Question

I am using Twitter Bootstrap in my rails app. My navbar looks perfect in Firefox / Chrome / Safari (tested chrome on both a Mac & PC). In Internet Explorer, it looks ugly! Wrong colours & everything.

Any help you can provide would be appreciated. I can post whatever code would help.

Update

Here is all of the CSS where I override anything from bootstrap (brought into my app via sass-rails gem). Hopefully it pushes us in the right direction.

Note: Where I have color:#F8F8F8; below, I used to have #333. This is just one iteration of me trying to fix it. I’ve even tried changing the background color to #333334 as I think that my precompiler was changing #333333 to #333 (don’t know for sure though)

/*  Styling */

.navbar, .navbar-inner, .navbar-fixed-top, .container, #tabs .nav {
  border:none;
  background-image:none;
}

.navbar {

  font-size:14px;
  text-shadow:none;
  -webkit-box-shadow: none;
  -moz-box-shadow: none;
  box-shadow: none;

  .nav {
    float:right;
  }

  .brand {
    margin-left:30px;
    color:#333334;
    font-family: Georgia, serif
  }

  .navbar-inner {
      background-color: #F8F8F8;
      border-bottom-color: #E0E0E0;
      border-bottom-style: solid;
      border-bottom-width: 1px;
      color: #333334;
  }


}

.navbar .nav > li > a {
  text-shadow:none;
  color:#555555;
  background-color: transparent;
  cursor:pointer;

  &:hover {
    color:#E6E6E6;
  }
}

.navbar .nav .active > a, .navbar .nav .active > a:hover {
  background-color: transparent;
  color: #555555;
}

.navbar .nav .inactive > a:hover {
  color:#999999;
}

.navbar .nav > li > a.sign-in {
  color:#555555;
  padding-top:4px;
  padding-bottom:4px;
  margin-top:5px;
  margin-left:30px;
}

.navbar .nav > li > a.sign-in:hover {

  background-position: 0 0px;

}

.navbar .nav > li > a.active-button {
  background-color: #E6E6E6;
  background-image: none;
  border:1px solid #cccccc;
  border-radius:4px;
  box-shadow: none;
  cursor: pointer;
  opacity: 0.6499999761581421;
  outline-color: #555555;
  outline-style: none;
  outline-width: 0px;
  text-decoration: none;
  text-shadow: none;
  padding-top:4px;
  padding-bottom:4px;
  margin-top:5px;
}

I have also tried the following (in an attempt to explicitly override anything to do with gradients from Bootstrap):

body {
  color:#333334;
}

.navbar-inner {
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #F8F8F8, #F8F8F8);
  background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #F8F8F8, #F8F8F8);
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#F8F8F8), to(#F8F8F8));
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #F8F8F8, #F8F8F8);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #F8F8F8, #F8F8F8);
  background-image: linear-gradient(top, #F8F8F8, #F8F8F8);
}

.btn-navbar {
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #F8F8F8, #F8F8F8);
  background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #F8F8F8, #F8F8F8);
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#F8F8F8), to(#F8F8F8));
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #F8F8F8, #F8F8F8);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #F8F8F8, #F8F8F8);
  background-image: linear-gradient(top, #F8F8F8, #F8F8F8);
}

Yet another update

Fiddling around with the internet explorer developer tools leads me to believe the issue is this:

filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#FF333333',endColorstr='#F2222222', GradientType=0)

What is this? Do I need it? (Why does it not use the same gradients as firefox/chrome?) It comes from Bootstrap… I can try to override the colours in there because for whatever reason IE is interpreting FF333333 as that dark blue.

Answer 1

Turns out I was able to fix this by over-riding the default filter code generated by Bootstrap. Big thanks for Nathan and Andres! To override the code I had posted above, I added the following :

filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#F8F8F8', endColorstr='#F8F8F8', GradientType=0)

Hope this saves some pain for somebody….