IE6 Coding troubles

member-33795 · Jun 22, 2007

Hey

Im having some troubles in IE6 for www.groomgle.com, check it in FF then check IE and you will see an extremely noticable difference.

This is one of a few problems (logins not working! and the commenting isnt working - not xhtml/css related)

Thanks

enlytend · Jun 22, 2007

The doctype you're using

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

is invoking "quirks mode" (aka "compatibility mode") browser rendering.

Quirks mode means that the browser falls back to emulating the way older browsers interpreted the code. Among other things, older versions of IE interpreted the box model (widths and heights, margins and padding on block elements) incorrectly, which is why things don't line up as expected.

Try changing your doctype to this instead:

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

The above version invokes standards mode rendering in IE6 and 7 browsers.

member-33795 · Jun 23, 2007

Thanks so much! Worked great but i still need to fix the other bit!

Thanks

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