Nav bar background different color in IE / moving nav bar inside header?

  • My site is at michaelgaither.com/home. I currently have the navigation bar sitting directly below the header/banner. It looks fine in Safari and Firefox, but in IE, the background color of the nav bar is different…works, but looks REALLY odd in IE.

    Ques1: Is there a way to figure out what’s calling this different in IE? I don’t see any color references in my nav.php file.

    Ques2: How could I put the navigation bar/text into the header/banner itself?

    Thanks,

    – Michael

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  • Hi Michael, the problem will be in the style sheet..I don’t know which version of ie you’re using?

    If you get stuck, I will take a look for you..

    cheers man

    david

    @mhgaither: You’re in the wrong place; these are forums for WordPress users. You’re using b2evolution; see: https://forums.b2evolution.net/

    Thread Starter mhgaither

    (@mhgaither)

    Hi,

    I’m using WP. (My old site is in B2, and if you enter just michaelgaither.com, the redirect takes you to the B2 blog.)

    The WP page is michaelgaither.com/home (you need to add “home”). It works, I just haven’t made it my official new page.

    As far as IE, the nav bar color probs are on IE 6.0.2. Thanks for any help getting this resolved.

    – Michael

    Ah, I see that now. One problem are your code errors, most importantly the ones in the nav section. You can ignore the unencoded ampersand errors in the flash embed, as they don’t affect display, but you should sort out the others. That’s the problem with converting a theme and CSS; it can be a mess.

    [Invalid]Markup Validation of michaelgaither.com home – W3C Markup Validator. Scroll down in the validation report to see line numbers and source code.

    What you’re probably going to need to do is create an IE6 specific style sheet with conditional comments that give CSS just for IE6. https://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html

    IE6 can be a pain to deal with. Decide if you even want to support it; globally, less then 5% of users still use IE6.

    Thread Starter mhgaither

    (@mhgaither)

    This does look a little intense. I did a little querying this morning. Lots of people are on IE 7 and 8, but I also found a fair number who were still on IE 6.

    Any more advice on conditional comments? I’ll read that link above.

    Thanks,

    – Michael

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