Serious problem with I.E.6

lionheart8 - September 16, 2009 - 08:40

Hi
I have been using the Tapestry theme from Rooplethemes.com for a while. I like the theme because of its many good features, but I discovered that the main content is not shown where it is supposed to be. Instead, it's pushed below the lowest left block in Internet Explorer 6.
I thought this could be corrected by increasing the width of the theme, but this does not help at all, in spite of a considerable increase even of up to 200px. Other browsers & versions of IE are fine.

Are there any general solutions to such IE6 problems or at least some things I could try out?

The problem is:

A good fraction of my site guests come from countries where for several reasons IE6 & like browsers are still very much in use. The distorted site looks terrible!

Another problem is Roopletheme dev. and support seem to be practically dead these days. They make or made very good themes, but it seems the key people there for some reason left.
The support forum is mostly manned by some rude fellow, who mostly offers no help & the user community also has become increasingly less active, possibly because ofthe mentioned changes. So one is really very lucky to get any response if a problem comes up.

Any help will be appreciated.

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I also am facing this problem

inspirited - September 16, 2009 - 19:12

My site displays different in other IE versions. My labtop runs IE8. How do I get my site to display properly on other IE versions. The content of the site is offset from my theme and in some browsers everything in the left pannel is placed beneath my right panel. It works fine on FF and IE8.

Hi, Mostly this is because

salty - September 18, 2009 - 22:34

Hi,
Mostly this is because the left or right div is to large. You can rebuild it but you probably should contact the contact the people who made this theme

Add Conditional stylesheets

ishmaelsanchez - September 18, 2009 - 23:22

In your theme page.tpl.php add the following code in the head section.

<!--[if IE]>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php print $base_path . $directory; ?>/ie.css" type="text/css">
<![endif]-->

Then your info file add conditional-stylesheets[if IE][all][] = ie.css. Add all your IE hacks into this file. If you want you can break down the conditional CSS for different versions of IE. If you are successful in fixing the problems with the theme contact the theme maintainer and/or submit patches. Good luck

regarding your suggestion

lionheart8 - September 20, 2009 - 19:32

I dont have any "hacks" for IE 6 & below, that is why it's a problem.
I have tried to play around with CSS, changing this & that, but I have not found anything that corrects the problem ijn IE 6 & probably its predecessor.
May be my handcap is not being too much at home with style sheets.

I failed to paste page.tpl here ...
but the theme is here http://demo.roopletheme.com/tapestry/download .... the version for Drupal 6!
I would appreciate any further help, though I will also be trying.
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Targeting IE 6

ishmaelsanchez - September 20, 2009 - 20:25

You can use the underscore hack to target IE 6 and below.

.box {
_background: #000; /* IE 6 and below */
}

If you do a search in your favorite search engine you can find out more information about targeting different versions of IE. If you have a problem with a certain part of the theme I can help if you provide a link to your development site.