Posted by Els on 03/08/07 22:50

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
>> In article <36eea$45f02779$40cba7c3$27204@NAXS.COM>,
>> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I appreciate the help, I have to get the turkey out. Now I have to
>>> <shudder> break down and upgrade to XP Pro.
>>
>> ...go ahead and leave me to be the only turkey left in the world
>> with Win 2000 on my Win box.
>>
>
> The guy is telling me that he *does* have IE6 and not 7, but that the
> content text is missing. He says it is actually there but the same color
> as the background. It is visible if he selects it! I cannot get him to
> send me a screenshot yet, but the content is explicitly defined:
>
> #innerWrapper { border: .5em solid #8fbc8f; color: #000;
> background-color: #faf0e6; }

That sets the colours on the wrapper. I think that regardless of what
causes the problem, you can still make him see the text by setting the
same colours to the <p> elements as well.
Unless it's caused by position:relative on something that has
background-color, then you might need to give the <p> elements
position:relative too to make them appear 'in front of' its parent.
I've seen entire images disappear because of position:relative on a
(grand-)parent, and only got them to re-appear by giving them
position:relative as well...

> black on flesh color to match their site. I cannot get it to fail. Its
> got you be something specific to his browser. Some Yahoo|Whahoo Toolbar
> mucking things on something.

Do you know on what OS he is? I've noticed in the past that identical
browsers give different results between for instance XP and 2000.

> I have validated both the markup and the CSS...cannot see what the
> problem could be.

It's IE6 - validating won't help ;-)

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