I cannot express how much I hate IE

  • I am so FRUSTRATED right now it’s hard for me to find words to describe it.

    I’m creating a new theme, and so far it displays perfectly in Firefox, safari, camino, but NOT IE!! WHAT THE %^@%?

    Maybe someone can help me. In my header (I would post the link, but i dont really want google finding a help thread if someone is searching for my site) i’ve got 3 images, each lies underneath the other and fits together nicely, like this (each number represents an image:

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    I have text overtop of these images, positioned so it fits in with the images.

    On one of these images, I have a span containing text which is aligned on the left. On another span, I want a drop down menu (like you’d see in a form), aligned to the right. Whenever I do that, however, IE adds in bloody white spaces, breaking apart my perfectly aligned images:

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    When I replace this drop down with text, everything is fine. What the HECK is the problem with a freaking drop down menu that is causing all of these stupid spaces?????

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  • It’s be nice to see your stylesheet – but from your description I’d say it’s the famous IE 3-pixel margin thing. IE likes to add 3 pixel margins around images – especially beneath them.

    Stick a conditional comment in your header that gives your images a margin of -3px. That should do the trick. (Of course, like I said, I’m guessing at the problem. Seeing code would be much more helpful.)

    Thread Starter cowpie

    (@cowpie)

    doodlebee, is there a way I could PM or email you my code. I just don’t like to post it up here with no way of removing it later? Thanks for your response to my angry rant

    but i dont really want google finding a help thread if someone is searching for my site)

    Hmm. I have even heard about cases when a user asked his post to be removed – as if he solved cleverly his issues all by himself.
    No comment.

    LOL @moshu

    Actually I don’t think a dedicated layman or even a pro in webdesign should feel awkward about asking such things.

    No one can know all and everything, especially in this field. To me trying to do that, is bound for failure and the much more intelligent approach is to know what to ask where when you need it. Nothing shameful in that, as it only shows that someone is capable of channeling his ressources and applying them with a good practical IQ. ??

    Thread Starter cowpie

    (@cowpie)

    I think you have misinterpreted what I said. If you created amazon.com, and you posted threads asking for help linking to amazon.com, would you want that out there? Of course you would want the help references there, so others could learn from it.

    But if someone searches for amazon on google and finds you asking questions like an amateur, I think it would knock you down a peg, regardless if people consciously recognize it or not.

    I’m not trying to play it like I solved my issues myself, I just want to separate my site’s content from the site’s backend.

    Hi cowpie,

    asking on “how to link” is a tad different from asking about an IE bug and how to circumvent it, at least in my book ;-). There’s also a little, very marginal, minuscule difference between writing a page design/theme for a pre-existing OSS and “creating Amazon”, also in my book ;-).

    No offense meant, but aren’t you a bit overinterpreting what users of such a theme might think, eventually, or not?

    I can understand not publishing a concrete client’s address, and I don’t do that myself, ever. But if I was creating a theme for my own site or for distribution I go by the adage that there are no truly dumb questions and that whoever has dumb answers can keep them ??

    Thread Starter cowpie

    (@cowpie)

    I understand what you’re saying lhk, but I’m not the one who started the debate about it.

    Now, I take it no one wants to help me out haha, to each their own I suppose

    You were helped (by doodlebee). As much as can be with the limited information you’ve offered.

    Now, I take it no one wants to help me out haha, to each their own I suppose

    Several attempts were made…

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