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Sidebar Goes to Bottom in IE (4 posts)

  1. pbaird66
    Member
    Posted 7 months ago #

    This is a common problems with a lot of themes, I know, I've browsed the forums, but IE 8 and 9 are pushing my sidebar to the bottom. I am using the latest version of the Black-LetterHead theme. My problem is that I am not a very strong coder and there are about twenty fixes for this problem. Is there a plugin that can solve some of my bad code issues?

    Website: http://themorbidimagination.com/

  2. alchymyth
    The Sweeper
    Posted 7 months ago #

    your site has a very high number of validation errors:
    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fthemorbidimagination.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website

    before these errors are fixed, theres is no point looking for any other cause of your sidebar problem.

  3. pbaird66
    Member
    Posted 7 months ago #

    I did run the validator and got all these errors, which is why I've come to the forums to see if there is a way to correct them without running through the code line by line. I'm a little concerned that I could mess something up if I start going in and tinkering with code on this scale. I have turned automatic correction of nested XHTML on, but I was hoping there was a goof proof way to fix the existing errors. If I have to roll up my sleeves and attack the code I will, if that's the only solution.

    Thanks for looking at it.

  4. alchymyth
    The Sweeper
    Posted 7 months ago #

    start at the top of the list - fixing these might automatically reduce errors further down.
    there is no shortcut for validating a website.

    the first error is some adsense script before the line with <!DOCTYPE html PU...... (which has to be the first in a web page)

    find where this adsense code is added, and move it to a position after the <body> tag.

    keep checking and viewing your site inbetween fixes - this way you can catch any changes for the worse.

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