Website displaying white page on IE 8 and below

  • I know there are countless issues with IE but it seems that no one can access my clients site on it unless they have IE9. The site is using a modified version of Max Magazine. I don’t really know about this end of things so I’m not sure to even begin on fixing this or how a problem this big can be so specific to certain versions of a specific browser.

    If anyone could shine some light on the issue or provide help it would be greatly appreciated.

    https://bolivares.com/

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  • Thread Starter Corey

    (@bolivares)

    But can a CSS error cause every element of every page to completely not load?

    In theory, yes. if the theme uses javascript, it could also be a .js issue. Or is the theme using HTML5? IE8 is to old to support it properly.

    Thread Starter Corey

    (@bolivares)

    Pretty sure it’s a javascript issue but I really don’t know enough to figure out where it could be

    the IE conditionals at the top of the header seem broken;
    this is from your site (in the browser):

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <html class="no-js ie6" lang="en-US"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7 ]>    <html class="no-js ie7" lang="en-US"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]>    <html class="no-js ie8" lang="en-US"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gte IE 9)|!(IE)]><!-->
<html class="no-js" lang="en-US">
<meta charset="UTF-8" />

    and the same section from the unedited Max Magazine theme:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <html class="no-js ie6" <?php language_attributes(); ?>> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7 ]>    <html class="no-js ie7" <?php language_attributes(); ?>> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]>    <html class="no-js ie8" <?php language_attributes(); ?>> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gte IE 9)|!(IE)]><!--> <html class="no-js" <?php language_attributes(); ?>> <!--<![endif]-->
<head>
<meta charset="<?php bloginfo( 'charset' ); ?>" />
    Thread Starter Corey

    (@bolivares)

    Ok so this seems like this is where the issue lays but I really don’t know what this stuff means haha, sorry I’m a newbie.

    Could something be done with this to fix the problem?

    what is the code at the top of header.php in your theme right now?

    replace it with the code from the original unedited theme.

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