IE8

Unfortunately, Preference Lite (or my Pro version) are not fully supportive with ie8 at this time. I have started updating my other themes for ie8, but Preference has not been done yet. As to when I will be able to get that done, it’s hard to say because of my extremely tight schedule. I would like to try and do it by the end of this month, but the likelihood of that is very small. More likely in January.

The problem is that ie8 does not support the newer styling and design methods of themes and websites that now use HTM5, CSS3, and even media queries (used for responsive sites and other things).

As a side note, I know some people are using ie8 and others have no choice because they are on Windows XP. Anything above ie8 is not compatible on XP (which is odd), but a lot of developers and other sources are dropping ie8 support…even Google made the announcement they are no longer supporting it. I even found out the commenting system Disqus does not display comments now with ie8 for major sites.

An interesting quote from an article:

It’s no longer about the cost of change, now it’s about the cost of not changing.

At the end of 2014, I won’t be coding for ie8 anymore with new themes. Something to consider too ie8 Countdown

I cannot promise anything but if you could please provide a link to your site I will take a quick look. I will use my IE 11 in ie8 mode to see what happens. If it’s an easy fix, I can probably do something for the time being.

Thanks for the link…to get started, did you make any modifications to the theme files? Also, did you make a custom menu or using a default menu?

I found some things, but with your content and coding which I appears to be most of the cause of your issues in ie8. I realized that I actually did make Preference Lite almost 100% compatible in ie8.

First thing I found:

In your child theme style.css, you have this:

menu-primary-menu.nav-menu {

Problem is that first part needs the ID part like this:

#menu-primary-menu.nav-menu

Plus….you need a closing curly bracket for it as well, even though there is no style attributes there.

Second thing is with your front page image boxes (in the widgets), which I will post just the content from the text widget only.

<p><a href="http://www.westendtablecraft.com.au/benches"><img src="http://www.westendtablecraft.com.au/wp-content/themes/preference-lite-child/images/bench-set.jpg" width="265" height="180" alt="Quality wooden bench sets" class="imageborder" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"</p><p>Quality wooden picnic table and bench designs designed to suit any outdoor area!</p>

Your <img> tag has no closing: />

Third thing is…you made some modifications for the main menu which are causing some minor layout issues in mobile view. Also make sure that you make a custom menu and not the default “page” menu WP does; a custom menu is what the theme is styled for.

The fourth thing is… did you copy your content from another source? I noticed a ton of inline styling throughout your page content. This could have some influence on how the pages and site looks. If you did copy from another source, copying also copies inline styling of elements such as this one line from a page:

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'PT Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">

….way too much css in your content code.

Now for my end… ie8 is ignoring a script that is supposed to help ie8 understand HTML 5 elements, but it’s ignoring them. So I have to figure this one out as the same script works for my other themes.

UPDATE: I found the issue. I totally left a javascript file empty. I seriously need a vacation. I added the code and sure enough, things are working.

I will be uploading this update for Preference Lite today, but you can contact me from my website Contact Me to get a new copy right away.

You’re very welcome… regarding copied styling…if you are happy with how things look after, then you can leave them in. Cleaning out the inline styles looks like it would be a big job, but again, if after the update I sent you works, then you should be ok.

Awesome! I’m glad it worked out, plus Preference Lite is now available for ie8 too.