Title: css problems
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# css problems

 *  [nessler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nessler/)
 * (@nessler)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-problems-10/)
 * I have been trying to make my site look good in IE but it’s a hell.
    Had several
   hints and tips on here but none worked so far…
 * [http://www.fortherestless.com/news.php](http://www.fortherestless.com/news.php)
   shows the way I want to in FF,
    however in different versions of IE there are
   different problems.
 * (Using Adobe’s testlab for different browsers as tester).
 * I included a style sheet especiially for IE, but not much luck as of now.
 * in IE6 the headers are still white, and the posts are in a grey backround instead
   of darkblue,
 * In IE7 and IE8 the headers are still white,
 * and in IE9 the colours are correct but the fifth post suddenly still shifts. 
   Could it be that the sidebar which I left out, is somehow still causing this ?
   Or is there something in the css missing or a clash of two codes, I’m missing
   them completely…
 * Any ideas ?
 * [http://www.fortherestless.com/screen.css](http://www.fortherestless.com/screen.css)
   is the main css used
    [http://www.fortherestless.com/forms/newz/wp-content/themes/wpthemegen/style.css](http://www.fortherestless.com/forms/newz/wp-content/themes/wpthemegen/style.css)
   [http://www.fortherestless.com/forms/newz/wp-content/themes/wpthemegen/ie.css](http://www.fortherestless.com/forms/newz/wp-content/themes/wpthemegen/ie.css)
 * and finally the two headers I’m using for the main page and the archive.
    [http://www.fortherestless.com/forms/newz/wp-content/themes/wpthemegen/header.php](http://www.fortherestless.com/forms/newz/wp-content/themes/wpthemegen/header.php)
   [http://www.fortherestless.com/forms/newz/wp-content/themes/wpthemegen/header-special.php](http://www.fortherestless.com/forms/newz/wp-content/themes/wpthemegen/header-special.php)

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-problems-10/#post-2219091)
 * start by fixing the validation errors: [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fortherestless.com%2Fnews.php&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fortherestless.com%2Fnews.php&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website](http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website)
 *  Thread Starter [nessler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nessler/)
 * (@nessler)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-problems-10/#post-2219107)
 * ok thanks, I started but I hit a problem I have been trying to solve before but
   got no reply to.
 * My site existed before I started using wordpress, thus there already is an external
   header I use for all pages, except those I use with wordpress blogs.
    those pages
   are news.php, diary.php and media.php. These 3 still have a header in the php
   file itself (for now).
 * I call my blog using the short and sweet code, but then it also loads
    the scond
   header and I can’t make the suggested changes there since the blog ceizes to 
   exist.
 * so the best thing I need to do is to combine the headers, but I am failing in
   doiing so.
 * any tips ?
 * I uploaded the fiels in a zip file, just to be sure
    [http://www.fortherestless.com/ftr.zip](http://www.fortherestless.com/ftr.zip)
 * Cleared op a few errors, 67 still to go…
 * thanks for your help in advance !
 *  Thread Starter [nessler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nessler/)
 * (@nessler)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-problems-10/#post-2219131)
 * ok I fixed most things, however the recurring one is this
 * Line 219, Column 4: element “h9” undefined
 * h9 is defined in the style.css as such
 *     ```
       h9{
       	font-family: "Trebuchet MS";
       	font-size: 16px;
       	color: #10A7CD;
   
       }
       h9 span{
       	font-family: "Trebuchet MS";
       	font-size: 14px;
       	font-style: italic;
       	color: #FFFFFF;
       	margin-left: 2em;
   
       }
       ```
   
 * I needed to make a change in the header calling, as the classes returned errors
   on the validator so it is called like this at the moment.
 *     ```
       <div class="itemhead">
       <h9><?php the_title(); ?><span><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></span></h9> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> -->
                                                 </div>
       ```
   
 * Only in IE this is not working, I inserted an IE only css but it’s not working
   so far…
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-problems-10/#post-2219132)
 * There is no HTML H9 tag. Remove that CSS.
 *  Thread Starter [nessler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nessler/)
 * (@nessler)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-problems-10/#post-2219136)
 * remove the whole blurb of h9{…h9 span } ?
    or the complete style.css ?
 * but what will make it look like the way it should ? blue and the date in italics
   and white…
 * I’m afraid I don’t quite follow, please elaborate if you can 🙂
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-problems-10/#post-2219137)
 * The whole blurb of h9{…h9 span }.
 *  Thread Starter [nessler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nessler/)
 * (@nessler)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-problems-10/#post-2219138)
 * ok, I got your point.
    IE supports up to h6, so I renamed h9 to h6 and this seems
   to work !
 * however the padding in the archive is now all messed up, the op and bottom of
   the headers is way too large, plus the italics are also in bold now.
 * any clues ?
 * I hope this is the last of consequence problems in the long list of this thing.
 * “edit: fixed the padding, now the bold”
    “edit: fixed that too, the rest.css 
   was missing from the archive page header”

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