I'm putting together a site at http://kimeptimes.net and having some issues making it work with IE 6, though viewed with Firefox it shows no problems beyond my own rudimentary skills.
When I view the front page as an anonymous user in IE 6, it looks reasonably normal. However, if I view a node (by clicking on one of the titles in the front page or, for instance, navigating to this page:[ http://kimeptimes.net/ktcontent/080501/controversial-sg-trip-us-cost-kim... ] then the red bar for the dropdown menu disappears, as do other graphic elements.
It's even worse if I log in as an administrator, as this makes the menu at the top of the screen disappear entirely and move to the left sidebar. The content of the node then gets forced all the way to the bottom of the screen and the margins disappear entirely.
The only theme related changes I have made consists of some basic field formatting for Views and CCK, but removing the files that contain this theming does not seem to correct the problem. (I know very little about theming and am trying my best to limit modifications to the theme.)
My ideal fix would be to make all visitors use Firefox, but that isn't realistic. I'd appreciate some advice on troubleshooting the problem here with IE.
Thank you.
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| #3 | ie-6-home-page.png | 154.94 KB | Roulion |
| #2 | updated-ie-page.jpg | 191.14 KB | femrich |
| node_mid_ie_logged.jpg | 180.74 KB | femrich | |
| node_top_ie_logged.jpg | 121.39 KB | femrich | |
| node_top_ie_anon.jpg | 155.95 KB | femrich |
Comments
Comment #1
Jeff Burnz commentedThe theme is well tested and works perfectly with IE6. Your issue has nothing to do with the theme.
You are using a large number of modules, thus the site is loading many CSS stylesheets (more than 31), this is the issue afaikt - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531194(VS.85).aspx
Turn on CSS Aggregation in Performance settings - if that clears things up, then this is the issue without doubt.
Comment #2
femrich commentedThat helped quite a bit, thanks. Just one big oddity visible now: IE is adding a dark background to CCK fields at the top of the node page (screenshot attached). I suspect that is something I must work out through coding of CCK fields, but if you have any thoughts on that they'd be appreciated. If not, thanks in any case for the help you've already given.
Comment #3
Roulion commentedhi
i had the same issue... i activate the css compression but i still have the problem.
Thats quite strange because some css is taken, but some not
Comment #4
Roulion commentedhi
i had the same issue... i activate the css compression but i still have the problem.
Thats quite strange because some css is taken, but some not
---- sorry for the doublon, please delete
Comment #5
Jeff Burnz commented