HTML5 Navigation and IE Compatibility Mode

[jondonley]

Hello!

I've been unable to find anyone else with the following question on these boards but: has anyone else noticed that Genesis 2.0 HTML5 templates don't display navigation menus horizontally in Compatibility Mode?

Does this mean that this is what users are seeing with old versions of browsers/IE that are not HTML5 compatible?

Compatibility Mode Off:

Compatibility Mode On:

Thanks for your help!

[RobG]

Well it is not good practice to use out dated web browsers for a number of reasons. When I build a website I build according to the mose recent browsers.

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[jondonley]

In an ideal world, yes, we would all use the most up-to-date browsers. Unfortunately most of our audience won't be up-to-date! So I'm hoping that there is a fix to this so that we can have navigation menus look the same (or at least resemble) the way we see it on an HTML5 compliant browser.

Any ideas?

[pagerank]

I am having the same issue. Did you find a way to fix this?

[codezen8]

Although it's nice to say you should only support newer browsers, that is not an acceptable option for a lot of sites. Many of my corporate customers must still use IE including IE7 for internal applications that don't run in compatibility mode. They also do not generally allow their users to use any other browsers.

IE7 does not support display:inline-block. To fix this find the style for the menu, and after display:inline-block; add the lines for zoom: and *display:

.genesis-nav-menu .menu-item {
    display: inline-block;
    zoom:1;
    *display: inline;
    margin: 0 -4px 0 0;
    padding: 0;
    text-align: left;
}

This works for me in the HTML5 themes. You can't just change to inline for all or it won't work in modern browsers.

[chalfant]

Using the new Magazine Pro theme html5

Well, all I know is that wordpress does not like IE 11 or 10.
Switching to compatibility mode at times allows for edits but generally I am unable to.

Been trying to build a site for a few months and keep getting error messages from WP that I'm using an insecure browser.
Chrome or Firefox are not options as they won't display properly on my computer.
Relevant?

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