Links won't work in IE7

First of all, let me say I've had very little training in html and probably know just enough to be dangerous. I designed a website for my alumni association last summer using XHTML Transitional and CSS. I finally got around to posting it, but in the meantime IE7 came out. Everything looks fine in IE6 and FF, but when the page is opened in IE7 the links are dead. I've tried several fixes, but can't get anything to work. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

The URL to the site is: http://www.summersvillealumni.com.

The index page code is:

Expand|Select|Wrap|Line Numbers

 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html>

<head>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style2.css"/>
 
<title>SHS Alumni</title>

</head>
 
<body>

<img src="catface.gif" alt="wildcat" align="left" height="88" width="110"/>

<div id="header"> <font color="#000000"/>Summersville High School Alumni

<font size="5"/> <font color="#000000"/>Summersville, Missouri ~ Home of the Wildcats!

</div>
 
<div id="content">

<font color="red" size="3">Having trouble getting the links to work? If so, you're probably running Internet Explorer 7. I am aware of the problem and I'm working to figure out a solution. In the meantime, you can do a couple of things. You can download the Mozilla Firefox browser (if you don't already have it) and the site will run fine. OR you can uninstall Internet Explorer 7 which should revert you back to Internet Explorer 6. NOTE: IF YOU ARE USING WINDOWS VISTA, DO NOT UNINSTALL IE7!

 </font>

<h2>Welcome SHS Graduates</h2>

<font size="4">Welcome to the Summersville High School Alumni Association Home Page. This site has been designed to inform SHS graduates about Alumni events, to provide a way to keep in touch with former classmates and, maybe, to even locate long lost friends...

<br/>

<br/>

<font size="4">The website is pretty basic right now, but hopefully we'll be able to add things and keep it updated regularly. If you don't mind, take some time and let us know you've been here by signing the<a href="http://www.anvilbook.com/guestbook.php?lfann"><b> Graduate Guestbook</b></a> and check to see who else has logged on. There's a place for you to leave some basic information which might make it easier for you to be reached...perhaps in time for your next reunion.</font>

<br/>

<br/>

<i>If you just happened upon this site and aren't a Summersville graduate, we'd love it if you would sign the 

<a href="http://www.anvilbook.com/guestbook.php?lisafann"><b>Visitor Guestbook</b></a></i>

<br/>

<br/>

If you are the contact person for your class, please send me an email and let me know so I can add you to the class contacts list.

<br/>

<br/>

<b>Looking for a long lost classmate?</b>Try posting to the<a href="http://www.anvilbook.com/guestbook.php?fannlisa"> <b>Have You Seen?</b></a> section of the site. Also...check there in case anyone is looking for you. Just be careful not to post any information that is too personal.

<br/>

<br/>

<font size="4">Also, feel free to <a href="mailto:lfann@socket.net"> email </a>with suggestions and ideas to enhance the website. Be sure to tell other SHS Alumni about the site and encourage them to visit.</font>

<br/>

<br/>
 
<a href="http://www.summersville.k12.mo.us/Hschool.htm"><img src="cat.jpg" height="60px" width="60px"alt="wildcat"/><br/>Visit Summersville High School </a>

</font>
 
</div>
 
<div id="nav">

<font size="3">

<font color="#FFFFFF">Alumni Home</font>

<br/>

<br/>

<a href="history.html">Alumni History</a>

<br/>

<br/>

<a href="events.html">Upcoming Events</a>

<br/>

<br/>

<a href="contacts.html">Class Contacts</a>

<br/>

<br/>

<a href="officers.html">Past Alumni Officers</a>

<br/>

<br/>

<a href="Grad Classes.html">Class Lists</a>

<br/>

<br/>

<a href="reunion photos.html">Reunion Photos</a>

<br/>

<br/>

<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/summersville-alumni?hl=en">Alumni Discussion</a>

