Hi Beth,

Have you tried using a different browser or clearing the browser cache. If the problem persists you can zip the skin and email it to me and I'll check it out.

Best,

Joe

Hi Beth,

The main problem is caused by your search form. In ASP.NET WebForms there can be one and only one form element on a page and the page already has one but you've added another one inside it and I believe the closing form element of your added form is being interpreted as the end of the main form by ASP.NET.

The way to solve that is to implement your search as a user control and embed the user control in the master page. Then in your user control insterad of using a form element use an asp:Button and set the postback url to the url of your search page and that will make it post to that page using the existing form on the page.

Other than that it seems your skin won't work with CombineCss set to true, I can probably fix that for you and send it back to you but I would possibly need to re-organize a few things in your skin folder. Even without combining css I had to copy the font and image folders out of the css sub folder into the main skin folder to get it to work locally.

A few other things I would do:

• Remove IncludeHtml5Script="true" from the <portal:IEStyleIncludes since you are already using modernizer
• Remove greybox and oomph from style.config since they are no longer needed or used
• reset.css should probably be at the top of style.config
• I'm not sure where you are adding the csspie but I would put it in the root and include using ie cmments since its only needed in ie

Let me know if you'd like me to try and solve the css combining thing, its a lot of css filles and with them not combined it adds a lot of http requests which can slow down the page load time. Also without combining them you can't really control the caching because the browser will cache those static urls.

Hope that helps,

Joe

Hi Beth,

would this not currently work because I've got the css in that subdirectory? If that is all it is, I can move it into the main skin directory because, yes, I would like to minify my files

It would simplify things if there weren't as many folders or at least not nested beyond one level deep within the skin folder, but I think there are some things that need to be tweaked in the css itself to make it work well with our css combiner. I've had to tweak the jqueryui css in the past to get it to work when combined.

I can take a look at it now and try to fix it and send it back to you. I was only holding off in case you were making changes on your end that I don't have in the copy you sent. I'll make the minimal changes needed to get it working. If I make changes in the css I'll add comments next to them so you'll know what I did and why.

Best,

Joe

Hi Beth,

I tried to access your site but couldn't. Is it available outside of your network?

Thanks,
Joe 

Hi Beth,

If all else fails you can make a special css file for use with the editors, I've created a document Controlling the CSS Used In The Editors, that explains how to do it.

Hope that helps,

Joe

Hi Beth,

If it were my site what I would do is since you have identified the file(s) containing css that causes the problem, then do some further troubleshooting to find the specific CSS selectors/rules causing the problem by chopping everything out of the file(s) and then putting them back one by one until the problem re-appears. Once it does see if you really need the rule that is causing it, if not remove it else add something to an ie specific css file to override it.

Hope that helps,

Joe