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Matteh · 09-13-09

Hey guys, I'm having a little problem with IE6:

I'd just leave it as it's not a big issue, everything looks and works as intended however this is for school and is going to be marked with IE6.

I have looked for solutions, but just can't figure out what is wrong, if someone can help me by pointing out what I've done wrong that'd be great. I'm not necessarily asking for a solution, I'm more than hapy to learn how to fix the issue, however I don't exactly know what the issue is.

Thanks.

I have used CSS and Divs. I will post code soon, I have to go to my next class now.

uberjon · 09-13-09

i know this probably is not what you want to hear.. but.. my solution would be find another school..

IT classes shouldnt teach history, but the future... IE6 for grades really?? ugh.. :/

shame on the school, and the teachers!

MalVeauX · 09-13-09

Heya,

Judging from your scroll bars, it looks like you have your body of that frame centered vertically. Look to uncenter it.

Very best,

A-E-I-Owned-You · 09-13-09

IE is a good place to work as ALOT of people still use IE. It isnt the past to everyone you know. I have found IE to be harder to get everything working visually than FF so that is where I personally work outside of FTP and cpan.

Matteh · 09-14-09

It's mainly due to the fact that software is developed for the school that uses IE6 and newer versions break it.

I think I have found a solution though, thanks MalVeauX.
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Instead of making a new thread, I thought I'd ask this here.

I have to make an order form for the site, there are six items.

I need to collect shipping information, which items and how many of each [there are only 6 items] and then a fake credit card transaction.

Any ideas on what I can use to make this?

Thanks.

Faster_is_better · 09-18-09

Do you have to program it yourself, or can you use a shopping cart system like osCommerce?

nerdy_swagger · 09-23-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by A-E-I-Owned-You

IE is a good place to work as ALOT of people still use IE. It isnt the past to everyone you know. I have found IE to be harder to get everything working visually than FF so that is where I personally work outside of FTP and cpan.

hes talking about IE SIX not IE in general -.-

huge difference. IE 6 is literally a nonfunctional piece of software in regards to standards compliance. you need bad code for a page to render well in ie6

Ectrian · 09-27-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by A-E-I-Owned-You

IE is a good place to work as ALOT of people still use IE. It isnt the past to everyone you know. I have found IE to be harder to get everything working visually than FF so that is where I personally work outside of FTP and cpan.

....IE6 is two versions out of date. So, no, it is not an acceptable or modern browser nor should students be graded with an out of date browser. Even the current version of IE is three times slower than Chrome and Firefox and still requires special exceptions to be written for it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matteh

It's mainly due to the fact that software is developed for the school that uses IE6 and newer versions break it.

I think I have found a solution though, thanks MalVeauX.
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Instead of making a new thread, I thought I'd ask this here.

I have to make an order form for the site, there are six items.

I need to collect shipping information, which items and how many of each [there are only 6 items] and then a fake credit card transaction.

Any ideas on what I can use to make this?

Thanks.

Here you go. Place this code where you want to form to be. You can save it as an html file to see what the form will look like.

Code:

<form action="index.html" method="POST">
	<table width="100%" border="0">
		<tr>
			<td width="40%">First Name:</td>
			<td width="60%"><input type="text" name="field_06" value="" style="width: 100%" /></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td width="40%">Last Name:</td>
			<td width="60%"><input type="text" name="field_07" value="" style="width: 100%" /></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td width="40%">Phone Number:</td>
			<td width="60%"><input type="text" name="field_08" value="" style="width: 100%" /></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td width="40%">Credit Card Number:</td>
			<td width="60%"><input type="text" name="field_09" value="" style="width: 100%" /></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td width="40%">Address Line 1:</td>
			<td width="60%"><input type="text" name="field_01" value="" style="width: 100%" /></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td width="40%">Address Line 2:</td>
			<td width="60%"><input type="text" name="field_02" value="" style="width: 100%" /></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td width="40%">City:</td>
			<td width="60%"><input type="text" name="field_03" value="" style="width: 100%" /></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td width="40%">State:</td>
			<td width="60%"><input type="text" name="field_04" value="" style="width: 100%" /></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td width="40%">Zip Code:</td>
			<td width="60%"><input type="text" name="field_05" value="" style="width: 100%" /></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td colspan="2"><input type="checkbox" name="check_01[]" value="1" />Item Name 1</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td colspan="2"><input type="checkbox" name="check_01[]" value="2" />Item Name 2</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td colspan="2"><input type="checkbox" name="check_01[]" value="3" />Item Name 3</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td colspan="2"><input type="checkbox" name="check_01[]" value="4" />Item Name 4</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td colspan="2"><input type="checkbox" name="check_01[]" value="5" />Item Name 5</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td colspan="2"><input type="checkbox" name="check_01[]" value="6" />Item Name 6</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td colspan="2"><input type="submit" value="Order!" style="width: 100%" /></td>
		</tr>
	</table>
</form>

I'm not exactly sure why they would want you to use forms... Forms are useless with out a server-side script engine to validate them.

And to answer your original question on how to fix the layout... I would recommend using tables instead of divs. Much more reliable cross-browser.

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