By triskele on

Hi again,

So I've been working on debugging a theme that someone developed without an adequate (if any?) understanding of the box model or CSS in general. I've found things like:

.form_submit{
  float: left;
  clear:both;
  float: left;
  display: inline;
}

Yikes, eh? *grumbles*

Firefox 3 is giving my CSS a lot of love. However, I've discovered my client really, really wants the site to be IE6 compatible. As much as most designers dislike this, I can understand wanting to reach as many users as possible. Right now my issue is that the main content area ('content' respectively) is displayed fine in FF3. In IE6 before, it breaks horribly. There is NO content in the frontpage/content area, and the left sidebar (looks like a right sidebar, but it's not - just a left one floated over, right one is disabled) is pushed down the page some, although it's looking alright other than that.

Site:

http://www.toublo.com

Please check in either browser and offer some feedback. I will award you with joy, joy, joy. :)

Best,

~Angelina

Comments

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

You really need to validate your html, I show 65 errors. For example your content area has both an html and body tag inside a div.

triskele’s picture

triskele commented

I'm noticing this too, and I think it's one of the third party modules my client installed.
Now, as I'm not quite used to this, is there an effective way to debug the markup from just one module? I have never done that before, so just point me where to go if this is possible and I'll ride the learning curve.

Best,

~Angelina

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prestonso commented

The only way to fix validation errors is to go into the code; there is no module that will "validate" HTML for you. Based on the troubles you seem to be having, you might want to consider using conditional comments specifically for IE 6, especially if the site functions fine in FF 3 and you want to avoid any more hassle with coding.
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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

I would start by looking at page.tpl.php and make sure the problem is not there. In this case you probably know which module is being used to produce the front page. So given that I would look at the module code and templates.