IE error displaying my site

Feb 13th, 2015 at 10:30 PM
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Sylvia Nickels
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I finally managed to get an RLM version of my website up that I can live with for now. Looked good in my PC test browsers, my phone, my Samsung tablet and my daughter's and my laptops. Then while talking to my friend she mentioned all this blank space below my header. Not supposed to be there. I couldn't figure why it was there on her computer. Light bulb moment. Her browser is still IE. I hadn't checked the site with it because I've come to hate IE! So I did check it with IE, that's what it was. I think there's a code to persuade IE to render things sorta, maybe the way you want. But I can't find it and don't know where to put it if I found it. The Nav row just below the header does not display correctly. Instead of lining up across the screen below the header, in IE it lines up down the left side. Here's the Nav row code:
body > .row.Nav-row {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
padding-bottom: 0;
min-height: 45px;
max-width: none;
width: 100%;
border-top: 1px solid #592e24;
border-right: 2px solid #592e24;
border-bottom: 2px solid #592e24;
border-left: 2px solid #592e24;
background-color: transparent;
}
And here's the link to my website. It isn't very sophisticated, but neither am I! :/
http://www.ramblinscribe.com
Thanks for any help,
Sylvia
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Feb 14th, 2015 at 07:10 AM
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Eric Rohloff
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What version of IE were you using to test? I'm not seeing any blank space in IE 11.
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It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.
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Feb 14th, 2015 at 07:17 AM
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Brian Durfee
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I checked the site in IE and it looks just fine to me. I have IE 11. What version are you using?
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Feb 14th, 2015 at 10:58 AM
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Sylvia Nickels
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Thank you, Eric and Brian. I have IE 8, my ancient Windows XP won't take a higher, which I don't care. Not sure about my friend, most likely the same since she uses XP, too..I'm relieved, won't worry about it.
Thanks again,
Sylvia
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Feb 14th, 2015 at 12:05 PM
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paintbrush
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Sylvia, in the HTML editor, add a link to the html5 shiv in your <head>.
https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html5shiv/3.7.2/html5shiv.js

The HTML5 Shiv enables use of HTML5 sectioning elements in legacy Internet Explorer and provides basic HTML5 styling for Internet Explorer 6-9, Safari 4.x (and iPhone 3.x), and Firefox 3.x.
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Feb 14th, 2015 at 12:21 PM
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Sylvia Nickels
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I will try that, Paintbrush. Thank you. I was kind of hoping there might be a workaround. Must go somewhere now, will try it when I get back home.
Sylvia
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Feb 14th, 2015 at 12:59 PM
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paintbrush
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Hope it's the magic bullet! :D
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Feb 14th, 2015 at 10:04 PM
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Sylvia Nickels
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Back at home while ago and got the IE problem worked out. I tried your link to the HTML5shim, Paintbrush, and couldn't get it to work. Even went to the cdnjs.cloudflare.com website and it's the correct link. So I searched on my two previous go-to html sites and found one that worked. it's a googlecode link to the shim and with it added to the <head> section, my friend's and my IE 8 displays the page correctly -
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
Thanks all for the advice,
Sylvia
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Feb 15th, 2015 at 11:52 AM
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paintbrush
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Glad you got it taken care of. Thanks for posting your link. I wasn't able to find the Google one, just this where it used to be:
"Project "html5shiv" has moved to another location on the Internet." – Which then provides the link to the CDN I posted.
I wonder why Google links to the outdated Cloudflare CDN rather than their own, which I finally found it here: https://code.google.com/p/html5shiv-printshiv/ :
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shiv-printshiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5shiv-printshiv.js"></script>
<![endif]-->




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Feb 15th, 2015 at 12:07 PM
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Sylvia Nickels
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:) I just try to follow and understand enough from you guys to do some of the things I want to do! Who knows why Google does some things they do. Saving your link in case mine quits working.
Sylvia
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