Profile Tabs and Internet Explorer

[Kaelon]

Strangely, the Profile Tabs aren't displaying in Internet Explorer on my style (but they are displaying here on vBulletin.com). I reverted MEMBERINFO, reverted my Advanced CSS options, but still, no luck. The tabs display just fine in all other browsers, however (tested on Opera and Firefox). Here's the example:

http://www.aelyria.com/forums/members/kaelon.html

Any thoughts as to what can be causing the rendering issue on Internet Explorer?

[Steve Machol]

Try this. Create a new style and choose no parent style. This will force it to use the default templates. Then change to this style and view your forums with it. Do you have the same problem?

[Kaelon]

Try this. Create a new style and choose no parent style. This will force it to use the default templates. Then change to this style and view your forums with it. Do you have the same problem?
Odd. It works with the default templates.

Doesn't work -- http://www.aelyria.com/forums/members/kaelon.html?styleid=14
Works -- http://www.aelyria.com/forums/members/kaelon.html?styleid=15

Which templates should I be looking at? It's very curious that the tabs are rendering just fine in the other browsers.

[Ipuck]

I have the same problem too. I have only modify the "Header" and "Footer" templates.

[Kaelon]

I have the same problem too. I have only modify the "Header" and "Footer" templates.
Curious. Do you have custom CSS settings? Can you provide some links?

Anyone else having this problem? It seems really arbitrary that all other browsers would display the tabs on our themes correctly, but not the most populous browser out there.

[Ipuck]

Curious. Do you have custom CSS settings?
Nop

I revert the the header and is working OK. But I still need to include my logo. I'll let you know if I find something.

[Kaelon]

Aha! You're right - it's definitely something with the header template. Not sure exactly what it is, though. I'm debugging it now.

Basically, I added my header to the default template and the tabs stopped working in IE. I feel like we're getting down to the bottom of this. Thanks!

Update: From what I can tell, it looks like any style that has tables enclosing the main page content will not render the tabs on Internet Explorer. Can anyone else verify this? If this is accurate, than many, if not most, styles will be incompatible on Internet Explorer with these tabs since tabular design components are de facto standards, even if they aren't W3C accepted onces.

[Ipuck]

Yes. That is the problem.

I remove the outer table and all the tab are back ON.

<div align="center">
<table border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" bgcolor="#00003C" width="980px">

Any ideas how can we make it work?

Update:
I just removed the table and change the size of the forum in the "StyleVars" I added the table to change the size of the forum. For some reason it didn't worked before.

[Kaelon]

Yes. That is the problem.

I remove the outer table and all the tab are back ON.

<div align="center">
<table border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" bgcolor="#00003C" width="980px">

Any ideas how can we make it work?

Update:
I just removed the table and change the size of the forum in the "StyleVars" I added the table to change the size of the forum. For some reason it didn't worked before.
Can you give me an example of what you changed, step-by-step?

Can you also show me what your current header looks like? Do you have a link you can share? Thanks!

[Ipuck]

Here is the link to the forums: http://forums.lexushelp.com/

I just removed the piece of code I posted before.

Post your header code here and I may be able to tell you what to remove.

Update:
I just looked at your forum, and it looks very complicated with that background. You may have to contact the designer. You should use a background image instead of all those tables around the forum. BTW it looks good, but with all those member and posts you should wait until the forums goes gold.

[Kaelon]

I just figured it out - it was a tables issue.

[Abjds.com]

I just needed to post and say bless you so much for figuring this out. :D All the many styles I run on my forum were showing this exact problem, and I couldn't figure it out.. and for the life of me would never have thought that this was the problem! Thank you so much for saving me hours of frustration and tearing out my hair!

[Kaelon]

I just needed to post and say bless you so much for figuring this out. :D All the many styles I run on my forum were showing this exact problem, and I couldn't figure it out.. and for the life of me would never have thought that this was the problem! Thank you so much for saving me hours of frustration and tearing out my hair!
My pleasure! I'm glad that I could finally figure something out and contribute for a change. ;)

[obmob]

So bad, it didn't work on my style, maybe I have too much tables?

I made sure to revert the member template, and also added the extra CSS entries in the header.

So, i checked the footer as you guys did, i moved my external </table> before that jscript, but still, i get the same problem. :(

Attached an image.

[Kaelon]

Your issue appears to be totally different - instead of missing tabs, all of your content is posted on a single page. I'm not sure how to help with that.

[obmob]

Oh, yeah, it seems my modifications to the "headerinclude" template were messing around. I reverted once again and modified carefully, now it works, thanks Kaelon. :D

[Justin98TransAm]

Mine is doing the same thing.. seems like if you mess with the header it jacks up the tab view for IE

[Saiger]

Is there any way to get this working without having to take out tables? The forum I design for uses tables for it's wrapper design quite heavily and it'd be a pain to have to redesign it using css.

It's definitely the outer table that causes this problem.

[pete_brady]

Is there any way to get this working without having to take out tables? The forum I design for uses tables for it's wrapper design quite heavily and it'd be a pain to have to redesign it using css.

It's definitely the outer table that causes this problem.
or is it possible even to have the specific table issue identified, if that indeed is what's causing the problem?

see: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1484837&postcount=4

[Knight]

But, on my site, everything is messed up using internet Explorer :S like even the nav bars are gone...

[begore]

Mike's solution here (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=24358) has solved the problem for me.

[lovevn]

Aha! You're right - it's definitely something with the header template. Not sure exactly what it is, though. I'm debugging it now.

Basically, I added my header to the default template and the tabs stopped working in IE. I feel like we're getting down to the bottom of this. Thanks!

Update: From what I can tell, it looks like any style that has tables enclosing the main page content will not render the tabs on Internet Explorer. Can anyone else verify this? If this is accurate, than many, if not most, styles will be incompatible on Internet Explorer with these tabs since tabular design components are de facto standards, even if they aren't W3C accepted onces.

The same problem here!

[xtremeoff-road]

AHhh I having the same issue :(

[Magnumutz]

Me too.

[Sal Collaziano]

Mike's solution here (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=24358) has solved the problem for me.
I've set this as the last thing in the footer - and I still have the issue.. Any more ideas?

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