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1. Re: font-weight:bold; - works in firefox, safari, internet explorer 6 BUT NOT ie7
MurraySummers Dec 28, 2010 8:49 AM (in response to adobe1kenobe066)Give us a link to the live page so we can see this, please.
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2. Re: font-weight:bold; - works in firefox, safari, internet explorer 6 BUT NOT ie7
adobe1kenobe066 Dec 28, 2010 9:07 AM (in response to MurraySummers)Thanks for the speedy feedback.
It's www.solarinkgraphics.com - right on the home page.
• if you scroll down there's a blog of sorts, that contains DATES i.e. 'Sunday, December 10, 2010' [which doesn't want to BOLD in ie7 for some reason]
Again any help will save me from going mental. Thanks.
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3. Re: font-weight:bold; - works in firefox, safari, internet explorer 6 BUT NOT ie7
Nancy O. Dec 28, 2010 9:27 AM (in response to adobe1kenobe066)Start by validating your code and fix reported errors. Some browsers are less tolerant of errors than others.
Example, Font-weight:none is not valid CSS code. Height: 0 is not valid. Min-height: 200px is valid.
CSS Errors ~
HTML Errors ~ (Note: an ID can be used only 1 time per page. Class names can be re-used as often as needed)
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.solarinkgraphics.com%2F
Nancy O.
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4. Re: font-weight:bold; - works in firefox, safari, internet explorer 6 BUT NOT ie7
adobe1kenobe066 Dec 28, 2010 10:45 AM (in response to Nancy O.)You know I think you might be on to something.
I remember seeing ie7 display something along the lines of 'page done but with errors' in the status bar.
I wondered about that, but the truth is I think the ie7 BOLD issue occured before I saw that particular error message. But I'm not 100% sure about that so it's worth looking into. Plus I have no other leads.
...sounds like I have my work cut out for me, being that I never validated anything before. I thought I saw an internal Dreamweaver validating, or debugging, area somewhere within Dreamweaver itself.
In any case, I'll try to see how to go about validating my sites. First by starting with the links you provided.
Thanks Nancy O., if this works I'll apologize to everyone I laughed at who stressed the importance of site validation.
Seriously though thanks a lot.
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5. Re: font-weight:bold; - works in firefox, safari, internet explorer 6 BUT NOT ie7
adobe1kenobe066 Dec 28, 2010 6:00 PM (in response to Nancy O.)So it's still not BOLD in ie7.
- My css is validated.
- My HTML still shows 19 errors with 3 warnings, which is down from 31 errors with 3 warnings.
• Although most of these errors are directly from the 'Active Content' JavaScript that Dreamweaver places within your HTML when you insert Flash SWF files on your page. So I don't think I can even correct that.
• The next series of errors concern the P element. Which I think are because in 5 Paragraphs in a row, I gave them each the same relationship attribute (rel="lightbox[blog02]"). Why else would these paragraphs come up as errors when every other paragraph is perfectly fine? The errors the validator says are happening, aren't happening. It says that certain P tags aren't closed and it's not true, I can see with my own eyes that they are. I think the 'rel' values are confusing the validator?
All the major errors I took care of though. I replaced all the repeating ID attributes with CLASS attributes. I really thought that would have done it, but no. However, at least I'm no longer getting ID errors when attempting to validate.
So now I'm stumped.
I have no clue what to do next with something I thought would be so simple. I mean give me a break. I'm just trying to BOLD a line of text...smh.
So currently every browser, including the illicit ie6, shows the BOLD...BUT NOT IE7.
Sorry for the all caps, it's just so ridiculous to me.
Although I learned that validating your styles and sites is an important step in publishing your site. I also learned how to properly use ID and CLASS attributes.
However if anyone out there can point me in the right direction, it would still be very much appreciated. Thanks.
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6. Re: font-weight:bold; - works in firefox, safari, internet explorer 6 BUT NOT ie7
MurraySummers Dec 29, 2010 5:00 AM (in response to adobe1kenobe066)I agree that these validation errors are probably not what is responsible for the lack of a bold weight, but just to finish them up -
alt="retouchTest02" /></a></P>
Note the uppercase P!
Fixing that will remove all of the errors for those paragraphs.
Now - here's the shocking news. I believe that you *are* getting bold characters in IE7. It's just that they are small. At least it looks that way to me in IE tester....
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7. Re: font-weight:bold; - works in firefox, safari, internet explorer 6 BUT NOT ie7
adobe1kenobe066 Dec 29, 2010 11:49 AM (in response to MurraySummers)You were spot on Murray. Everything is solved.
• I lowercased the 'P' to a 'p' and that cleared that area of errors out. Which is good to know, just for future reference.
The Active Content errors remain, but that's just how Adobe rolls I guess. ..Out of my hands.
• Then aside from that, I increased the font-size from .85em to .9 em and then the bold finally showed itself in ie7. [ended up having to make a third style sheet specifically for ie7, and at the same time implementing another internet explorer conditional statement...crazy]
You know what's rediculous about it, is that I suspected that to a degree, but the fact that it showed up in ie6 deterred me from actually testing it out in higher sizes. What's even funnier is that I remember experimenting with different units, but visually trying to keep it the same size. Cause I thought switching from '%' to 'ems' would help...and you would think that I would have stumbled upon a bigger size so that I could see it become BOLD...but noooo. Well I'm glad I didn't because I learned a lot from not figuring things out on my own.
In any case I'm glad I can rest easy. Thanks again to all that lent a hand.