<br/>

<br/>

<a href="http://www.anvilbook.com/guestbook.php?lfann">Graduate Guestbook</a>

<br/>

<br/>

<a href="http://www.anvilbook.com/guestbook.php?lisafann">Visitor Guestbook</a>

<br/>

<br/>

<a href="http://www.anvilbook.com/guestbook.php?fannlisa">Have You Seen?</a>

<br/>

<br/>

<br/>

<br/>

<br/>

<br/>

<br/>

<br/>

</font>

</div>
 
<address><font size="2"/> <font color="#FFFFFF"/>

    Last Updated: June 23, 2007<br />

    Webmaster: Lisa Fann<br />

    Email: <a href="mailto:lfann@socket.net">lfann@socket.net</a><br />

  ©2006 Lisa Fann<br/>

    </address>
 
<p><font size="2"/> <font color="FFFFFF"/>Get a free guestbook at <br/> <a href="http://www.anvilbook.com">www.anvilbook.com </a></p>
 
 <p>

    <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img

        src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10"

        alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional" height="31" width="88" /></a>

  </p>
 
</body> 

</html>

The CSS code is:

Expand|Select|Wrap|Line Numbers

  
body { font-family:Arial; 

margin: 0px; 

background-color: #000000;

padding-left:5px }
 
#header { font: bold 48px Times;
 
padding-left: 180px;

padding-bottom:6px;

border-bottom:2px solid black;

background-color: #CCCC00;

margin-bottom: 0px }
 
#content { float: right;

padding: 1px 20px 1px 10px;

width:70%;

margin: 0px;

padding:25px;

border-left: 2px solid black;

background-color: #FFFFFF }
 
#nav { float: left;

width: 20%;

margin-top: 0px;

font-weight: bold;

padding: 20px;

border: none;

font-family: Arial }
 
#nav a { text-decoration: underline;

color: #CCCC00 }
 
#nav a:link { color:#CCCC00 }
 
#nav a:visited {color:#FFFF99}
 
#nav a:hover {color:#FFFF99}
 
#bottomleft {position:absolute; bottom:4px; left:6px }
 
td, th { padding: 3px;

border:4px solid #CCCC00;

background-color: #FFFF99;

text-align: left;

margin: 0px;

font-size:medium;}
 
h2 {margin-top: 10px }

Jun 27 '07 #1

Subscribe Post Reply

5566

bettor

Hi,
I copied your code and pasted it in an .html file on my PC and it worked just fine in IE 7. the only difference is that I pasted all your CSS code in the <head> section and did not include it as an external file. (this shouldn't be the problem but try it anyways)

Hopefully it helps.

Jun 27 '07 #2

justabeginner

I tried what you said, and the links do work, but all my formatting is wrong. There are no frames and the colors are wrong. Could you go to my URL and see if that works on your IE7?

http://www.summersvillealumni.com

Thanks!

Jun 27 '07 #3

bettor

I tried what you said, and the links do work, but all my formatting is wrong. There are no frames and the colors are wrong. Could you go to my URL and see if that works on your IE7?

http://www.summersvillealumni.com

Thanks!

...hm....what you would try is to add to your #nav in the CSS code: position:absolute; and then go to your <body> and erase the </div> at the end of the left-hand-side menu and move it at the end of the document just before your closing </body> tag. try and let me know if this works cause i didn't have much time to play around with it. Also try to put your menu in <p> menu </p> format just make it as a paragraph...

Jun 27 '07 #4

justabeginner

WOW! It worked! Now all I have to do is move the </div> on all my other pages linked to the stylesheet. I'll post again if I encounter any more problems, but you seem to have solved this one.

I appreciate your quick response and the awesome advice. THANKS!!!

Jun 27 '07 #5

by: Konrad Mathieu | last post by:

Does this work in most browsers, namely MSIE? document.links.href or does it have to be document.links.href ?

Javascript

Links & Pictures

by: Mikaël Hautin | last post by:

Hi there, I'm Mikaël Hautin, a new one to this newsgroup. I will show you how to get rid of <a> tags to put links on pictures. When you want to put a link to another page on a picture, you...

