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1. MarjWyatt
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm developing a site and have it in maintenance mode. Tonight, I logged in with IE to make sure that the behavior was the same as FF and Chrome and found that the login was thrown off to the left and the admin dashboard was all mucked up too.

   I was able to remedy the exterior layout (user view) by forcing IE to the latest version using this code after the <title> tag:

   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />

   I shouldn't have to alter wordpress software to make it work in all browsers, I'm thinking... :)

   I investigated the .htaccess to ensure that it was not infused with some iframe virus because I read about that elsewhere in this forum.

   The admin dashboard behaves beautifully in Firefox and Chrome on this same machine so I don't think it has anything to do with plugins.

   I've put up a screen shot of what I'm seeing in IE here:

   http://mildlymystified.com/wpadmin-error/messy-dashboard.jpg

   I've tried disabling all the plugins ... results are the same in IE.

   If you take a look at the screen shot, notice that IE Debug Bar is reporting IE5 compatibility and I certainly did not code that into the dashboard.

   Any ideas would be truly appreciated.

2. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I don't see any problems with my Dashboard in IE 8.

   I'm wondering if an add-on is interfering.

   Can you test in someone else's IE 8?

3. MarjWyatt
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I did. I have several sites up on more than one hosting account (different servers). This is the only site that is hinky in IE8.

   I also have another computer in my office with XP and IE8 installed. The site behaves the same on that computer.

   It is curious, expecially since re-loading core wordpress folders and reinstalling wordpress through the dashboard didn't help.

   The site is OK from the outside with the fix I implemented so, since I do my development in FF, it isn't affecting anyone but me right now.

   Could it be a hosting server problem? I have two accounts with this host and the site on the other account is not exhibiting this behavior...

4. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm curious if it's a problem with a plugin or a theme (theme functions can affect the Dashboard) that only appears when you access your Dashboard with IE 8.

5. MarjWyatt
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Well, I tried disabling the 2 plugins I installed last night and it made no difference. I use this version of the Lifestyle theme by Studiopress on several of my sites and none are behaving this badly with the same set of plugins.

   I've made no modifications to the theme functions so I suppose I could grab a functions.php from another working site and see if that makes any difference but it seems more like a WordPress issue than a theme or plugin issue, since there is no faulty layout of the admin dashboard in Chrome or Firefox, doesn't it?

   It is just weird.

6. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You could say that, but then again you said "I have several sites up on more than one hosting account (different servers). This is the only site that is hinky in IE8," so I'm inclined to think that it's not a general WordPress issue.

   Whatever it is, it's specific to just this particular blog.

   Otherwise, you wouldn't be the only person reporting this layout issue with IE 8.

   Have you tried clearing IE's cache recently?

7. MarjWyatt
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Of course I cleared cache and temporary files on IE. That is the 1st thing that I tried. I rebooted too.

   But, to your point that I am the only person who has had a problem with this, I'm sure you noticed from my initial post that there were other threads in this forum where people were reporting dashboard layout problems with the latest version of IE and most of those threads seem to be unresolved.

   I appreciate that you are trying to be helpful but I will look for other advice around the forum.

8. lovelydai
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hi

   I'm getting the same problem across all browsers. I spent time with my host's support, who told me it looked fine from their angle. I checked the dashboard on my phone and my wife's laptop and it looks just fine.

   There must be something wring with my local machine, so as I typw this I'm running a virus scan.

   Hope I find something or I'm stuck!

   Hope you get your sorted soon.

   Dave

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