[solved] Issues with my Site in IE7

[WafflesMcDuff]

I'm getting reports from users that they're experiencing cut-off pages and misalligned pictures viewing my site in IE7.
I'm running CMSMS 1.66 with a freeoscommerce template. Any idea what could be causing this?

My site: http://2010.lunacon.org


-Josh

[Jos]

Looks like the content in the homepage is a cut and paste from a microsoft application. The sourcecode looks very ugly

Please reply to: webmaster@lunacon.org

This is not common practice on a forum 

[WafflesMcDuff]

Looks like the content in the homepage is a cut and paste from a microsoft application. The sourcecode looks very ugly

I pasted formatted text and a picutre into the built in WYSIWYG editor.

Please reply to: webmaster@lunacon.org

This is not common practice on a forum 

Understood. Just not sure how often I'm going to be able to check in on this thread.

[WafflesMcDuff]

OK. I just re-did the source for the homepage by hand. Let me know if you still see any issues that would break compatibility with IE7. Thanks.

[Jos]

Your site still loads very slow... I use IE8 and Firefox

Can you paste your system information here? (it's found under tab Site admin)

[WafflesMcDuff]

System Information Help (new window)The information displayed below is collected from a variety of locations, and summarized here so that you may be able to conveniently find some of the information required when trying to diagnose a problem or request help with your CMS Made Simple installation.
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CMS Install Information:
CMS Version

1.6.6


Installed ModulesCMSMailer

1.73.14
FileManager

1.0.1
MenuManager

1.6.2
ModuleManager

1.3.1
News

2.10.3
nuSOAP

1.0.1
Printing

1.0.4
Search

1.6.1
ThemeManager

1.1.1
TinyMCE

2.5.5
FCKeditorX

1.1.0


Config Informationphp_memory_limit:

 
process_whole_template:

false
max_upload_size:

2000000
default_upload_permission:

664
assume_mod_rewrite:

false
page_extension:

 
internal_pretty_urls:

false
use_hierarchy:

true
debug:

false
output_compression:

false
root_url:

http://2010.lunacon.org
root_path:

/home/vtyoemon/public_html/2010 (0750) 
previews_path:

/home/vtyoemon/public_html/2010/tmp/cache (0777) 
uploads_path:

/home/vtyoemon/public_html/2010/uploads (0777) 
uploads_url:

http://2010.lunacon.org/uploads
image_uploads_path:

/home/vtyoemon/public_html/2010/uploads/images (0777) 
image_uploads_url:

http://2010.lunacon.org/uploads/images
use_smarty_php_tags:

false
locale:

 
default_encoding:

utf-8
admin_encoding:

utf-8

PHP Information:
Current PHP Version (phpversion):

5.2.9 
md5 function (md5_function):

On (True) 
GD version (gd_version):

2 
tempnam function (tempnam_function):

On (True) 
Magic quotes in runtime (magic_quotes_runtime):

Off (False) 
PHP Effective Memory Limit (memory_limit):

32M 
Maximum Execution Time (max_execution_time):

30 
PHP Safe Mode (safe_mode):

Off (False) 
Session Save Path (session_save_path):

No check because open basedir active 
Session Use Cookies (session.use_cookies):

On (True) 
Checking if the httpd process can create a file inside of a directory it created (create_dir_and_file):


PHP register_globals (register_globals):

On (True) 
PHP output_buffering (output_buffering):

On 
disable_functions in PHP (disable_functions):

 
PHP Open Basedir (open_basedir):

/home/vtyoemon:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/sqmail:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp 
Test for remote URL (test_remote_url):


fsockopen: Connection ok! 
fopen: Connection ok! 
File uploads (file_uploads):

On (True) 
Maximum Post Size (post_max_size):

8M 
Maximum Upload Size (upload_max_filesize):

2M 
Basic XML (expat) support (xml_function):

On (True) 
Test file_get_contents (file_get_contents):

On (True) 
Test ini_set (check_ini_set):

On (True) 

Server Information:
Server API (server_api):

apache2handler 
Server Database (server_db_type):

MySQL (mysql) 
Server Database Version (server_db_version):

5.0.85 
Server Software (server_software):

Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 
Server Operating System (server_os):

Linux 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5 On i686 


Permission Informationtmp:

/home/vtyoemon/public_html/2010/tmp (0777) 
templates_c:

/home/vtyoemon/public_html/2010/tmp/templates_c (0777) 
modules:

/home/vtyoemon/public_html/2010/modules (0777) 
File Creation Mask (umask):

/home/vtyoemon/public_html/2010/tmp/cache (0777) 

[Jos]

Your site loads fast enough now, so that's good.

The problem with IE7 looks like a css issue.

It looks as if the div with id content_bottom lays above the text. Maybe playing with z-index will help, else I don't know.

[WafflesMcDuff]

z-index? Please clarify

[Jos]

http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_positioning.asp 

[WafflesMcDuff]

OK. Found the content_bottom in the template. Not sure what it was meant to do but I definately wasn't using it. The line read

so it looks to me like it didn't even contain anything.

I removed that line and voila! Good catch! Thank you!