Re: FN-FORUM: IE Confusion

date posted 6th October 2006 10:56

Alex Libby wrote:
> Tony,
>
> I think I have found the answer to your problems:
>
> I have been able to replicate what I think is a very similar (if not
> identical) effect on my PC. I downloaded IE7 last night, to see if I could
> get the same effect; this was without success. It was not until I remembered
> that IE7 introduces controls over the style sheet used by a website; I know
> this sounds a little weird, but it is the same effect as switching the CSS
> style sheets used by CSSZengarden, but from within the browser, and not the
> website. IE6 has some controls, but these have been accentuated in IE7.
>
> If you have a look at Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility, there are
> three options in the Formatting boxout. They are: "Ignore colours specified
> on web pages", "Ignore font styles specified on web pages", and "Ignore font
> sizes specified on web pages". Switching all of these on, on my PC seems to
> produce an almost identical effect to the screen shot you posted; I would
> check to see if these have been switched on, on your PC. If they are, turn
> all three off, and hopefully it will restore what you should be seeing. If
> this is the fix, then quite why they were switched on, I do not know; I did
> a clean upgrade over IE6, and it may be that if you did yours over a
> slightly different version of IE6, then Windows might have had reason to
> switch these on - who knows? (By different versions, I mean updates, SP2,
> etc to a basic install of IE...)
>
> Hope this helps - I'd be interested to see what results you get..my
> apologies if this does not help!
>

Well I really thought this was it until I discovered the tickboxes were
all unchecked(doh). So I ticked them all refreshed(the look is very
similar but the font changes) and then unchecked them all to see if that
would shake things up and fix it but no joy there either.

At least there is an option to uninstall IE7 in add/remove progs (unlike
in the past)

Ju.