Checking Your Website’s Standards-Compliant (2)
Compatibility view is enabled in the browser, while the x-ua-compatible header is set in the markup, using a <meta/> tag, or via a HTTP header sent by the server. Compatibility view is enabled if the user clicks the Compatibility View button, or if the web site appears on the Windows Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View [...]
Checking Your Website’s Standards-Compliant
As mentioned previously, Internet Explorer 8 is capable of rendering web sites as if it were IE7, including all the strange hasLayout discrepancies that have caused us trouble over the years. How do you make sure that IE8 uses it’s best rendering mode—rather than reverting to IE7—when displaying your web site?
Fixing Internet Explorer Problems (4)
Adding Position: Relative to Elements If gaining a layout fails to work sometimes setting position to relative on an element will fix a problem. Keep in mind that setting position to relative on an element will mean all its child elements will now use that element for a positioning context. Otherwise this should be safe [...]
Fixing Internet Explorer Problems (3)
Specifying some CSS properties, like setting float to left or right, also cause an element to gain a layout. Causing an element to gain a layout makes most of these problems disappear. The trick is to find a CSS property that will cause an element to gain a layout without having a detrimental effect on [...]
Fixing Internet Explorer Problems (2)
Fixing the Lack of min-height Support in IE6 Internet Explorer 6 has no support for min-height(the minimum height an element should take), but it incorrectly interprets heightas min-height. So, though height is used to specify a fixed height in other browsers, Internet Explorer 6 takes it to mean the minimum height, so a block element [...]