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1. PeggyHall
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   My site is here: http://peggy-hall.com

   I'm using the simple green theme, and near as I can tell, I got an old version from before bugs were dealt with. I've searched the forum, and up until the 120th listing, I didn't see anything similar - hope I didn't miss anything.

   When you click on the permalink, or the "comments" link, and go to a post, and replies (or no replies), the comments box has slid all the way down the page.

   It seems to begin where the last sidebar item ends.

   I went to the thread about simple green from it's creator here: http://www.techwench.com/wp/entry/simple_green/

   If you look in the comments to that thread, you'll see that someone posted something about Pictures posting where the sidebar items end - I thought that this might be my problem, so I tried his suggestion. He suggested putting that piece of code on index.php and page.php. This confused me, because there isn't a page.php with simple green. LOL

   I assumed he meant comments.php, and so I put the code in index.php, and comments.php within simple green. This did nothing. So, I tried a bunch of variations of putting in different places - and nothing seemed to have any effect. I even tried put it in page.php in "default theme" because I figured - why not, it's the only page.php that I could find?

   Any ideas about how to get that comments box back up to under the post?

   Thanks in advance for help that you can offer.

   ~Peggy

2. petit
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have seen this problem mentioned before, but it doesn't seem to happen in your theme. At least I cannot reproduce the behavior now.
   Have you solved the problem?
   If not, can you point to a certain post where you see this phenomenon? In what browser?

3. PeggyHall
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Oh, sorry - it seems to only happen in Internet Explorer. All posts.

4. petit
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi Peggy.
   This is my problem. I doesn't happen to me in IE ver. 6.0 on WinXP. These kind of problem usually happens in IE, but I can't see it in IE or Firefox.

   What browser/OS are you using?

5. PeggyHall
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   It doesn't happen to you?? I'm puzzled!

   I'm using IE 6.0 (Win XP as well)- and when I go to my posts, my comment box is way down the page - it starts where the last link on the side bar stops.

   ??

6. ladydelaluna
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   just FYI -

   I'm using IE6 on WinXP and am also not having the problem...

   what's your screen resolution set at, peggy?

7. PeggyHall
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Well, it was 800X600. i just turned it up, and now it is fixed. I -really- don't like it like this though - lol

   So - does this meen that nothing can be done about it? People with 800x600 resolution will just see it like I did?

8. petit
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   No, I'm sure it can be fixed and I'll try to have a closer look at it. Maybe sleep on it first though.
   Sorry, I didn't think of the screen resolution aspect.
   [Edit] Something's fishy !
   Even at screen resolution wet at 800x600 it's all fine for me. No sliding down of comments.

9. PeggyHall
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   ?? I honestly don't understand. The comments didn't slide down, or the box where you type your comments didn't slide down? I'm beginning to wonder if i'm not the only person who it looks broken for?

   On my screen, set at 800X600 - there is the original post, the replies (if any) then there are the 3 boxes to put in your name, website, and e-mail. Then there is this huge gap. Then there is the box to put in your text. That box is exactly where the links on the sidebar end - which is why it seems so... not random? I meen, it's not just floating at any ole spot or anything.

10. ladydelaluna
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    We were both viewing at 1024... that's why it didn't break for us.

    My brain is fried right now - and Petit plans to come back with something for you after a good night's rest. I'll sleep on it too :)

11. spencerp
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Peggy, I'm also seeing it down at the bottom of page in IE6 with a res of 800x600. =( Maybe try adding this to your CSS file, but play around with the width: %; of it.. But I wouldn't go any higher though, try going lower.. Might help, might not..

    * html #commentform textarea {width:70%;} /*IE WIN; but why? */

    Could also be the margins or paddings on it maybe.. I'm not sure. I could download the theme once and mess with it though hehe. =)

    spencerp

    That's for the width of it maybe, I'm not even sure it will really solve the problem or not either, but just figured I'd have ya try it once..

12. PeggyHall
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    OH-MY-GOD!! It's fixed!

    When i downloaded it, it had "100%" in style.css for the textarea width. This broke it in IE - As soon as you put any text at all in the text box, the box extended itself to the right so far, that it was partially under the right margin. I had to change it to px. So, i put in 450 px. This fixed that break.

    When we figured out that it was a resolution problem, and not everyone was seeing it - it still didn't "click" for me in my head. Then I read that last post just now and when I got to "width", I scared my husband half to death with "OH!!". I changed the width to 400px in style.css, and it's all better.

    I just want to thank you all for helping me with this today - I would have never ever been able to figure it out without the brainstorming!

    In case anyone runs into either of those problems again - In style.css it should say this:

    #main textarea { width: 400px; }

    No higher than that, in order to look right in 800X600. And no percentages there - it doesn't matter what percentage it is, it brakes it for IE.

    Now while I was playing around, I made like 14 errors in the XHTML validater.. So, I guess I have my work cut out for me tomorrow. *laughs*

    I'm so glad we got this - It was driving me nuts.

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