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Another IE (8 and less, I believe) gotcha is it only processes 4095 rules in a CSS file; you have to break large files into multiple chunks. More on this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9906794/internet-explorers-css-rules-limits Best, Eric Phetteplace Emerging Technologies Librarian Chesapeake College Wye Mills, MD On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Josh Wilson <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > In looking quickly at your "not working in IE" example, it looks to me like > it does work in IE9 but not 8. So perhaps it works like you think it does, > only you're not seeing it because of IE's idiosyncrasies? Hope I'm > correctly understanding your question. > > A few common IE gotchas, if you haven't tried these already or aren't > accustomed to messing with IE much (F12 for developer tools - actually lots > of good stuff here for checking the DOM, stylesheets, network): > > *Be sure that IE is pretending to be the browser you think it is - check > the browser mode and document mode listed in the developer tools menu. IE > likes to switch modes for no good reason. > *IE can also be very aggressive about caching. There are cache settings you > can change in the developer tools but I find that they don't always work. A > full cache clear is sometimes what it takes to get the latest CSS update. > > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Ken Irwin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > I've been working on integrating some Bootstrap into our library website, > > and I've stumbled on weird thing that I can't explain: > > > > I'm using the basic bootstrap templates, straight out of the box with no > > customization, and the CSS feature that compresses the header on narrow > > screens doesn't work on IE(v9) on my library web server. But exactly the > > same code on my personal server works just fine. Both sets of code work > > fine in Chrome and Firefox. Both servers are some mix of Linux+Apache. > > > > Why would the same css work on one server but not another? > > > > I ran Fiddler to be sure that the css was actually being called, and it > is. > > > > I wonder if others will get the same results. > > > > Working in IE: > > Out of the box "hero" template: > > http://alltrees.org/ken/bootstrap/docs/examples/hero.html > > Just the responsive header (no JS, just relies on 2 css files): > > http://www.alltrees.org/ken/bootstrap/docs/examples/top-nojs.html > > > > Not working on IE: > > http://www6b.wittenberg.edu/lib/test/bootstrap/docs/examples/hero.html > > > http://www6b.wittenberg.edu/lib/test/bootstrap/docs/examples/top-nojs.html > > > > Any ideas? I'm mystified... > > > > Thanks > > Ken > > >