help with IE

[eternalearth888]

Okay, so for some reason, on certain computers, the IE version of our home page is cluttered/messy and simply is not fitting properly. However, on other computers, the IE version of the site works perfectly.

Firefox however, works perfectly, regardless.

Is it the IE updated version, or is something with the coding? Please help!

Sincerely,
Maria Deslis

http://www.shazbots.org

[Vpr99]

Internet Explorer is a pain in the side of web designers everywhere. The reason parts of your home page dont work is because of an unfixed double margin bug. This only affects Internet Explorer 6.0, not IE7. The reason it looks good on some, and not on others is the different versions of IE. I am having similar problems with our website. They are not difficult to solve, but the are very time consuming. The reason that most of your content boxes are changing place is that their margins are larger than the defined area. This is caused by an unfixed Internet Explorer 6.0 bug, where a floated object will double its margins. There is a very easy workaround for this, however. Due to another unfixed IE 6.0 bug, we can make a style that only IE6 will read. That is the * html style. For example, say we have a style here:

#content {
  float:left;
  margin-right:20px;
}

In any browser but IE6, it will display correctly, but in IE there will be 20 pixels of right margin, instead of 15. This can be solved by adding an identical style directly below that one, with the prefix * html. Only IE will read this style.

#content {
  float:left;
  margin-right:20px;
}
* html #content {
  margin-right:10px;
}

With this, it should display properly. Be sure to remember that the IE6 Style must remain under the regular style in the stylesheet.
I hope this is useful.
-Eric, Team 159

[eternalearth888]

Thank for the help! I used it, modified it a bit, and it worked! Thank you again for helping me and taking the time to help me figure things out.

You know how you work on something so long, everything just becomes a blur and you can't figure out what's going on? Lol, I guess that's what happened with me.

Thank you again!

[Vpr99]

Glad to be of service
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