I just worked on my Sport Training Programs website (shameless seo) for over three hours on a problem that doesn’t exist.
If you’re using Zen Theme for Drupal 5 or 6 and your page is loading incorrectly in Internet Explorer IE6 or IE7 (namely, your page is loading without css), consider that Internet Explorer can load a maximum or 31 .css files. Boy that is interesting…wish I’d known it before. Zen theme without any modules gets pretty close to this out of the box. This is a very easy fix in a drupal install, just turn on css aggregation in /admin/setttings/performance.
I learned this after completely validating my css, ripping the guts out of my .tpl.php and template.php files, eating a sandwich and disabling 6 or 7 modules.
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Hi,
Thank you soooo much. It saved my day! I did everything I could think of to debug this problem. But after 2.5 hours struggle, I saw your post.
Good work
Lipu
Holy crap! Thanks for posting this. I was pulling my hair out and pretty much ran through the same debugging as you. Thank you thank you thank you.
Thanks so much… I’ve just gone through the same process. You know, examining my css, validating it and ending with the same result, styles not being recognised by this bloody browser… I’m glad I found this.
31 seems like a totally stupid number for a limit, by the way.
Also ran into problems with own created zen-subtheme. In IE7, IE8, Firefox everything looks OK, but in IE 6 the content is narrowed too much. Also tried your solution, but that does not work,
http://abc.kleinestappen.nl/vo/voortgezet-onderwijs-vo (in IE6)
all tips/help greatly appreciated!
Tammo
Tammo…welcome to IE6 CSS hell. I glanced at your link but you’re in site maintenance mode so I couldn’t see what you’re doing. Good luck!
Amazing! Thank you.
You are a life saver… thanks so much for that info… it works
Many thanks… I’m using the Mac to develop a site and wasn’t worrying about checking for IE compatibility yet; when the client got back to me to say the site looked awful I spent hours trying to figure it out… worked perfectly when I turned on CSS aggregation.
31 CSS terror! thanks