Website looks wacked using Internet explorer

[droflex]

Hello everyone,

I searched the forum before posting this but didn't find a fix.

When I view my site in Chrome (my default browser) it is looking fine.  I decided to bring it up in IE (Windows 7) to see how it displayed and it is not good.

It's more acceptable looking on my phone.  Haven't tested it on any other browsers yet.

I don't use IE but many people do so I need it to look decent.

Thanks.

[droflex]

UPDATE>

I used this to check my website:  https://validator.w3.org/

This is one  of a multitude of & errors:

Error: & did not start a character reference. (& probably should have been escaped as &.)
At line 141, column 148
account/account&session_id=90e

Is it worth trying to correct this in HTML or would I just be spinning my wheels?

Thanks!

[abolabo]

Unfortunately, we can not understand the problem of your phrase " decided to bring it up in IE (Windows 7) to see how it displayed and it is not good."
Please,  take the trouble to at least make a screenshot.

P.S. just fyi: regarding browser statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

[webdevmerc]

Unfortunately, we can not understand the problem of your phrase " decided to bring it up in IE (Windows 7) to see how it displayed and it is not good."
Please,  take the trouble to at least make a screenshot.

P.S. just fyi: regarding browser statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Thanks for posting this...I guess I better test my site on Chrome more now...(I don't trust Google)...

[droflex]

Unfortunately, we can not understand the problem of your phrase " decided to bring it up in IE (Windows 7) to see how it displayed and it is not good."
Please,  take the trouble to at least make a screenshot.

P.S. just fyi: regarding browser statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Thanks, unfortunately a screen shot wasn't going to really help.  The product images were huge compared to what is normally displayed.  They were display at least full screen width.  They were uploaded at 640x480 so you can imagine how pixelated they were at full screen.  You would have probably said "WTF am I even looking at?"

W3schools gave me errors, mostly regarding the usage of the "&" symbol and after some more reading I realize it basically comes down to IE8's issue of HTML compatibility.

Anyway, I used netrenderer to see what the site looked like in IE 9 and above.  It looked fine.  Product images were presented correctly.

There appears to be a way to change the DOCTYPE in html to force the pages to render properly for IE8 and below but I was unable to locate the correct html file on my server to make the change.

I'm not sure if I want to mess around with changing the code too much anyway.