Title: Internet Explorer Layout Distortion
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# Internet Explorer Layout Distortion
* Resolved [watanabecarcass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/watanabecarcass/)
* (@watanabecarcass)
* [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internet-explorer-layout-distortion/)
* Hello everybody, this is my very first post around here. I hope you treat me
well, he he he.
* I know this question has been asked a zillion times, but guess what…I have exactly
the same problem as many guys around here and because I’m a complete newbie in
this blogging stuff I don’t get most of technicalities associated with coding
and that kind of stuff. Actually I don’t know how in da’ hell I was able to come
this far with my blog, anyway, here is my problem.
* My [blog](http://www.zillionmonkey.com) displays perfect in Safari and Firefox,
BUT! in Internet Explorer, the layout is distorted (the sidebar goes down and
I guess you know the rest, quite common uh?)
* When I try to validate it with [http://validator.w3.org](http://validator.w3.org)
I get a bunch of errors, but as I said before, I’m complete new in this game
so messages such as….
* **Line 99, Column 214: end tag for “img” omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.
…
Monkey” title=”Shock the Monkey” ✉ You may have neglected to close an element,
or perhaps you meant to “self-close” an element, that is, ending it with “/>”
instead of “>”.
* …are completely cryptic information for me, and even when I understand that a“
>” is missing, I get confused when I see that “>” is actually there.
* Any advice, solution… and PLEASE! don’t re-direct me to “solved posts” I’ve read
them most of them, BUT guess what!… yeah completely newbie, cannot figure out
most of them.
* Hope someone can help me, see you around.
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* [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
* (@stvwlf)
* [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internet-explorer-layout-distortion/#post-968664)
* Hi
* IE is seeing your sidebar as being part of the Content area. Firefox is correctly
rendering it after the Content area.
* This usually means a closing tag is missing, or tags were closed in the wrong
order.
* You do need to fix the errors the page validator is displaying – most likely
that will clean up your problem. When you validate the page, put a check in the
Show Source box, and revalidate. The source code the validator is seeing will
appear at the bottom. Then you can cross reference the errors to the actual line
of code it objects to, and see the surrounding code. This helps in locating exactly
what is wrong.
* As far as your errors – line 99
`` you are missing a closing”/
>” on the img tag – and there are several of those img errors
* line 118 # needs to be deleted altogether
* etc etc
* Thread Starter [watanabecarcass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/watanabecarcass/)
* (@watanabecarcass)
* [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internet-explorer-layout-distortion/#post-968707)
* Hey stvwlf, thanks a lot!!!!!!!
* your advice
* > the end of that code should be the Monkey” /> you are missing a closing”/
> >” on the img tag – and there are several of those img errors
* worked perfect, now the layout is working.
* Regarding the other errors, I’m a bit confused. Where precisely are those error?
the Header, Main Index, Style CSS, other?
* If I validate the page, the result is a list of errors and advices that are shown
up to line 286, BUT! where is that line?! The Header is pretty short, so is the
Main index….I told ya’, newbie here!
* I guess there is something that calls something and everything is displayed together
as part of one block…nop?
* For example, you said
* > line 118 # needs to be deleted altogether
* but when I go to the Header, there is no such line, the same for Main Index,
I guess I’m seriously missing something…sorry.
* [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
* (@stvwlf)
* [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internet-explorer-layout-distortion/#post-968844)
* Hi
* The concept you have to get is that WordPress assembles your displayed page by
pulling in different php templates as part of the page. header.php and footer.
php are included in every page. sidebar.php is included on any page that has
a sidebar. the main content area template file varies based on what the page
contents are.
* for the main blog page, index.php
except, in some themes, if it is the homepage,
it could be home.php instead of index.php
* if it is a WordPress page, page.php
if it is a category page, either archive.
php or category.php if it is a single blog post with comments beneath it, single.
php
* it’s not possible to tell looking at View Source which of those php template
files any one section is generated from, so you have to look through the files
until you find code that looks something like the code you see in the source
code listing on the validator page.
* Most of those errors will not be in header.php
* Thread Starter [watanabecarcass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/watanabecarcass/)
* (@watanabecarcass)
* [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internet-explorer-layout-distortion/#post-968889)
* Hey stvwlf, thanks a lot!!!!!!!
* I guess going through the painful process of checking the files and their lines
will improve my skills, I’ll get into that.
* Once again, thanks.
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