On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Ellen Heitman <ellen.heit...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am a web developer taking over the maintenance of my company's site from a > former developer. We recently upgraded to IE 8 and noticed an issue we > hadn't had before. > > If you look at the following page in both IE 6/7 and Firefox, it should look > okay: > > www.pottersignal.com/search_results.aspx > > However, in IE 8 the middle section expands to fill the whole page. Anybody > see what in the CSS could be causing this? I've tried a few adjustments that > don't seem to be working. > > By the way, I know the current architecture of the site leaves a *lot *to be > desired. However, I've been tasked to come in and update/clean up where I > can, but am not able to do a complete overall at the moment. So any > suggestions that work with what we've got right now would be very > appreciated!
The markup of that page has several errors (try running a validator, like the the w3c one: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pottersignal.com%2Fsearch_results.aspx) Most are probably harmless (many will probably disappear simply changing the doctype into HTML instead of XHTML). But the ones related to mismatches in the opening/closing of tags are serious and may cause differences amongst browsers; you should try correcting them. Indeed the difference in the IE8 rendering seems caused by the form element which is opened at line 37 and wrongly closed at line 126. If you close it where more appropriate (~ line 91), IE8 may render the page more in line with the others. Bruno PS: Happy New Year 2010 to all !!! -- Bruno Fassino http://www.brunildo.org/test ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
