Display problem in IE6 and IE8

hundy posted this at 17:48 — 15th July 2009.

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Joined: Jun 2009

I've modified a template that displays well in Firefox 3.0.11 and IE7, despite some coding errors (I'm learning). In IE6 and IE8 I get a blank, black page. When I remove the shadowbox javascript, the vertical menu in the right sidebar gets pushed down to the bottom of the content area in IE6. IE 7 works but I still get the blank page in IE8.

The templage came with a Mootools 1.11 dropdown menu. I added another CSS vertical menu and shadowbox javascript to display images and videos in a modal window. I'm also using the Yahoo media player to play audio files.

I'd appreciate any advice I can get on how to get this page to load properly in IE6 and IE8 (as well as any advice I can get to improve the code)

with shadowbox:
http://www.searchforknowledge.com/Version49sb2/index.html

with shadowbox removed:
http://www.searchforknowledge.com/Version42/index.html

Thanks

webwiz posted this at 22:17 — 15th July 2009.

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Joined: May 2007

Well, I tried validating - always the first thing I do when running into trouble. Even the validator can't read your page, so I'm not surprised a browser has problems.
The error seems to be the Content-Type META tag that contains "charset={CHARSET}" as a value.

I suggest you start by getting the page to validate.

Cordially, David
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delete from internet where user_agent="MSIE" and version < 8;