Does anyone here use IE6?

anna

New Member
I know, I know; any developer worth their salt is screaming "No No" right now, but I need someone to take a look at a site using IE6.

By chance, if anyone has it, maybe using remote desktop, please message me...

Thank you!
 

anna

New Member
Hi!

I have a site I'm building and most of the pages look fine in IE6, however, there are a few that completely break up. I don't understand because I'm using the same style sheets and the other pages look fine. Would you please take a look?

Here is a link

See? It's crazy! If you click on the logo or go to "Resources > Tradeshows" it's fine, or if you go "Products > Separation Science > Pegasus HT" it's fine. but the market pages are all wonky.

I haven't given up yet... I'm going to try a couple of things this morning, but if you get a chance, will you please take a look and see if anything strange jumps out?

I really appreciate your time! Thank you!!
 

sysgenmedia

New Member
Always fun working with IE6, haha.

Especially when I see one page working and others not working, I try to compare the source of the working / not working pages to see what kind of tricks IE6 may like.

One thing I noticed on both pages is that just before the </div> above the footer div, there's the following:

<p><br />
</p>

Perhaps IE6, for whatever reason, is rendering your table on the markets page below the footer div, but adding this <p> tag may stop that. Kind of a long shot, but that's the only difference I noticed between the two working pages and the Markets page on a quick look over.

Try making the ending code on that page:

Code:
<p><br />
  </p>
</div>
<div id="footer"><p><img src="../assets/fw_assets_new/footer_sepsci_gray.jpg" alt="Footer" name="footer" width="980" height="40" id="footer" /></div></p>
  <!-- end #footer --></div>
<!-- end #container --></div>
</body>
</html>

With IE6 it's always a fun game of guess and check when it comes to this sort of issue.

Good luck!
 

anna

New Member
Thank you, Sysgenmedia!

That is a great suggestion and I will let you know how it turns out.

Yes, I am in agreement with you; it is SO MUCH FUN working with IE6.

I tried comparing the pages myself and was having trouble- everything was starting to swim together... :)

Anyhow, thank you again, I really appreciate everyone's feedback!
 

PixelPusher

Super Moderator
Staff member
Anna if you need to check out sites in IE6 one of the best apps to use is IE Tester

FYI, this app will let you test in IE8, IE7, IE6, IE5.5
 

sysgenmedia

New Member
May also want to look into MultipleIEs. Apparently this doesn't work on Vista, but I love it for my XP machine.

I used to use IETester for checking IE6, but I've found it's fairly unstable. MultipleIE's is a bit older I believe, and only goes up to IE6, which is all I use it for. I'll still pull out IETester for checking in IE7 from time to time though.
 

anna

New Member
Thanks, guys! Actually, I have remote desktop and another tower, so I have IE6, 7 and 8 on my system. I just needed another pair of eyes! :) Have a great weekend, and thank you again for your help!!
 

PixelPusher

Super Moderator
Staff member
May also want to look into MultipleIEs. Apparently this doesn't work on Vista, but I love it for my XP machine.

I used to use IETester for checking IE6, but I've found it's fairly unstable. MultipleIE's is a bit older I believe, and only goes up to IE6, which is all I use it for. I'll still pull out IETester for checking in IE7 from time to time though.

Yeah IETester has randomly crashed on me a couple times. Only has happened when I left the app running for long time??? Not sure why that would cause a crash, but hey it is free so I can't really complain
 
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