When I first set my blog up with version 1.5 it displayed fine in Internet Explorer and Firefox. I have since upgraded and haven't even thought of checking it again in internet explorer. I've tried using a validator but it really didn't help me much as I do not know enough about web standards. The theme I am using is modified but trying to use the default theme has the same issue without any mods. The site can be found at http://sethsblog.com
Sidebar no longer shows in IE (37 posts)
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Uruz7
Posted 6 years ago # -
blackmamba
Posted 6 years ago #I have a simular problem. My sidebar is all the way at the bottom of the screen in IE but not in FF... And even with the standard default theme it doesn't work :/
check it here : http://blog.exquisitecomic.be/ -
spencerp
Posted 6 years ago #blackmamba, it might help a little bit to fix the validation errors...there isn't too many. But I think one of your images is too big or something..maybe try lowering the width of it down once. =)
I also made a post about the fix for the header/footer shift to. Fixes a few problems for that default theme..
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/61234?replies=3spencerp
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Posted 6 years ago #Uruz7, please excuse me while I slap myself! [SLAP] I found it, I was looking in your header section of the blog while viewing source and seen it said "wulan" it's supposed to be "wuhan".
In your header.php file change this:
<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://www.sethsblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/wulan/style-ie.css">To this:
<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://www.sethsblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/wuhan/style-ie.css">spencerp
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Posted 6 years ago #spencerp, I used your files for the theme, but the problem remains... How and where do I fix those validation problems?
Thx.
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Posted 6 years ago #Well, it's not the "theme's" errors of course, it's something to do with the frameset code some where in the site.
<frameset rows="100%,0" border="0" frameborder="0" framespacing="0" framecolor="#000000">
<frame src="http://cmdstud.khlim.be/~jcornelissen/wordpress/">
</frameset>
<noframes>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<center>
<h2>
The Exquisite Comic - BLOG </h2>
<br><br>
<a href="http://cmdstud.khlim.be/~jcornelissen/wordpress/">
Click here to continue
</a>
</center>
</body>
</noframes>Why are you using that anyways lol? Just was curious.. ALSO, the sidebar still goes downwards in IE6, try making the width of this image lrg_ironspidey_001.jpg smaller.. width wise..
You using some type of redirect like above or something...
spencerp
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Posted 6 years ago #Thx, I'll try to make the image smaller. But the frameset I dont know why I use it :/ Isn't it standard? Strange...
EDIT:
Aight, I removed the Spiderman image and it works! Now I have to look into the pixelshift :D
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Posted 6 years ago #I'm not sure about that being "standard" per se, cause I never really used it before at all..
But when I go to this address here:
http://cmdstud.khlim.be/~jcornelissen/wordpress/It takes me to the same place as here:
http://blog.exquisitecomic.be/The first one must have been the orignal default URL from the host or something maybe..I dunno.
Now your sidebar is back up again in IE6...=) Just upload all of my images and files like normal, except for your header image.. should be fine then.. =)
spencerp
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Posted 6 years ago #Yes the cmdstud... is my original place, but I wanted a more comfortable link so i use the blog.exq... So it's problably cuz of that.
And now everything is almost back to normal! Thank you very much!
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Posted 6 years ago #Here's something interesting. I have copied the whole wulan theme directory over to a test blog at http://test.sethsblog.com/wordpress/ and it worked just fine. This means that it can't be the CSS in the theme but a setting in wordpress itself. I will trudge through but admin panels later to see what could be wrong.
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Tfleming
Posted 6 years ago #spencerp -- I hope you can help me, as I have a similar problem as blackmamba had.
The blog in question is at http://www.unsg.org
My sidebar occasionally jumps to the bottom of my blog - not always, just occasionally. And if I refresh, it ends up in the right place.
I don't think my images are too large, as there seems to be plenty of room still available.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
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michelenotari
Posted 6 years ago #I hope you can also help me!
My problem is exactly the same! My sidebar jumps to the bottom of the page. First it appears for 0.5 seconds and then it jumps down.
