Have you got a url we could look at?
Search the forum for IE and sidebar – there are many posts and the common solution.
Thread Starter
simian
(@simian)
ebusiness: sorry I ment to add a url
http://benward.dyndns.org/wordpress/
What’s happening is that your “Firewall” post contains meta links and a title element! These should only ever be found in the <head> of the document, no wonder IE is baulking 🙂
I take it you use the rich text editor? I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve told people on these forums that it causes more troubles than it solves 😉
Edit the HTML of that particular post and remove the offending tags:
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" /><title /><meta content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)" name="GENERATOR" /><meta content="Ben Ward" name="AUTHOR" /><meta content="20060605;18384500" name="CREATED" /><meta content="Ben Ward" name="CHANGEDBY" /><meta content="20060605;18535500" name="CHANGED" /> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> </style>
Thread Starter
simian
(@simian)
Thank you Maerk, That worked perfectly.
Do you think the meta content was put there by rich text format or becuase I copied and paisted the text from open office?
The latter.
If you’re copying and pasting from a word processor, you probably want to take an interim step of copying/pasting to a plain text editor to strip all the “html”.
Thread Starter
simian
(@simian)
HandySolo: Thanks I’ll bear that in mind in future.
Yeah, the rich text editor reads your formatting and tries to convert it to the HTML equivalent. Sometimes this is OK, sometimes it’s worse than when my cat walks over my keyboard @:(
I dont suppose you can work your magic on my blog…the Dixie Bell theme is not showing the side bar in Internet Explorer. I cannot find out why, it works perfectly in Modzillia. IE also messes up some of the content boxes.
i tried to make the changes you recommended above…but i want to keep my meta tags…
http://www.sexxyblue.com
Meta tags shouldn’t go in your posts, but in the header of the document. Search Engine bots will ignore them if they find them in the <body>.
What’s probably happening on your blog is that you have an image that’s too wide for the content area. Go through your posts and check.
It might also be a really long word.
just a heads up for anyone that might be tempted to copy and paste sparke’s url, or click his/her forum name: NSFW.
Sparke, try fixing some of these validation errors on your site. I bet one (or more) of those are the culprit(s).
