Why is Footer BG Image Appearing Twice

On this site www.jimstrans.com if you look at the layout in IE8 or IE9 you'll see the footer bg appears twice. But in IE7 it looks as it should. Can someone please take a look and let me know what's going on? I would appreciate it very much. Tom

it is not.

(check your css, it clearly states: no-repeat)

Thanks, on my computer, IE9, the footer bg shows up twice, one w/ the navigation links, one without. T

Ah I see what you mean.
I have a feeling this is the result of the conditional comments. If I inspect it in IE9 There is an anchor that has some markup in it that is missing end-tags. You might want to remove the conditional stuff (in this manner).

To be honest I would not put html in conditional comments, or atleast more sparingly (like: your browser sucks upgrade). Rather use an extra style sheet between conditional comments. That way the content for all browsers is the same.

Have a look at the image I attached:


edit: yep it's definetly the conditional comments
run this:

Wont show up in IE9, so you break your page

Gotcha! Thanks so much for solving the mystery!

I have a feeling you didn;t write the code than

In a nutshell your conditional comments are messing things up. Conditional comments (you may want to google it ) are little snippets of code that anything but IE understands.
In your code you have snippets like this

The problem is that depending on your browser the end tag (</a>) which is inside that if you look closely wont show up.

So in order to fix this I suggest your simply remove these snippets and replace them with the end-tag that is inside them:
from
<!--[if IE 7]><!--> </a> <!--<![endif]-->
to
</a>

I hope this helps

Moreover (as earlier suggested)
if you want a different style for say IE7 and lower, you can put a stylesheet in between conditional comments like so:

Thanks again, I've been dealing with that issue now for years and just got around to dealing with it. You really helped me out, next time your in the Northern Cal area let me buy you lunch. ;-)

lol, thanks! I see you're from Budapest, not sure when I will be around there

Have fun!

another thing if you want a specific elements for all IE versions only just do <!--[if IE]> <![endif]-->