Show Top Commentators IE display problem

Ok, after seeing no response I started playing around with the PHP code to be executed inside the Widget. I seem to have found the problem.

If you’re not running a widget sidebar, the install instructions for the plug-in tell you to copy-paste the following code in the sidebar.php file of your theme:

<?php if(function_exists('ns_show_top_commentators')) { ?>
<li>
<h2>Top Commentators</h2>
<ul><?php ns_show_top_commentators(); ?></ul>
</li>
<?php }
?>

Now, I tested the above code as instructed (i.e. in my sidebar.php file, after disabling the sidebar widget), and it worked fine (no display problems). However, running the same code inside the widget with the Executable PHP, breaks the sidebar line (as my original post stated).

So what’s the solution? It seems that removing the list tags ( < li > and < /li > ) in the code fixes the problem. This is the code I’m running now, and it works fine:

<?php if(function_exists('ns_show_top_commentators')) { ?>
<h2>Top Commentators</h2>
<ul><?php ns_show_top_commentators(); ?></ul>
<?php }
?>

On a sidenote, the theme I have for my website is the default Kubrick theme. Perhaps for other themes this tweak won’t work, but it worked for me.