I have changed the size of all images.. made them smaller.
my blog:
http://www.greenpit.ch/blogwordpress
thanksMichele
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Michele,
Your problem seems to be in the sidebar - one of your images - likely the babelfish image. -
Posted 6 years ago #I found the problem
In my sidebar I integrated all my links of delicious. There I had a quit long link (comeing from a pdf file..
This lenth caused the problem!
So take care with long links!
May be this should be a bug to fix for next releases! -
eediete
Posted 5 years ago #i also have a problem like this. in IE6.0 my sidebar looks very nice, but when checking my blog in firefox and netscape the sidebar can be found at the 'bottom' of the page, below the last blog. very strange and ugly. who can help me out? my site: http://www.eediete.nl/keuken
thanks in advance,
Edith -
qkhoi
Posted 5 years ago #To eediete: about your problem, you can decrease the maincol's width to around 570px, it will be ok.
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MikeCherim
Posted 5 years ago #One of the main reasons for this, if width isn't an issue (oftentimes it isn't), is the floated elements displayed side-by-side aren't diaplyed inline. Thus, adding display:inline to your floated elements will often fix this problem.
#content {
float : left;
width : somepx;
display : inline;
}
#sidebar {
float : right;
width : somepx;
display : inline;
}Mike
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Posted 5 years ago #Thanks for your reply. I will try both your suggestions.
Edith! -
gdearing
Posted 5 years ago #Hi all -
I've looked through the forum pretty extensively and can't seem to narrow down what might be my problem. Yesterday my right sidebar disappeared. I've seen all the posts on image sizes and how they affect layout etc. It's only happening in IE6 as far as I know. Firefox seems fine. Could someone please suggest where I might start? Disclaimer: I also checked the W3C Validator --- and it ain't pretty.Thanks
wowfeed.com -
Posted 5 years ago #I see what you mean. Besides some of the sidebar going poof, I can't even see anything in the footer..in IE6 that is.. =/
I'm not sure if it's maybe a
<div>or closing</div>problem or not...but, when you checked it with the W3C Validator site...did you use the: Show Source and Verbose Output options?Here's the link to it, using those two options. You should really care about the 49 errors though, because one of the 49 might be the culprit of why the sidebar isn't showing. ;)
When you get to that link I gave above, click on the "blue number" link, beside the word: Line, it will take you down the "source" of the page, right to where the "errors" are at.
Then fix them all accordingly..in your theme's files, or maybe even within your Posts. Hopefully after fixing the errors, the sidebar will come back again in IE6. If it doesn't, then report back here again lol..
spencerp
P.S. I really hate IE6, I just wish Microshit would stop using it and providing it. Just redirect everyone from their IE6 downloads page to the Firefox download page LoL!!
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Posted 5 years ago #Thanks spencerp..I'm checking the supposed <div> tag errors and they all look fine so far. I'll go through the rest in the morning. Thanks for the quick response.
P.S.- Couldn't agree w/you more re: MSFT. I never realized how bad it was until I starting using firefox. Pitiful.
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Posted 5 years ago #Thanks spencerp..I'm checking the supposed <div> tag errors and they all look fine so far. I'll go through the rest in the morning. Thanks for the quick response.
No problem. =) I forgot to mention above though, which I edited it quick..to add that some of those errors might lay within your actual "posts" as well. Also, sometimes "extra long or lengthy" links, can screw stuff up too..
P.S.- Couldn't agree w/you more re: MSFT. I never realized how bad it was until I starting using firefox. Pitiful.
Haha, sigh...yeah...damn Microsoft. Damn it to hell!!
spencerp
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Posted 5 years ago #No luck yet...I checked the posts and some of the longer links to no avail. Any other ideas? Should I rebuild my sidebar from scratch, a piece at a time. And what's the best way to accomplish that without fudging up the whole site.
Thanks in advance!
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gdearing -
I'm actually seeing *extra* closing div tags, not missing ones. For example, there's an extra one after the commented out section for some kind of script, after the first post on the page.
