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June 2, 2011 at 8:08 pm #164747
I am having an issue when I try and use a custom profile my content goes blank in IE8 but works fine in FF. I read an earlier thread that said IE will only read the first 30 lines of the CSS file. Is this correct?

I am attaching 2 images showing what I am talking about.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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June 3, 2011 at 2:20 pm #394522
Hello, I saw your website in FF and also in IE8. But it is work fine in both browsers. I have attached screenshot of site in IE8. I think your browser may have some problem.
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June 6, 2011 at 8:15 pm #394973

I have fixed that article but I will explain below for you as you probably have more.

It is quite simple, you have pasted an article in from M$ word as I can see from your view source of that page.

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divclass="article-content"> 


That is a really bad thing to do withou first stripping all the pseudo html that M$ word adds to its documents. It uses these for layouts but as you can see it kills M$ own browser. FF understands M$ is talking garbage so ignores it and carries on regardless.

The best thing is go into the plugin for your editor if you are using tinyMCE. Set it to “Extended” mode and when you return to the article manager you will have a new icon that looks like a clipboards with a little M$ Word logo on it. First go into the html editor and remove everything from your article then re-paste it all in using that little icon I mentioned earlier. This will strip out all the extra code that you do not need and your site will now work.

In J1.6 there is a tool for stripping code from articles.
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June 6, 2011 at 8:22 pm #394975

Thanks for catching that. The user must have cut and pasted like you said, they are supposed to be pasting into notepad, then pasting from there into Joomla.

I appreciate it very much,

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June 6, 2011 at 8:26 pm #394977

You could just enable that extended mode then get them to paste in using that clipboard button. That way they will be able to keep any important layouts from their word doc but not have to strip all the code.

A simple way to check if you do have IE rendering problems is to view the source code. If you see big patches in green as per above it is almost certainly the problem. You can guarentee it if there is any code at the top of the green bit like this.

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