Javascript

Extract links from Javascript (not using Javascript)?

by: chrisspencer02 | last post by:

I am looking for a method to extract the links embedded within the Javascript in a web page: an ActiveX component, or example code in C++/Pascal/etc. I am looking for a general solution, not one...

Javascript

bookmark links lost when paste-ing...

by: chris_culley | last post by:

Hi there.. I've got an HTML newsletter which I knocked together, and I want to paste the whole lot into an email to send out to the rest of the team / department / company... There are a...

HTML / CSS

Text-links using POST ?

by: Trammel | last post by:

Hi, Im just about to start developing a new website for personal / friend use that may be accessed by other people all over the web. I was sitting thinking through designs for the pages, etc when...

HTML / CSS

problem with links in mac ie 5.2

by: DJA | last post by:

Hello, I site I designed has links that don't seem to work in mac IE 5.2. In my site I'm using CSS to imitate image buttons by using the background image property along with a little extra...

HTML / CSS

Are drop-down menu links indexed?

by: Kaland | last post by:

Do the search engines follow links that are within forms (like the drop-down menu) so that those pages are indexed? Here is the code for a sample drop-down menu that I created. <form><select...

HTML / CSS

links not aligning right

by: Corey Walker | last post by:

Hello: I am a webmaster for a non-profit organization. I do know some HTML, but I'm by no means an expert. Recently, many pages on our site were redesigned by a professional web designer, who...

HTML / CSS

Safari, image maps, and links

by: David Stone | last post by:

Run into something recently that has left me a little puzzled. According to the examples in section 13.6.1 of html 4.01... <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#h-13.6.1.1> I...

HTML / CSS

How to turn on java script in a villaon keypad mobile phone

by: Charles Arthur | last post by:

How do i turn on java script on a villaon, callus and itel keypad mobile phone

Java

Batch import of multiple excel files into the database

by: ryjfgjl | last post by:

If we have dozens or hundreds of excel to import into the database, if we use the excel import function provided by database editors such as navicat, it will be extremely tedious and time-consuming...

Data Management

Merging data from multiple Excel files

by: ryjfgjl | last post by:

In our work, we often receive Excel tables with data in the same format. If we want to analyze these data, it can be difficult to analyze them because the data is spread across multiple Excel files...

Data Management

Migrating Website to Cloud - Emmanuel Katto

by: emmanuelkatto | last post by:

Hi All, I am Emmanuel katto from Uganda. I want to ask what challenges you've faced while migrating a website to cloud. Please let me know. Thanks! Emmanuel

General

Navigating the Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA)

by: BarryA | last post by:

What are the essential steps and strategies outlined in the Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) roadmap for aspiring data scientists? How can individuals effectively utilize this roadmap to progress...

Algorithms / Advanced Math

Is that possible of reading the .csv file in column wise and the column have different lengths ?

by: Sonnysonu | last post by:

This is the data of csv file 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 3 2 3 3 the lengths should be different i have to store the data by column-wise with in the specific length. suppose the i have to...

C / C++

How to build RAID in BIOS?

by: Hystou | last post by:

There are some requirements for setting up RAID: 1. The motherboard and BIOS support RAID configuration. 2. The motherboard has 2 or more available SATA protocol SSD/HDD slots (including MSATA, M.2...

Computer Hardware

Problem With Comparison Operator <=> in G++

by: Oralloy | last post by:

Hello folks, I am unable to find appropriate documentation on the type promotion of bit-fields when using the generalised comparison operator "<=>". The problem is that using the GNU compilers,...

C / C++

Maximizing Business Potential: The Nexus of Website Design and Digital Marketing

by: jinu1996 | last post by:

In today's digital age, having a compelling online presence is paramount for businesses aiming to thrive in a competitive landscape. At the heart of this digital strategy lies an intricately woven...

Online Marketing

Links won't work in IE7

Similar topics