IE6 compatibility problems

HTML & CSS
1

Hey,

A visitor to a site I built is experiencing a browser issue. I think they are using IE6 as the transparent images are appearing with a background colour.

Please see attached screen shot image. Is this an IE6 bug I will be able to over-write?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

www.lakecruises.com.au

CSS


* {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}

html, body {
	height: 100%;
	position: relative;
}

p {
	margin:0 0 1em;
	font-family: arial;
	font-size: 12px;
}

#background {
	background: #ece9e9 url('images/header.jpg') repeat-x;
	padding: 0 0 0;
}

#wrapper {
	width: 100%;
}

.wraptop, wrapbase {
	width:100%;
	background: #d5e0e7 url('images/top.gif') repeat-x 0 0;
	padding: 0 0;
}

.wrapbase {
	background: url('images/base.gif') repeat-x 0 100%;
	padding:0 0;
}

.content {
	width: 900px;
	margin: auto;
	min-height: 220px;
	margin-top: 5px;
	overflow:hidden;
}

* html .content {
	oveflow:visible;
	height:1%;
	height: 220px;
}

#top {
  background-image: url('images/top.jpg');
  position: absolute;
  margin-top: 121px;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100px;
}

#middle {
  background-image: url('images/middle.jpg');
  background-repeat: repeat-y;
  width: 100%;
  position: absolute;
  min-height: 200px;
  height: !important;
  height: 200px;
}

#bottom {
  background-image: url('images/bottom.jpg');
  position: absolute;
  width: 100%;
  height: 20px;
}

#header {
	width: 920px;
	height: 111px;
	padding-top: 10px;
	margin: auto;
}

#logoleft {
	width: 180px;
	height: 100px;
	background: url('images/logo.png') no-repeat;
}

#slogan {
	width: 383px;
	margin-left: 545px;
}

#nav {
	margin: auto;
	width: 920px;
	height: 30px;
	padding-top: 12px;
}

a.nav {
	color: #333333;
	text-decoration: none;
}

.navtext_home {
	font-family: arial;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-color: #333333;
	margin-right: 30px;
	margin-left: 12px;
}

.navtext_book {
	font-family: arial;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-color: #333333;
	margin-left: 10px;
}

.navtext {
	font-family: arial;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-color: #333333;
	margin-right: 30px;
	margin-left: 15px;
}

#photo_box {
	width: 410px;
	height: 250px;
	margin-right: 20px;
	margin-top: 12px;
}

#contentwrap {
	width: 900px;
	min-height: 100%;
	border: none;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	position: relative;
}

#content {
	width: 450px;
	height: auto;
	float: left;
	margin-top: 25px;
	margin-left: 0px;
}

#photo_box {
	width: 400px;
	height: 250px;
	float: right;
	margin-right: 20px;
	margin-top: 12px;
}

#footer {
	height: 249px;
	margin: 0 0 0;
	position: relative;
	clear: both;
	margin-top: 20px;
}

#footer_inner {
	width: 900px;
	height: 200px;
	margin: 0 auto;
}

#footer_content_left {
	width: 255px;
	height: 100px;
	color: #fdfd85;
	float: left;
	font-family: arial;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	line-height: 17px;
	background-color: #860000;
	padding: 10px;
	margin-left: 2px;
}

#footer_content_centre {
	width: 255px;
	height: 100px;
	float: left;
	color: #fdfd85;
	font-family: arial;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	margin-left: 35px;
	line-height: 17px;
	background-color: #860000;
	padding: 10px;
}

#footer_content_right {
	width: 255px;
	height: 100px;
	float: left;
	color: #fdfd85;
	font-family: arial;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	margin-left: 35px;
	line-height: 17px;
	background-color: #860000;
	padding: 10px;
}

.quick_links {
	text-align: center;
	font-family: arial;
	font-size: 10px;
}

.copy {
	text-align: center;
	font-family: arial;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #333333;
}

a.quicklinks {
	color: #333333;
	text-decoration: none;
}

/* view services roll-over on index page */

.view {
	display: block;
	width: 153px;
	height: 25px;
	background: url("images/view-services.png");
	float: right;
	margin-right: 10px;
}

.view:hover {
	background-position: 0 25px;
}

.view span {
	display:none;
}
2

Hi that’s because they are PNGS and IE6 doesn’t have support for transparent PNGs
http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/

3

Thanks for the tip Ryan. Do you know how I can fix the browser issue?

4

I gave you a link which points out how to fix the image issue :slight_smile:

5

If I changed the images to GIF would that fix the browser issue without having to add the code provided in your link?

6

Yes, gifs also have 1bit transparency (apposed to 256 of png) so the image quality would be reduced but in short yes that would solve your issue :slight_smile:

You could use a conditional comment to feed IE6 the .gifs, that way all other browsers would get to see the better images :slight_smile: