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Hi,

My WEBSITE WORKS IN FIREFOX BUT NOT INTERNET EXPLORER 6 AND 7. Please help
me.

Thanks,

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and reported pages that render in Firefox but fail in older Internet Explorer; asked for the address. Common root causes for those symptoms include missing/incorrect DOCTYPE (quirks mode), JavaScript runtime errors that stop execution (trailing commas, unguarded console.log), CSS rules/features unsupported by IE6/7, and legacy PNG/alpha issues in IE6.

A practical diagnostic sequence that has helped in similar threads:

  • Validate HTML and CSS first (quick surface check).
  • Confirm a standards DOCTYPE; an easy modern choice is shown below.
  • Reproduce the problem in the actual legacy engine (virtual machines or compatibility testers).
  • Enable script error reporting or search the JS for console.log calls and trailing commas — either will break scripts in old IE.
  • Isolate the problem by temporarily disabling JavaScript and then by commenting half of the CSS to locate the offending rule.
<!DOCTYPE html>

A safe guard for console.log (to avoid silent crashes in old IE) is to ensure the console exists before calling it, for example by checking if (window.console && console.log).

Further reading: MDN on quirks vs standards mode (Quirks Mode and Standards Mode), the W3C validator (validator.w3.org), and Microsoft’s legacy IE testing VMs (). Note that IE6/7 are long out of support; continued compatibility work for them carries security and maintenance costs.

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Problem with th ebsite I think.
whats the address?

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Hi Friends, I am having the same issue...my website is working fine in firefor but have certain issues with internet explorer...... Can anyone Help!!!
url is

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