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A web-page that appears well on IE6 but not on IE9

Hi.

I have a web-page made in HTML 4.01 transitional and CSS. It appears well on IE6 but it doesn't appear well on IE9. Is it possible to make appear well on IE9?

The web is on a private server, so I can't give you the URL to see it. I'm just finding information on how to solve it for myself.

I tryied to add an html comment at the beggining of the HTML to force mode quircks but it doesn't seem to solve the issue.

Thank you.

James Rodgers

It appears well on IE6 but it doesn't appear well on IE9.

The web is on a private server, so I can't give you the URL to see it. I'm just finding information on how to solve it for myself.

you are asking us to help with visuals without being able to provide access to the source.
first off, stop supporting IE6, if you must support IE6 then look into IE conditional includes, then design for IE9 and fix for IE6

gplana

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Sorry, I think you haven't understand. It's the opposite. I want to make it look well on IE9, it doesn't matter if it looks well on IE6, but currently it looks well only on IE6.

I read something about quircks mode which seems it can make IE9 behave as IE6, but it doesn't... or is there another technique to make IE9 makeup pages as IE6 ?

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James Rodgers

doesn't matter if it looks well on IE6, but currently it looks well only on IE6.

then it was designed for IE6, how old is the site?
if it was designed for IE6 you will spend more time trying to fix it than rebuild it

post the page code and some screen shots because with something to review it is just guessing

gplana

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In fact I have changed some CSS to fix this. But this gave me the clue. Thanks.