In IE7 and 8, forms look like something the cat brought in
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:48 am
When looking at things using Firefox, everything looks OK.
But when using Internet Explorer (at least IE7 and IE8) many forms look like something the cat brought-in because lay-out is completely cluttered.
I installed Joomla! 1.6 RC1 with the example data.
From the front end, just click "Create account" to open the user registration form in Internet Explorer. The text fields are not under eachother, as they should be (and are when viewed with Firefox), but there are 2 of them on one row and you have no idea what to enter in what text box.
But if you think this is confusing, that is nothing compared to what happens in the back-end when looking at template styles.
Just go to the back-end with IE and open Template Manager, click styles and then on one of the template styles. Just have a look at the part where you assign the style to menu selections to get really confused.
In IE it is just a bloody mess, and things are scattered around in such a way that you think you are looking at Hiroshima after the first nuclear bomb.
Do the same thing with Firefox, and all at a sudden things start to make sense.
I am not sure if this is an issue with the templates or something else, but is sure is a show-stopper. Although I personally am a big fan of using reliable, standards-based, browsers, it (unfortunately) is a fact of life that most of the visitors of the site use "Microsofts excuse for a web browser", they call Internet Explorer.
Does anyone have a solution for this, other than using a decent web browser?
I obviously cannot enforce what browser my visitors are using.
Kind regards,
Bert
But when using Internet Explorer (at least IE7 and IE8) many forms look like something the cat brought-in because lay-out is completely cluttered.
I installed Joomla! 1.6 RC1 with the example data.
From the front end, just click "Create account" to open the user registration form in Internet Explorer. The text fields are not under eachother, as they should be (and are when viewed with Firefox), but there are 2 of them on one row and you have no idea what to enter in what text box.
But if you think this is confusing, that is nothing compared to what happens in the back-end when looking at template styles.
Just go to the back-end with IE and open Template Manager, click styles and then on one of the template styles. Just have a look at the part where you assign the style to menu selections to get really confused.
In IE it is just a bloody mess, and things are scattered around in such a way that you think you are looking at Hiroshima after the first nuclear bomb.
Do the same thing with Firefox, and all at a sudden things start to make sense.
I am not sure if this is an issue with the templates or something else, but is sure is a show-stopper. Although I personally am a big fan of using reliable, standards-based, browsers, it (unfortunately) is a fact of life that most of the visitors of the site use "Microsofts excuse for a web browser", they call Internet Explorer.
Does anyone have a solution for this, other than using a decent web browser?
I obviously cannot enforce what browser my visitors are using.
Kind regards,
Bert