IE 8 not displaying MasterPage and CSS

JTighe · February 16th, 2010, 07:50 PM

Hello,

I am up to chapter 8 and I have been using FireFox 3.5.7 with windows 7 to view all of my page changes. I had an issue with the vertical banner not showing up in the About Us page so I decided to switch rendering engines to IE 8, this is a FF plug in. The page that was displayed did not seem to be referencing the masterpage and its CSS. So I figured something screwy with the FF plugin so I decided to view the page with IE8 same problem. Also if I view the page using the VWD 2008 internal brower I get the same issue.

Now if I go to the www.planetwrox.com page with either IE 8 or the FF IE
Tab that displays just fine. I have tried to search the forum but I did not see anything close to my issue. Does anything strike you off the top of your head as to where I should start looking, or is their some quirk with IE 8 that I might need to account for?

Thanks.

JTighe · February 16th, 2010, 08:21 PM

Found the issue. With IE 8 the first time you view the page there is not Page.Theme to set and there is no Cookie everything null. Once you change the format then you have a cookie to get all of you data from.

Added this code.

Code:

    private string baseTheme = "DarkGrey";
    private void Page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        HttpCookie preferredTheme = Request.Cookies.Get("PreferredTheme");

        if (preferredTheme != null)
        {
            Page.Theme = preferredTheme.Value;
        }
        else
        {
            Page.Theme = baseTheme;
        }
    }

Now if I clear my cache and go to the page for the first time, at least as the browser believes it to be, I will default to the "DarkGrey" Theme. I briefly skimmed over Chapter 6 again and did not see anywhere that you added a default theme. If you did can you please let me know where? I may have an older copy.

Thanks again.

Imar · February 17th, 2010, 03:13 AM

Hi there,

The theme is set on the <pages /> element in web.config. Some exercises have you turn it on an off, so maybe you missed the turn on step?

Imar

JTighe · February 17th, 2010, 03:45 AM

Yep I found the step.

Thank you for the quick response.