Internet Explorer 7 Bugs - incorrect display OR dead links

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Published on 2010-03-23T13:50:16Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 13:53 UTC
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Hi,

I recently launched a website I have been developing over the past year - http://Live.heritageartpapers.co.uk/. My dad, who owns the company, had a phone call today saying it doesnt display properly in IE7.

Bug #1: The header and footer are both in a div, whereas the content is in a table between the two divs. Reportedly the content (table) sometimes (not always, according to IETester) displays below the footer, but the footer still displays where it is supposed to (ie there is a massive gap where the content should fit).

Bug #2: When the content does display in the correct place, all the links on the page are dead - click on them and nothing happens. As you can see if you view it in Firefox (the version I am using is 3.6), the links in the left hand menu turn orange on mouseover. However they do not even do this in IE7. Note that they do turn orange and do work if the content is displayed below the footer.

I cant see why its happening - according to IETester, the IE7 interpreted source code has all the tags capitalised and many quotes removed (for example for the id attribute on most, if not all, tags) but I doubt this could cause the above bugs, could it?

My question is whether anyone has ever seen any of these problems before, and/or has a solution to any of these problems??

I currently do not have the application open, but will post any relevant code in a few minutes. Alternatively just use view source.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,

Richard Clarke

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