and have installed the latest version of wordpress which they seem to use HTML5 on. I have started to develop the site here....

http://www.bluebean.org.uk/sites/bottomsup/

However when i view it in IE it fall apart. I have gone through and removed some unnecessary CSS and tried to get it sorted but im not sure if its because of my lack of knowledge on HTML5.

Please can you have a look and recommend how i fix this.

Thanks,

Andrew

Jason C. Levine

What percentage of the visitors are still using IE7?

Scott Fell

2nd that emotion! I wouldn't worry about ie7 or below. Google has already stopped support of ie8. http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33864

Andy6350

ASKER

It works fine in IE9 but even IE8 it falls apart. I didnt want to restrict too many users as i know alot of people will still be using IE8

Jason C. Levine

Padas,

Great minds think alike ;)

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Andrew,

As you may have gathered by now, IE7 is not really a modern browser. If you are designing a site where you expect a large audience to still be forced on IE7 (say a large corporation or university) then obviously you need to worry about compatibility and that would mean NOT using HTML5 at all.

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nanharbison

Use a conditional style sheet for IE 7, suggestion #3 on this page, plus it explains why the site falls apart in IE:
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200612/internet_explorer_and_the_css_box_model/

Andy6350

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Thanks for all your recommendations, i will try clear up all the W3C issue and go from there.

Cheers