html5 + ie = lightbox_me fails

[helenm]

After much hair-pulling I have determined that html5 doctype breaks lightbox_me in ie (versions 7-9). All other browsers seem to work fine. Its hard to adequately debug the issue in ie, but $self.outerWidth() is a crazy large number and the positioning fails completely. Is this a known problem with html5?

[buckwilson]

We haven't seen this behavior when using lightbox_me with Jive (which supports IE7 and is in HTML5). What version of jQuery are you running? I haven't tested it with the latest, and I know it has some HTML5 / IE7 ramifications that I haven't tested out yet.

[helenm]

I am using 1.6.3 but I tried various older versions. The only thing that made it work was using a doctype. I used XHTML 1.0 Transitional that I copied from your demo page, haven't tried any others.

[PhilipKirkbride]

I can confirm that with HTML 4.0 Transitional Lightbox_me will not work in IE.

[buckwilson]

Thanks for tracking this down. I'll see if I can figure out what's going on.

[john-hughes]

We are seeing the same issue in IE8 when using both

and

Using XHTML 1.0 works fine... however our website won't render properly with XHTML.