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mikeman

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I tried the page in Adobe Browser Lab with ie6.

The background image would not appear...

I gave it an ie6 or below specific style sheet with a background:black; just to make sure it was picking up on things and that wouldnt work.. any ideas?
thanks

mikeman

also... why would all nearly all of the text on the site be RED in ie 7 and below... whats that about?

Senff

<!--[if lt IE 6]><link href="ie6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><![endif]-->

This stylesheet is being called by IE versions BEFORE IE6 (if lt IE 6 = if less than ie6), so IE5.5 and before. Change it into one of these first:

<!--[if lt IE 7]><link href="ie6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><![endif]-->

<!--[if IE 6]><link href="ie6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><![endif]-->

The text is in red because of this code:

<span class="req">*<span>

You forgot the slash before the closing span, so IE7 actually interprets that (correctly, actually) by showing everything as part of the "req" class. All other browsers interpreted it as a mistake so they fixed it for you.

mikeman

derr :) thanks!

any chance you can see why the background image wont show ?

Senff

Most likely because this line in formcss.css takes precedence:

background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35) !important;

The !important tag just keeps overriding the background declaration in IE6.

mikeman

hmm

mikeman

i removed it but in adobe browser lab ie6 the background is still white

Senff

Don't have IE6 handy here to test, but maybe try to change

background: black;

into:

background-color:#000; background-image:none;

Just a wild guess.

Senff

Actually, I just tried it with IE6 in IEtester and the form background looks pretty black there.

TheDoc

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