Problem with side bar in Explorer

  • Amelia

    (@peninsulavineyard)


    14 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,
    I am learning css and other stuff, but still pretty new at all of this. I’ve been using the Sliding Doors theme, have WP 2.8.4. Recently, I was looking at my site using Explorer 8, and the side bar is messed up further down, where the links are. I use a plugin called my link order, and it hasn’t been a problem so far. I tried deactivating it and just put my blog roll there, but it still was messed up. I wish I could pinpoint what exactly preceded the messed up view, but I didn’t look at my site with explorer right away, and several plugins plus WP were upgraded on my site since the last time I saw it in IE. It did look fine before, but when I looked at my site on one of those webpages that gives screen shots of your site using various browsers, it was messed up in ie7, too.
    Is there someone who can help me or at least steer me in the right direction? My site is at Peninsula Vineyard
    Thanks so much!
    Amelia

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    You have quite a few validation errors – including at least 1 missing </div> and some markup errors on your sidebar. There are also some CSS errors that need fixing.

    Thread Starter Amelia

    (@peninsulavineyard)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    Wow, thanks! I didn’t think to recheck the validation… duh! 🙂 I’ll try to fix what I can.
    Amelia

    Thread Starter Amelia

    (@peninsulavineyard)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    Well I’ve been looking at all the errors… I’ve not had time to figure out how to fix them yet. I am sure I will have some more questions once I do. I am just curious… what causes all these errors? Could it be from plugins that I installed and ended up having to remove because they caused a fatal error? Or did I do something wrong when I upgraded (I had to do it manually the last 2 upgrades). I have done some CSS editing of the theme, but not that much. It’s mostly been things like changing text, colors, changing header pictures, and stuff like that.
    Thanks!
    Amelia

    Thread Starter Amelia

    (@peninsulavineyard)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    Ok, I think I fixed the side bar issue. But there are still a lot of errors on validation. The sidebar issue must have had something to do with the text widgets I had inserted there. I removed them, and that fixed the problem. One contained java script for Twitter, generated from their site and pasted into a text box. The other was just an image with the link to our facebook page. I put them into the footer as small icons with links to their respective sites.

    I know there are way too many errors to ask for help with, but do you see any major ones that really need immediate attention? Sorry, I know that is a dumb question, but like I said, I’m learning.
    Thanks again!
    Amelia

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    he sidebar issue must have had something to do with the text widgets I had inserted there.

    Could be that the register_sidebar() function in your theme’s functions.php file needs editing. Or the sidebar template needs editing to cope with the widget markup.

    do you see any major ones that really need immediate attention

    Try concentrating on the following error types:

    – end tag for element […] which is not open
    – end tag for […] omitted
    – document type does not allow element […] here
    – unclosed start-tag
    – required attribute […] not specified
    – XML Parsing Error

    Thread Starter Amelia

    (@peninsulavineyard)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks so much! I’ll see what I can do. Hopefully, I will be able to properly edit the errors. 🙂
    Amelia

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