# Is this IE or am I lame at coding?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-ie-or-am-i-lame-at-coding/271801>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [September 28, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-ie-or-am-i-lame-at-coding/271801 "2008-09-28T22:08:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![roob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@roob](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/roob)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-ie-or-am-i-lame-at-coding/271801/1 "2008-09-28T22:08:31Z")

</div>

I’m currently updating my website, and although I despise Internet Explorer, I still cater for it given it’s large market share. Anyway, here in lies the problem. As I’m using a Mac I have no real way or testing my website in Internet Explorer. I have access to one ‘test’ machine running IE7, but upon testing it became apparent that it failed to render my new website.

As far as I am aware I am using compliant CSS and HTML (Aptana Studio has validated it, and I am referring to W3C) and so far the website works in Safari 3, Firefox 3 (Mac and PC) and Opera (PC). However, not in IE7 as I mention.

Below is an example link. The website should render an orange line under the words ‘Fixed Media’. IE7 renders an orange border around the entire word. Of course, I don’t want this, so if anyone could enlighten me if my code is wrong, or there’s a setting to check in IE7 on the machine I am using, I would be grateful.

[http://www.noizesurge.com/test/](http://www.noizesurge.com/test/)

[http://www.noizesurge.com/test/layout2.css](http://www.noizesurge.com/test/layout2.css) - CSS file so you can see what I have done.