Issues with Internet Explorer 8?

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Permalink Reply by Harvey Raybould on July 6, 2010 at 10:43am

Hi,

I have viewed your site several times in Internet Explorer v8 and cannot see any problems with it compared to FireFox. Did you rectify the issues?

Regards

Harvey

Permalink Reply by M Howden on July 6, 2010 at 11:20am

Hello Harvey,
This is where I grovel and apologise that I didn't take time to give you a progress update! With the help of the wonderful Stu Nichols, I was able to substitute coding that rectified the problem. However, I still don't understand why the affected pages were displaying incorrectly. I have uploaded the original version of one of the pages causing the problem for you to inspect and you can see it is all over the place in IE8. The url is:
http://www.penicuikpapermaking.org/rawmatoriginal.html
When I originally authored this website, I used my code containing the table/tr/td structure to display the columns of images and text and it still displays without any problem in the majority of the website pages. It seems to be only recently edited pages that were displaying incorrectly in IE8. Could it be my version of Dreamweaver that was causing the problem? I now use CS4 whereas I formerly used Dreamweaver 8.

It's a mystery to me why this happened to only around 9 of the pages on the site and I would like to understand why it happened as I much prefer using the table/tr/td structure to control the placing of images on the page.
Thanks for any observations.

Permalink Reply by Harvey Raybould on July 6, 2010 at 12:15pm

Hi,

Internet Explorer has issues with rowspan and colspan. In your example you have 3 columns two of which you gave a width of 140 but the first one (with the text starting with "Originally paper was made from cotton and linen rags, but such was the demand, that papermakers constantly sought alternative raw materials.")

You did not have a width value.

So try changing this code;

In my DreamWeaver it is line number 177

td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" rowspan="2" colspan="2"

to

td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" rowspan="2" colspan="2" width="95%"

It seems to have to be a % as opposed to a fixed width.

Please put the <> symbols back at the start and end of the line. I had to remove them here
to show you the code.

I tried it and it worked on the copy of the page I downloaded.

Hope it works for you

Regards

Harvey