What you might want to do is View your source code, save it as a TXT file and delete all the content - leave all div's intact. It helps muddle through all the tags if you're not wading through a ton of content. Then you can see where the issues lie and fix them appropriately. :)
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Posted 5 years ago #thanks doodlebee..probably an obvious question here. How the heck do I get to that edit. Do I perform the edit inside of the dashboard. I've looked there and I don't see the <div> you're referring to. Is there one of the PHP files I should get to in CPanel? Still no luck in IE6. Man, this is frustrating ;(
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It's not a <div> tag, it's a *closing* div tag: </div> There's several of them that are in there, closing out things that shouldn't be closed. Here's a sample taken directly from your source code. I've removed the actual content so you can see where the issues are:
<div id="page">
<div id="header" >
</div>
<hr />
<div class="content">
<div id="primary">
<div id="dynamiccontent"></div>
<div id="primarycontent"><div>
<!-- what are the two above divs for? there's nothing in them. -->
<div id="post-51" class="item entry">
<div class="itemhead"></div>
<div class="itemtext"><div>
</div>
<div><!-- End Technorati Tags --></div>
</div>
<!-- this div tag closes #primary -->
<!-- -->
</div>
<!-- This is currently closing your #content div, don't think it should be here. Anything after this will no longer be within your content section.-->
<div id="post-43" class="item entry"></div>
<!-- This closing div tag closes out the "post" area before there's even anything posted -->
<div class="itemtext">
<div align="center">
<div align="left"></div>
<div align="left"></div>
</div> <!-- why are these three divs here? -->
</div>
<!-- -->
</div>
<!-- this div is actually closing your #page div. Anything after if isn't even going to show up within your #page area -->
</div></div>
<!-- two more closing div tags - yet there's nothing *to* close as no divs tags are open anymore -->
<hr />
<div class="navigation">
<div class="left"></div>
<div class="right"></div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
<hr />
</div> <!-- again - nothing to close! -->As you can see, there's lots of extra closing div tags - at the point where I stopped (too long to post the whole darn thing here!) you've already closed yourself right out of your opening #page area.
As to *where* you need to make these changes? I don't know. I don't know this theme, I don't know your setup, or what sections are in what files on your system. The template, however, *definitely* needs to be edited, because there's mega screwups here. if I were to guess, I'd say start with your index.php file and examine your loop, your sidebar.php file, header.php file - there's opbviously extra div tags placed within your template where they do not need to be, and it's causing a lot of issues.
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Posted 5 years ago #Thanks very much doodlebee...you've been a trooper. I found an older sidebar I had saved and published it. Voila, back to an earlier version of my 3 column layout. Now, back to rebuilding the sidebar very slowly and testing in IE as I go along. Can you confirm how it looks in IE 6?
Thanks again for our help.
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SimpleMinded1
Posted 5 years ago #Hi. So it seems this is the thread to post about errors with the sidebar in IE. I've tried looking at a variety of different sites with little success. My website (albeit very simple... I'm trying to learn as I go so apologies for shoddy decisions), works fine in firefox and Opera. However, when opened in IE, my side bar drops below my content. My website is http://www.geocities.com/matthewefyffe/rbmain.html and I ran it through validator, fixing all of the errors that my writing made (I can't do anything about what geocities forces in there though).
I will include my css file at the top of the html so it can be viewed by the source (i'm assuming that's how it's done?). Thanks for any help as this has been bugging me all day.
EDit: in fact, while I'm at it... in opera, my white background for the page only extends to halfway below my text whereas in firefox and IE, my white background goes all the way to the bottom of the page. What would cause this to happen? And why in bloody hell can't all browsers work the same :).
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Posted 5 years ago #EDIT: Okay, sorry for bothering everyone.. it seems ot be working though i'm not sure why.
Though if anyone can explain why the background color of white stops short on any browser except IE it'd be much appreciated :)
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SimpleMinded,
this is not a "general" support for any kind of website. We support only WordPress blogs here. So - based on the links - you have posted your questions in the wrong place. That site is not a WP blog. Sorry.
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