I have a form that is generated via ajax (facebox).
In FF, Chrome, IE > 8 it all works fine, however in IE < 9 the form has no styles.
What would be causing this*?
*some effects are missing due to CSS3, but css3 is not height/width/padding.
Using IE’s “element source with style” on the group name input gives:
IE8
<html>
<head><style>
BODY
{
color: #4f5155;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
background-image: url("../images/pageBackground.png");
background-attachment: scroll;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position-x: center;
background-position-y: top;
background-color: rgb(58, 58, 58);
}
#facebox
{
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
text-align: left;
position: absolute;
z-index: 100;
}
#facebox .popup
{
position: relative;
}
#facebox .content
{
width: 370px;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
display: table;
background-image: none;
background-attachment: scroll;
background-repeat: repeat;
background-position-x: 0%;
background-position-y: 0%;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
}
</style></head>
<body><div id="facebox" style="left: 477px; top: 40px;"><div class="popup"><div class="content"><div class="inputSeperator">
<input name="name" type="text" />
</div></div></div></div></body></html>
IE9
<html>
<head><style>
body
{
color: #4f5155;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
background-image: url("../images/pageBackground.png");
background-attachment: scroll;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position-x: center;
background-position-y: top;
background-size: auto;
background-origin: padding-box;
background-clip: border-box;
background-color: rgb(58, 58, 58);
}
form#newForm
{
width: 500px;
padding-top: 16px;
padding-right: 16px;
padding-bottom: 16px;
padding-left: 16px;
font-weight: normal;
border-top-color: #e5e5e5;
border-right-color: #e5e5e5;
border-bottom-color: #e5e5e5;
border-left-color: #e5e5e5;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-right-width: 1px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
border-top-left-radius: 5px;
border-top-right-radius: 5px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 5px;
border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;
box-shadow: 0px 4px 18px rgba(200,200,200,1);
background-image: none;
background-attachment: scroll;
background-repeat: repeat;
background-position-x: 0%;
background-position-y: 0%;
background-size: auto;
background-origin: padding-box;
background-clip: border-box;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
}
form#newForm input[type='text'], form#newForm input[type='password'], form#newForm textarea, form#newForm select
{
width: 97%;
color: #555;
padding-top: 3px;
padding-right: 3px;
padding-bottom: 3px;
padding-left: 3px;
font-size: 16px;
margin-top: 2px;
margin-right: 6px;
margin-bottom: 16px;
border-top-color: #e5e5e5;
border-right-color: #e5e5e5;
border-bottom-color: #e5e5e5;
border-left-color: #e5e5e5;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-right-width: 1px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
background-image: none;
background-attachment: scroll;
background-repeat: repeat;
background-position-x: 0%;
background-position-y: 0%;
background-size: auto;
background-origin: padding-box;
background-clip: border-box;
background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);
}
#facebox
{
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
text-align: left;
position: absolute;
z-index: 100;
}
#facebox .popup
{
border-top-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);
border-right-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);
border-bottom-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);
border-left-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);
border-top-width: 3px;
border-right-width: 3px;
border-bottom-width: 3px;
border-left-width: 3px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
position: relative;
border-top-left-radius: 5px;
border-top-right-radius: 5px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 5px;
border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 18px rgba(0,0,0,0.4);
}
#facebox .content
{
width: 370px;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
display: table;
border-top-left-radius: 4px;
border-top-right-radius: 4px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 4px;
border-bottom-left-radius: 4px;
background-image: none;
background-attachment: scroll;
background-repeat: repeat;
background-position-x: 0%;
background-position-y: 0%;
background-size: auto;
background-origin: padding-box;
background-clip: border-box;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
}
</style></head>
<body><div id="facebox" style="left: 397.5px; top: 40.5px;"><div class="popup"><div class="content"><form id="newForm" action="none" method="POST"><div class="inputSeperator">
<input name="name" type="text" />
</div></form></div></div></div></body></html>
Found out what it was,
malformed html,
If you have a look at the html there is an extra ending div.
for some reason this was causing ie8 to simply discard the actual form elements, absolutely strange behavior…