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So I have a problem I can’t figure out elsewhere.  Damn CSS, my page works fine in IE8, FF, Chrome, etc.  IE8 compatibility mode(IE7) on the other had eliminates all my content.

Any CSS gurus out there care to help a brother out?  😊

firebug lite to the rescue
Its just a javascript bookmarklet with most of firebugs functionality

Might help find the cause
(I would have a look, but only recently installed windows, and haven’t installed IE7/8 as I’ve not used IE at all yet lol)

stripped down, added and trouble shot until fixed.

I got so sick of cross browser compatibility that I stopped doing layouts with pure css and started using 960gs or custom versions of it. It makes things sooooo much easier.

Nice link, i was in the middle of checking out http://www.blueprintcss.org/; have you tested that one?

Have not tried it. If you do though, give me your thoughts on it.

Hikrguy, I hope you don’t use tables for layout 😛
I find it much quicker with CSS then anything else
Maybe you should try a CSS framework or basic structure templates (such as these)

You shouldn’t need a CSS framework to write decent CSS that works across all browsers. It really isn’t that hard, as long as you ignore Internet Explorer 6 (which everybody should, no matter how many people use it).

I wasn’t saying he needs a CSS framework to write decent CSS… Just that it might make it faster for him to develop… Just like you don’t need CI to write a decent PHP app, but it makes life a lot quicker/easier

Side note: Yorick, you’ve been very quiet lately 😛

Yorick: Agreed that frameworks aren’t required to write good CSS, but not all of us can just say ‘to hell with IE’ as you obviously can. I do some side work for a hospital and IE is the only browser on every machine there because they have several other applications they use that don’t work right if not used it IE. Sadly enough, a lot of military projects will require you to use IE. So while it would be absolutely fabulous to nix IE all together.. that can’t always be done in the real world.

Yorick: Agreed that frameworks aren’t required to write good CSS, but not all of us can just say ‘to hell with IE’ as you obviously can. I do some side work for a hospital and IE is the only browser on every machine there because they have several other applications they use that don’t work right if not used it IE. Sadly enough, a lot of military projects will require you to use IE. So while it would be absolutely fabulous to nix IE all together.. that can’t always be done in the real world.

It can be done fairly easily, if everybody stops providing support the customers will be forced to upgrade, problem solved.

For that to work, you would need everyone to agree to stop supporting it pretty much simultaneously… otherwise, if i stop supporting it but everyone else still does, my customers could just move to someone else

(And just to clarify, I’m all in favour of getting rid of IE)

I’m all for gettin rid of IE as well. It would make things a lit simpler. I can’t force a customer to upgrade to something else. They don’t upgrade because of requirements of other major applications requiring certain versions of IE to operate properly. So just as Dam1an said, if I tell them no, the customer will replace me with someone else.

For that to work, you would need everyone to agree to stop supporting it pretty much simultaneously… otherwise, if i stop supporting it but everyone else still does, my customers could just move to someone else

(And just to clarify, I’m all in favour of getting rid of IE)

And that’s the problem, either we do it all together or we’ll be forced to support that piece of crap.

On the bright side, the percentage of IE6 users is getting lower and lower: http://i43.tinypic.com/35aqayx.png

I’d say another 18 months and it should be just about dead (IE6)... I can just about cope with IE7 for now lol