Internet Explorer 6 Sidebar Misalignment.

  • Resolved brianjay

    (@brianjay)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    Hey everyone:

    I’m setting up a WordPress blog for a family member interested in starting up her own site. Everything’s going quite smoothly, until I checked out my design in Internet Explorer 6..

    You guessed it, the old “sidebar decides to chill at the bottom of the page” scenario. I know this problem’s older than the hills, but here’s the thing..

    Whenever I attempt to search for a similar problem, the only results that show up are posts from some fellow saying, over and over, “Preform a search for ‘sidebar down ie’! Preform a search for ‘sidebar down ie’!”

    Hmmmm.. Irony at its best, I would imagine. 🙂

    At any rate, I’ve not a clue in the world on how to amend this problem. My CSS 2.1 is valid, my xHTML 1.0 Strict is valid.. And no, there’s absolutely nothing whatsoever in my sidebar that’s “stretching” it. No large images, no cloud tags, no gigantic bold/italic text.. Nothing.

    Oh, and I’m using a program called XAMPP Control to work on WordPress via my harddrive, so I will be unable to provide anyone with a link.

    Any tips? 🙂 My CSS can be provided if anyone wants to have a look-see.

    Help would most definitely be appreciated!

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  • Thread Starter brianjay

    (@brianjay)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    A little help, anyone …? Any tips at all, folks!

    Thread Starter brianjay

    (@brianjay)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    Don’t all post at once now, you might overload the server! 😉

    testrrr

    (@testrrr)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    I have same problem as me and you: teh solution is to try a search for “sidebar down IE” (words from your topic title).’. Here is more information on that issue. you don[‘t have to thank me; it is no problem.

    Thread Starter brianjay

    (@brianjay)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    Well, that’s absolutely no help whatsoever.. But I admit, it did make me chuckle.

    Anyone have an actual answer, or.. ?

    rmk80

    (@rmk80)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    i also had a lot of issues considering IE6, like it’s incompatibility using transparancy png’s, it’s just a bad browser! But the problem you describe seems to me like a css issue.

    i suggest you post a link to your website and your css so people can see what goes wrong!

    testrrr

    (@testrrr)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    this query seems to give good result (1st hit provides 3 solutions). good luck & vote obama

    Thread Starter brianjay

    (@brianjay)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    Sorry to burst your protective bubble, testrrr, but Obama isn’t America’s saviour. I most certainly will not be voting for him.

    But back to the topic, I managed to come up with a half arsed workaround.. I changed this bit of my CSS:

    #wrapper{
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
text-align: left;
width: 630px;
}

    To this:

    #wrapper{
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
text-align: left;
width: 632px;
}

    Making it an extra 2 pixels wider than it needs to be.

    And it’ll do, I suppose, until I can come up with something better in the future.

    And rmk80, our opinions of Internet Explorer don’t matter here.. What does matter is cross browser compatibility. 🙂

    rdwoolf

    (@rdwoolf)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    I DID vote for Obama but I am experiencing the Internet Explorer 6 Sidebar Misalignment problem anyway. 😉

    I will try the work-around solution you suggested.

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