dlederman

Thanks very much. Exactly what I needed.

Thank you for the advice and suggestions. I tried the conditional IE comment and it improved things but not enough. I am sure the issue is with IE. The sticky footer was not exactly the look I am after but it may be useful in the future. I took your advice and am eliminating the framesets in favor of divisions. All is working well and the site displays well in IE, at least as I am developing it. One question: using divs I can create a footer with fixed position in the html file for the page. I have an external style sheet that styles, among other things, the look of links. I want the links in the footer to look different from the rest of the page. I have tried to achieve this with inline styling and adding the link attributes to the external style sheet. Neither one works but there must be a way.

First, thanks to everyone who responded last week and for the very helpful input. Here's another question: My site is divided into frames (horizontal 93%/7% split). The bottom (7%) is a menu/navigation bar that stays constant. All works well in IE 8, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. However, when viewed in IE 7 the bottom frame is compressed so that it is too narrow to see the links and in fact is hardly visible at all. IE7 does add a scroll bar at the right, but the effect is ruined and the navigation ability is at best compromised but is really lost. It's important to make this work because a lot of the people I want to reach use IE7. Can anyone suggest a way to eliminate this and get IE 7 to display the site the way it is intended? Obviously, without screwing up the depiction in the other browsers.

Worked great. Thanks.

Turns out the problem was mostly in the doctype. Fortunately I didn't have to get into writing a conditional comment for IE. Thanks for your suggestion and assistance.

Thanks for the validator tip. There were a lot of mistakes, particularly in the doctype. The site now displays nicely in IE, as well as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. You can see the finished product at www.streetwood.com. Thanks again.

I've just finished building my first website and am having issues viewing it correctly in Internet Explorer 7 and 8. I hand-coded the site in html, thanks to the resources on killerwebsites, among others. It looks great when viewed in Google Chrome (which is what I used to develop it), as well as in Firefox and Safari. The problem is with Internet Explorer. The layout is altered and the alignment of images and text is lost. Certain images also don't display correctly. For example, a .gif file that has no border suddenly has one in IE. Is there a way to correct this without making it worse in the other browsers?