help! HTML5 footer tag missing in IE 8 even with googlecode HTML5 shiv

[mwarren]

link: http://www.splatterhat.com

I’ve got two kinds of shims, one is to create HTML semantic tags in all non-modern browsers. That one is the http://fiks-html5.googlecode.com/hg/fiks.html.js

When i checked IE 8, my entire footer is missing, so, I even added the google shiv http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js as a conditional comment with [if lte IE 8]

Checking again, my footer is still missing.

Any ideas?

[mwarren]

anyone?

[DogsGhost]

Also noticed in IE7 it is rendering div#inside_content offset (incorrectly) in relation to section#main_content.
It looks like you have an extra closing div tag before your closing section tag, which might be causing issues in IE.

[mwarren]

ok, so i removed the spare closing div tag, but that didn’t change much. the footer is still missing. When I validated, everything checks out. i saw no errors except for my use of repeating IDs so that I could have repeating style. Nothing like that should determine whether or not another element is displayed.

Any ideas?

[TT_Mark]

Get rid of your repeating ids. An ID should be unique.

[mwarren]

ok, id’s are gone, only classes now, and the footer is still missing in IE, what gives?

[TheDoc]

I’m wondering if this:

Is sending IE into Quirks mode? Since the footer is not the only thing missing, so are the font styles for “design, dev, branding…”.

[mwarren]

yeh i noticed that, lemme try to take that out

EDIT: got it fixed in IE9, cant test IE8 right now. I think you were right, as when i removed the initial comments, and made sure my curvycorners.js was only being called for less than IE9, the footer is back, and the styles are there.

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