Render issue in IE

Regular Joined: Oct 06, 2005 Posts: 76

Need some advice on this one. Fresh install of Raven and used a theme found on the interweb.

If you look at my site in firefox,

www.beat2k.org/vgomez

It looks fine.

Now take a look in IE

www.beat2k.org/vgomez

It's all messed up. Along with the playlist not starting automatically, like it does in firefox. I'm going to post the file i edited, and maybe someone can show me where i messed up that IE is having issues.

Code:




<?php


echo "<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"770\" align=\"center\">\n";


echo "   <tr><td width=\"100%\">\n";


echo "   <table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"770\">\n";


echo "   <tr><td width=\"100%\" height=\"195\" bgcolor=\"#cdcdcd\">\n";


echo "<table width=\"100%\" height=\"195\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" id=\"header\"> \n";


echo "   <tr>\n";


echo "      <td rowspan=\"4\">\n";


echo "         <img src=\"themes/Naturally-Blue/images/header_sidebar_left.jpg\" width=\"26\" height=\"195\" alt=\"\"></td>\n";


echo "      <td colspan=\"6\"\n";


echo "         background=\"themes/Naturally-Blue/images/header_login.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"37\" valign=\"middle\" height=\"31\" alt=\"\">$login</td>\n";


echo "      <td rowspan=\"4\">\n";


echo "         <img src=\"themes/Naturally-Blue/images/header_sidebar_right.jpg\" width=\"26\" height=\"195\" alt=\"\"></td>\n";


echo "   </tr>\n";


echo "   <tr>\n";


echo "      <td width=\"718\" height=\"120\" colspan=\"6\"\n";


echo "         background=\"\" class=\"headerlogo\" alt=\"\"></td>\n";


echo "   </tr>\n";


echo "   <tr>\n";


echo "      <td rowspan=\"2\"\n";


echo "         background=\"themes/Naturally-Blue/images/header_05.jpg\" width=\"50%\" height=\"38\" alt=\"\"></td>\n";


echo "      <td width=\"100\" height=\"31\" align=\"center\" valign=\"bottom\"\n";





//echo "         background=\"themes/Naturally-Blue/images/header_link1.jpg\" alt=\"\">$link1</td>\n";


//echo "      <td width=\"100\" height=\"31\" align=\"center\" valign=\"bottom\"\n";


//echo "         background=\"themes/Naturally-Blue/images/header_link2.jpg\" alt=\"\">$link2</td>\n";


//echo "      <td width=\"100\" height=\"31\" align=\"center\" valign=\"bottom\"\n";


//echo "         background=\"themes/Naturally-Blue/images/header_link3.jpg\" alt=\"\">$link3</td>\n";


//echo "      <td width=\"100\" height=\"31\" align=\"center\" valign=\"bottom\"\n";


//echo "         background=\"themes/Naturally-Blue/images/header_link4.jpg\" alt=\"\">$link4</td>\n";


echo "      <td rowspan=\"2\"\n";


echo "         background=\"themes/Naturally-Blue/images/header_search.jpg\" width=\"50%\" align=right valign=middle width=\"160\" height=\"38\" alt=\"\">\n";





echo "<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/


//flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0\" width=\"350\" height=\"100\"> "


."<param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.beat2k.org/xspf/xspf_player_slim.swf\"> "


."<param name=quality value=high> "


."<param name=bgcolor value=#FFFFFF> "


."<embed src=\"http://www.beat2k.org/xspf/xspf_player_slim.swf?playlist_url=/xspf/playlist.xspf&autoplay=true/\" quality=high pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/


index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\"


width=\"715\" height=\"16\"></embed>"


."</object>";


echo "   </tr></td>\n";


echo "   <tr>\n";


echo "      <td colspan=\"4\">\n";


echo "         <img src=\"themes/Naturally-Blue/images/header_11.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"7\" alt=\"\"></td>\n";


echo "   </tr>\n";


echo "</table>\n";


echo "   </td></tr>\n";


echo "     <td width=\"100%\"><table width=\"770\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"d3e2ea\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n";


echo "        </table>\n";


?>

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

It would be much easier if we could view the site. A good starting point is to the validate the HTML (you can do this with Firefox if you have the right extension).

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:32 am

Give it another try, sorry my server got hung up doing a backup. By the way, I understand validating HTML however, why would it show up correct in firefox but not in IE or Safari.

I'm thinking I hacked something up in that file i showed you, as that is where I made the modifications to insert that flash music player, and comment out some of the menu nav links

Thanks

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:53 am

Alright, its confirmed, the problem lies in that file, as when I replace it, it renders everything without the flash file correctly. (Renders the nav buttons at the top and all)

Any ideas... I ran it through a validator, but man is there a TON of errors all over....

Theme Guru Joined: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 1006

if you can provide me BOTH a download link to a copy of the unedited theme and a copy of the edited one. I will be happy to load them and take a look for you. it is next to impossible to help without those. Thanks and good luck.

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:48 pm

Alright, here you go....

www.beat2k.org/vgomez/themes.zip

The file I edited was called

themes\naturally-blue\header_noflash.php

It works like a charm in firefox, but something is wrong with it in IE and Safari.

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:41 pm

okay, i have them done for you. Where can I email the new files to?

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:48 pm

Simply Amazing.

Thanks again!

beat2k(at)rochester.rr.com

I'll post the results!

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:25 pm

okay, sent. it works fine for me in both IE6 and FF. The music still does not auto play in ie but that is more of a coding issue for the flash and I did not address that.

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:30 pm

Wow, thanks, what did you change? I'll have to look as to why the music doesn't autoplay.

Thanks again! This is by far one of the best forums around for advice and help!