Theme breaks in IE 8 or Crhome when using CiviCRM

Sure, please send some links or screenshots (links are preferable so I can view page source) and I'll see if I can figure out what is happening. I'm afraid I have never used CiviCRM so can't even begin to guess what is happening without more info, though.

Hi ajross,

We have a similar issue in this regard. We have tried different themes even and same problem persists whereby the pages all render fine in Firefox but not in any version of IE (tried 8,7 and 6 - 6 actually performs an illegal op and crashes when trying to view a CiviCRM page). It's only when viewing the CiviCRM pages though, that it does not render properly in IE.

You can are welcome to have a look at it on our live website at the following url:
http://www.lamayesheling.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=11 - this is an event created in CiviCRM (works fine on Firefox but not in IE)

I am in the process as well to try a correct it so, should I find a solution in the meantime I'll update you here in this posting.

Additional Info:
Running Drupal 6.16 and CiviCRM 3.1 - Issue only started after upgrading to the latest version of CiviCRM

Many thanks
R

Just to update you quickly - 2 am of course and I found the problem... It looks like IE does not like too many references to css files and with the new update of CiviCRM and the additional css references added, plus all the other references we had installed for other modules IE was freaking out (strangely FF is cool with all these additional references) especially when going to a CiviCRM generated page. Solution for me was to enable "Optimize CSS Files" under Administer -> Site Config -> Performance.

Hope this might help some others you could potentially have the same issue.

Regards,
R

Yep, there is a 30 stylesheet limit with IE, so that is often the problem people run into on sites with a lot of modules that add stylesheets. Glad you got it worked out.

Glad to have found this post. The Optimize helps to clear up the site in IE.

Thanks roman-drupal