Tony, you don't have a CSS problem. When I look at your page in IE9 and use the F12 key to inspect the DOM, the <body> element is empty!
Why would that be? Take a look at the IE conditional comment at the end of your <head>. Is that the right syntax? http://www.google.com/search?q=ie+conditional+comments -Mike p.s. For anyone following along, the actual site URL is: http://academyofleisuresciences.com/ On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Howard E. A. (Tony) Tinsley < howard.tins...@frontier.com> wrote: > I have completed a reasonable rough draft of a web site. Additional work is > needed to perfect the content and styling, but I just encountered a more > fundamental problem. I asked a number of people to test the site on their > local computers and the site displays "okay" in most browsers. However, > three people who use IE8 and IE9 report that all they can see when they go > to the site is a blue screen. When I tested the site in Adobe Browser Lab I > can see that the screen appears to be the color of the background color of > the site so I presume that is what is displaying. > > I presume the problem is due to some error in the styling but i am not even > sure of that. I have validated each of the html and css files and there are > no syntax errors. I attempted to research the problem on the Internet and > found some references to a similar problem when using gmail and when using > compatibility view. The former is not relevant in this instance and from the > description it seems unlikely that compatibility view is the culprit. > However, I just don't know. > > The site is here: academy of leisuresciences.com. > > The css is here: > academyofleisuresciences.com/**css/<http://academyofleisuresciences.com/css/>... > > the css files are named books.css, initialize.css, main.css, and print.css. > However, only the initialize and main css files are called by the home page. > > I would appreciate any help you can provide. > > > > -- > Tony > > Tony Tinsley > 425.493.6833 > howard.tins...@frontier.com > ______________________________**______________________________**__________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/**mailman/listinfo/css-d<http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d> > List wiki/FAQ -- > http://css-discuss.incutio.**com/<http://css-discuss.incutio.com/> > List policies -- > http://css-discuss.org/**policies.html<http://css-discuss.org/policies.html> > Supported by evolt.org -- > http://www.evolt.org/help_**support_evolt/<http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/> > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/