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Asked: 2026-05-14T09:37:23+00:00

So I built some complex ajaxy jquery module on my homepage, with the help

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So I built some complex ajaxy jquery module on my homepage, with the help of “scrollable” from flowplayer.org.

It works fine for me on Chrome, Opera, Firefox … but of course IE is not playing friendly (regardless of the version, from my testing).

Objects are not displaying exactly where they should, some are overlaying each other, and when a click a button some divs just disappear.

However, if I resize the IE browser window up and down, the display mostly fixes itself.
Then if I click on one of the buttons I made, it messes it up again. Until I resize the window again and it looks fine.

To see the problem:

(note the forceshowIE=1, because by default I hide it for IE people)

I was thinking maybe there is a way to force IE to redraw the entire module sometimes?
Or maybe someone has a better idea on how to fix the underlying problem?

Source code is available here:

http://www.makemeheal.com/mmh/scripts/recentHistory.js

http://www.makemeheal.com/mmh/styles/recentHistory.css

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are missing a doctype declaration at the top of the file, this is causing IE to revert to quirks mode. Providing a doctype will cause IE to render in standards mode. (cant say IE6 will still behave, but IE7/IE8 should be more consistent with the other browsers)

    Try putting this at the top of the main file:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

    Hopefully that fixes it.

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