Hi,
I have the similar problem as you… With IE 8.0 !!!
Did you try to use IE 7.0 ? Because for my website, it solves the issue.
But whatever, all the people will run your website using IE8 will have the issue. It’s because the new browser engine in IE 8.0 misinterprets certain HTML tag.
You can try to adapt your HTML code to solve this.
Any clues as to how to adapt the code?
Hummmmmmm… Difficult !
You need to know which HTML tags are not good with IE 8.0
Then change them, but you must test each changes you made, otherwise, the other browsers may not interpret the fixed tags !!!
As I often say as a french, “It’s like a snake eating his tail !”
First try to go here :
http://validator.w3.org/
To evaluate the number of errors that the Validator finds.
Put the entire URL of your site (eg: http://google.fr/)
and click ‘Check’
Then see what sorts of error are critical.
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you also have markup errors. try sorting them out and see if that resolves the issue.
In plus, I saw your PHP Template are “HTML 5” !!!
“HTML 5” is an experimentation for the moment in the web…
You should use “XHTML 1.0 Transitional” like my website.
@riversatile: You are utterly mistaken; html5 is *hardly* experimental. Look at the code; the site is built on 2010 Weaver, a child theme of the default wordpress theme Twenty Ten. The theme will work fine in IE7-8.
@lgordonb: deactivate your widgets and see if that fixes some of the display problems; some of widget code could be problematic. And look in your home page in the html editor, as it looks like you cut and pasted from Word, and that throws in formatting code that disrupts the display.
I am a neophyte to code and html; why would this only happen in explorer and not google chrome? I have two side bars in my design, why would the one on the right not show up in explorer? It is doing the same on all the pages. Would pasting from word on the home page mess with the format on all the others?
I will try looking at the widgets here later when I have the time… Is there an easier fix?
IE can be picky with the way it displays html when it encounters errors. Even without errors, IE is well known as a troublesome browser.
No easy fix. Welcome to code.
You have to start trying things like deactivating widgets and isolate the errors. And if you’ve been editing theme files, you need to back out of the edits and see if the display fixes itself.