CSS help needed — quick!

Published 1/29/08

[Update: Resolved. See comments.]

Something’s gone wrong. In fact, it may have been wrong for a while. Some of this site’s CSS isn’t working properly in Internet Explorer.

Here’s what I see in Firefox (click to enlarge if you like):

infirefox

But here’s what it looks like in Internet Explorer:

inie

 

For some reason the boxes on the home page aren’t appearing in IE, nor is the text within those boxes being formatted correctly.

CSS users, help!

The full CSS file is here. Here’s what I think are the relevant snippets:

This creates the box:

.box
    {
    border: 1px solid black;
        font-size: 100%;
    background-color: #cccccc;
    padding: 0 8px 4px 4px;
    margin: 0 0 6px 0;
}

 

And this formats any H3 tags within a box:

.box h3
    {
    font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Helv, sans-serif;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 16px;
    line-height: 14px;
    color: black;
    background-color: transparent;
    letter-spacing: -1px;
    margin-bottom: 4px;
    margin-top: 12px;
}

 

Any ideas why those boxes aren’t showing? And why the text inside isn’t being formatted the way I expect it to?

HELP!

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Andrew says:

FOUND IT.

Gosh, IE sucks. Really. The entire look of the site was screwed up in Internet Explorer because of one character — an extra quote in a style definition.

I had

small {font-family: “Verdana, Arial, Helvetica…

That extra quote before Verdana prevented IE from parsing the entire CSS file. Firefox had no problem, though.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

January 29th, 2008 at 2:53 PM

Steve says:

Believe me, as a pro web designer, I’ve said more nasty things about IE than Nazis, all my ex-girlfriends, and the Bush administration combined.

January 31st, 2008 at 5:16 AM

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