• I’m working on a new template and am currently debugging in IE. My sidebar displays fine in IE8, IE9, Chrome, FF, Safari and Opera but not IE7. Does anyone know why this might be? I can see in the developer tools for IE that the code is there but it’s just not showing up at all where it should be.

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  • I see a javascript error with the slider.

    Have you tried:
    – deactivating all plugins (yes, all) to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s). Don’t forget the ones in mu-plugins if you have one. If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
    – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    Thread Starter stacigh

    (@stacigh)

    It’s an IE issue. I tried everything you have suggested but for some reason, IE just doesn’t want to play nice. (Go figure). It only happens in IE7 but I can’t fathom why. I’ve already killed 2 hours on this and I’m just hoping that a second (or nth) pair of eyes will see what I’m missing.

    What was JS the error you saw?

    You will have to use some sort of conditional statement for IE7.

    I went to the mission statement. You start the wrapper with a div but the sidebar starts before the wrapper is closed. I know it probably should be that way but if I add a </DIV> before the sidebar opens the sidebar does not disappear in IE7. There are of course other problems when you do that.

    You might also want to put a full path to the sidebar image.

    SCRIPT5007: Unable to get value of the property ‘length’: object is null or undefined
    slider.js, line 49 character 2 was the error showing when I would change a page forcing a new image.

    Thread Starter stacigh

    (@stacigh)

    Interesting. I can’t get it to replicate. What browser are you using? And thank you for the support. 🙂

    I am using IE9 and FF6.0.2 FF also shows a script error with the slider but perhaps there is no real problem as the site seems to work fine.

    Thread Starter stacigh

    (@stacigh)

    Turns out the issue was IE7 not liking the position:absolute properties. Not sure why. But I’ve **sort of** gotten it to work now by switching it to relative positioning. Which brought on a host of new issues to solve but at least it’s displaying.

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