moo Accordion in IE7

Hi All

I have just completed my own website.

www.trevormckay.co.uk

All OK and Accordion views well in browsers on Mac and PC except IE7. Why is it I have so much trouble with things not looking right in IE7. It is a real PAIN.
The header boxes have annoying little gaps between which seem to jump now and then. Even if they were of equal spacing but it makes the design look terrible.

Is is possible that I have a setting wrong somewhere?
I’m still on 4 Pro. My Doc. setting for output are: XHTML 1.0 Transitional. HTML Code: More Readable. Line feeds: Unix. Reinforce layout tables: checked. IE6 Compatible: checked.

Unfortunately a lot of people use this danged browser and as you can imagine in my line of work - this one has to look good. If only Safari were the default browser on PC’s.

Would an upgrade to 5 Pro help at all?

Any help would be appreciated.

Trev.


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Hi Trev;
Not bad! I do think that on your home page you meant from rather than
form.
If wrong, I apologize.
Dave
On Jan 8, 2009, at 2:58 PM, t50ufo wrote:

Hi All

I have just completed my own website.

www.trevormckay.co.uk

All OK and Accordion views well in browsers on Mac and PC except
IE7. Why is it I have so much trouble with things not looking right
in IE7. It is a real PAIN.
The header boxes have annoying little gaps between which seem to
jump now and then. Even if they were of equal spacing but it makes
the design look terrible.

Is is possible that I have a setting wrong somewhere?
I’m still on 4 Pro. My Doc. setting for output are: XHTML 1.0
Transitional. HTML Code: More Readable. Line feeds: Unix. Reinforce
layout tables: checked. IE6 Compatible: checked.

Unfortunately a lot of people use this danged browser and as you can
imagine in my line of work - this one has to look good. If only
Safari were the default browser on PC’s.

Would an upgrade to 5 Pro help at all?

Any help would be appreciated.

Trev.


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Hi Dave
Thanks for pointing out typo!
Trev


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I don’t have IE in front of me at present.

But, just as an experiment, try these couple things independantly:

a) Toggling page output to ‘more efficient’ and see if IE7 formats the html better

b) Add this CSS to the page:

* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

(Click the cog on the styles/color palette and ‘New Style’, then edit that style. In the Style dialog, insert ‘*’ in the tag filed, tab to the ‘name’ field, delete the default ‘styleN’ and TAB again to make sure FW accepts just the tag entry. The ‘margin’ and ‘padding’ entries shold be added via the extended… button)

It should naturally migrate to nearer the top of your CSS just by virtue of its sort order alphabetically within the other CSS styles. Though it is a broad classification and should easily be overwritten by more precise defined styles elsewhere in your page design as needed.

Please, report back if neither, either, both of these potentials helped at all.


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Hi Weaver

Many thanks for you reply.
1st off I have tried the ‘more efficient’ output. uploaded all. cleared browser cache on PC with no change.

As to your add CSS to the page. Sorry but this is new to me so I will need a bit of hand holding.
I go to Document Styles - New Style - ‘*’ in the tag field - tab to ‘name’ delete and tab again - Extended: name:margin. value 0 and name: padding. value 0.
I take it that’s all I do as it should apply to the document?
I have published and uploaded again but still the same.

Have I done this correctly? Or have I missed something?

Trev


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I’ve just been looking at your site on a PC with IE6 an I don’t see anything wrong with it compared to Safari. (apart from the usual IE font rendering etc)

On 8 Jan 2009, at 19:58, t50ufo wrote:

The header boxes have annoying little gaps between which seem to jump now and then. Even if they were of equal spacing but it makes the design look terrible.

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Hi Dave,

Thank you for taking time to reply.
Yes - very strange. I have Dell laptop running IE7 I use to test sites. My headers have about a 2 pix. gap on each.

I also have a little Asus EeePC notebook running XP and IE6 and i have just looked and it looks OK on there. So wonder if it is a combo of my silly laptop and IE7. Anyone else out there not seeing the menu headers tight together on IE7!

Trev


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