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[bobbytuck Friend bobbytuckJoin date: November 2009Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0]

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This happens *only* with IE7 and IE8.

I have Purity II 1.1.

The problem:

I have a category list view of 11 items. I reduce the view to 5 items. The pagination bar appears. As soon as I *mouse over* the pagination bar, I lose my left side and right side menus. It looks like the menus disappear from the sides and move down to the bottom.

I’ve tried everything — editing the CSS, hunting down “disappearing DIV” posts in Google. But I can’t seem to fix this issue. Essentially, this prevents me from listing a specific number of categories in the view.

I’ve tried adjust the various widths — widesceen, auto, specific pixel, etc. Still see the error.

I can remove the pagination bar — and it’s fine. No issues.

I can say “list all” in the category view, and so long as the pagination bar doesn’t show up, I see all the categories and there are no problems with the menus.

If I switch back to Purity I template (default in core) everything is fine — even *with* the pagination bar.

If I switch to another template altogether, YooTheme, RocketTheme then everything is fine — even *with* the pagination bar.

This only happens in Purity II when used with IE7 and IE8.

I can duplicate the error on any IE7 and IE8 browser (I use BrowserCam’s remoting service to test various browsers).

No issues with Firefox, Chrome, or Safari.

Help!

[bobbytuck Friend bobbytuckJoin date: November 2009Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0]

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Well, as soon as I post the error, I discovered the solution. I’ve verified this on three different IE8 installations.

The culprit is IE’s ‘compatibility view.’

If I view my Purity II 1.1 website with compatibility view turned ON, I see the disappearing menus.

If I turn off compatibility — remove all the websites from the box and uncheck all the boxes in IE8’s compatibility view options — the site works fine. Menus stay in place and the pagination works as expected.

Again — no problems with FF, Chrome, or Safari.

But hopefully this can be caught in the next release of Purity II.

I added this line to the template’s head to force it run *WITHOUT* compatibility mode:

<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=8″ />

Seems fine. I no longer see the compatibility button near the address bar in IE8 when I refresh.

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