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ok in Firefox but not IE

Thread began 9/09/2009 10:15 am by question382438 | Last modified 9/10/2009 9:29 am by Jason Byrnes | 1950 views | 3 replies |

9/09/2009 10:15 am | #1 question382438

ok in Firefox but not IE

menu ok in firefox but not IE, specifically IE8. Not sure if not working with other IE.

The menu doesn't look pretty only because I've been playing with the format to fix the problem. Here's the link:

forumparentyrmain.asp

Also, there's an extra unwanted line above the menu. How do I get rid of the line?

9/09/2009 12:46 pm | #2 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

The problem is caused by the doctype tag:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

It is mssing the link to the DTD to use, so IE is going into Quirks mode. In Quirks mode, IE uses the 5.5 rendering engine.

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

So that it will use the correct DTD.

9/09/2009 5:24 pm | #3 question382438

Thx. The code fixed the IE problem.

BTW, I did find the solution to remove the unwanted blank line. In DW, block edit I made the top margin to zero. Previously, it was blank because I was following the instruction for centering.

Thx again.

9/10/2009 9:29 am | #4 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

Excellent, glad to hear it is working.

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