html5 + ie = lightbox_me fails

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html5 + ie = lightbox_me fails

Opened this issue 13 years ago · 5 comments

After much hair-pulling I have determined that html5 doctype breaks lightbox_me in ie (versions 7-9). All other browsers seem to work fine. Its hard to adequately debug the issue in ie, but $self.outerWidth() is a crazy large number and the positioning fails completely. Is this a known problem with html5?

Answer 1 · 2011-11-29T20:26:08.000Z

We haven't seen this behavior when using lightbox_me with Jive (which supports IE7 and is in HTML5). What version of jQuery are you running? I haven't tested it with the latest, and I know it has some HTML5 / IE7 ramifications that I haven't tested out yet.

Answer 2 · 2011-11-29T20:47:09.000Z

I am using 1.6.3 but I tried various older versions. The only thing that made it work was using a doctype. I used XHTML 1.0 Transitional that I copied from your demo page, haven't tried any others.

Answer 3 · 2012-01-18T18:17:12.000Z

I can confirm that with HTML 4.0 Transitional Lightbox_me will not work in IE.

Answer 4 · 2012-02-16T19:27:47.000Z

Thanks for tracking this down. I'll see if I can figure out what's going on.

Answer 5 · 2012-03-27T17:50:19.000Z

We are seeing the same issue in IE8 when using both

and

Using XHTML 1.0 works fine... however our website won't render properly with XHTML.