By dibbd on

The theme I'm using looks terrible in IE8, how can I fix that?

It looks great in IE7 and Firefox, but noticed last week or so ago that the formatting (probably the CSS?) is way off in IE8.

The site is http://dibbsolutions.com if you wanted to take a peek to see what I mean.

Is there some kind of code or something I could put on the pages that says "if IE8, then render as IE7" or something like that?

Thanks for any help!

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Comments

LiquidWeb’s picture

LiquidWeb commented

Unfortunately you can't control IE8 emulation but you can add extra CSS for each browser
For IE8 add this code

<!--[if IE 8]><style type="text/css" media="all">@import "/sites/all/themes/yourtheme/styles/ie8.css";</style><![endif]-->

The code above is treated as comment by non ie browser but IE check version. If IE version is 8 it will include that CSS so you can override rules bothering you.

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

You can emulate IE7 by switching on compatibility mode with this meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

Place directly below the <title> tag in page.tpl.php (it must be the first thing after the title).

If you havent made modifactions to the theme you may also want to post an issue to the greenNblack issue queue to notify them that things are not looking good in IE8.

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