PHP firefox / IE7 browser - issue

mikejonessmith

I have some issues with code.

This header works in FIREFOX however if I view the page in IE7 .. see the pictures.

can anyone offer suggestions or how to fix .... I know nothing about <sad>

*I think this is the area ...that has the problem **

  </form>
  <!-- Search Google -->
  <br clear="all" />

</div>
<div id="menu"><span style="float:left">Products and Reviews:   </span><?php echo $menu; ?><br clear="all" /></div>

Thanks in advance

NogDog

Don't know if this is the issue, but as "clear" is a deprecated HTML attribute, you should use a CSS style instead:

<br style='clear:both' />

mikejonessmith

Sorry to be a dummy but ... should I do this ????

</form>

<br clear="all" />
</div>
<div id="menu"><span style="float:left">Products and Reviews:   </span><?php echo $menu; ?><br clear="all" /></div>

thanks for your help !!!!

mikejonessmith

I changed it to ... and it did not work .... sorry

<div id="menu"><span style="float:left">Products and Reviews:   </span><?php echo $menu; ?><br style='clear:both' /></div>

mikejonessmith

more of the code

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" media="all" />

</head>

<body>

<div id="top">
	<h1><a href="<?php echo  $config['site_url'];?>"><?php echo  $config['site_name'];?></a></h1>
	<!-- Search Google -->
	<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom" target="_top">
		<label for="sbi" style="display: none">Enter your search terms</label>
		<input type="text" name="q" size="20" maxlength="255" value="" id="sbi" style="background:#fff url('google.gif') left no-repeat;" onfocus="this.style.background='';" onblur="this.style.background='#fff url(\'google.gif\') left no-repeat;'" />
		<label for="sbb" style="display: none">Submit search form</label>
		<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" id="sbb" />
		<input type="hidden" name="client" value="pub-<?php echo $config['adsense']['pub_id'];?>" />
		<input type="hidden" name="forid" value="1" />
		<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
		<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="UTF-8" />
		<input type="hidden" name="safe" value="active" />
		<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="GALT:#008000;GL:1;DIV:#FFFFFF;VLC:663399;AH:center;BGC:FFFFFF;LBGC:FFFFFF;ALC:0000FF;LC:0000FF;T:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF;FORID:1" />
		<input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en" />
	</form>
	<!-- Search Google -->
	<br clear="all" />
</div>
<div id="menu"><span style="float:left">Products and Reviews: &nbsp; </span><?php echo $menu; ?><br style='clear:both' /></div>

NogDog

You only changed one of the two occurrences.

mikejonessmith wrote:
Sorry to be a dummy but ... should I do this ????

</form>

<br clear="all" /> <-- you did not change this one -->
</div>
<div id="menu"><span style="float:left">Products and Reviews:   </span><?php echo $menu; ?><br clear="all" /></div>

<br style='clear:both' />

thanks for your help !!!!

Other than that, it's pretty hard to say what the problem(s) is without being able to load the full HTML, run it through the validators (HTML and CSS), etc.

PS: Make sure the very first line of your page output is a fully-qualified doctype declaration, so that IE is not in "quirks mode."

mikejonessmith

changed both... and still no go ....

can you suggest the name of a great validator ???

mikejonessmith

can I email you the link

http://gizbuilder.com/test/

mikejonessmith

I think that was the answer ... however I not sure what to put in ????

<?php
include 'config.php';
include 'functions_php'.$config['php_version'].'.php';

fully-qualified doctype declaration,

should that be in the index.php file

mikejonessmith

found it ... is this okay ????

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

NogDog

mikejonessmith wrote:
changed both... and still no go ....

can you suggest the name of a great validator ???

I provided links to both W3C validators in post #6.

NogDog

mikejonessmith wrote:
found it ... is this okay ????

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>

Looks fine syntactically.