Title: Painter Theme IE6 problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Painter Theme IE6 problem

 *  [scampisi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scampisi/)
 * (@scampisi)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/painter-theme-ie6-problem/)
 * I am using, and loving, the painter theme. However, I noticed quite an anomaly
   today. Whenever I add an image to a page, the text on that page seems to change
   color to the same as my background. If I drag across the text, then I can see
   it so I am sure that it is displaying. This is ONLY a problem in IE6. Kinda wild.
   My site is at
 * [http://nettfcu.com](http://nettfcu.com)
 * I have added images to the home page and the locations page. The text just doesn’t
   display in IE6. Any ideas?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/painter-theme-ie6-problem/#post-1041760)
 * You may need to serve up an additional stylesheet for IE6 using a conditional
   comment in header.php.
 *  [mistressvictoria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mistressvictoria/)
 * (@mistressvictoria)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/painter-theme-ie6-problem/#post-1041761)
 * Just a small comment on your site.
    You’re probably already aware of it, though.
 * You have the home page on the navbar twice. XD;;;
    Also.. can I ask how you moved
   the sidebar to the left side? I’d like to do that for my site also.
 * …I’d also like to find out how you removed the blogroll and meta links and all
   that, too.
 * (I know, I’m being bad by hijacking the topic.. but I don’t think it’s possible
   to message the person privately..)
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/painter-theme-ie6-problem/#post-1041801)
 * > You have the home page on the navbar twice
 * I don’t know Painter. Does it use wp_list_pages or wp_page_menu to generate that
   top navbar? There are ways to avid that duplicate Home link but the fix depends
   upon which of those two template tags are being used.
 * > can I ask how you moved the sidebar to the left side
 * Just guessing but look in style.css for:
 *     ```
       #sidebar {
       float:right;
       ```
   
 * Change `float:right` to `float:left`
 * Then look for:
 *     ```
       #content {
       float:left;
       ```
   
 * and do the reverse.
 * You may end up also having to massage a few margins to get the whole thing to
   work but that’s the main gist of the change.
 *  [mistressvictoria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mistressvictoria/)
 * (@mistressvictoria)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/painter-theme-ie6-problem/#post-1041812)
 * Oh hey, that’s awesome. I got that to work. And painter uses….
 * wp_list_pages
 * I just checked in the header, and it uses that.
 *  [mistressvictoria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mistressvictoria/)
 * (@mistressvictoria)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/painter-theme-ie6-problem/#post-1041941)
 * Bumping so the original poster can see it, and possibly someone who can tell 
   me how he removed the blogroll and such… (unless he/she responds to the question.
   XD)
 *  Thread Starter [scampisi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scampisi/)
 * (@scampisi)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/painter-theme-ie6-problem/#post-1042115)
 * I’m sorry it took so long to post this. I had kinda back-burnered this project
   until I got some other sites finished. The biggest obstacle on the painter theme
   CSS mods was to actually find the CSS file. If you go to “Appearance” and edit
   the style.css file, all that is there is a few useless entries . . . useless 
   in that the Painter theme does NOT use them. If you look at the link in the source
   code to your CSS file, it is:
    /painter/css/style.css
 * However, the Appearance editor actually edits a file named
    /painter/style.css
 * To make CSS changes that actually do something, you either need to change the
   CSS link, or mod the /painter/css/style.css file manually and upload it. With
   that said, to move the sidebar in the painter theme to the other side read below:
 * The original content CSS entry was
    #content { float:left; width:700px; padding:
   14px 0px 10px 10px; }
 * and the original sidebar CSS entry was
 * {
    float:right; width:250px; padding:14px 10px 10px 10px; }
 * I just changed the float on the content to right and the float on the sidebar
   to right.
 * To remove the blogroll and others, you can simply delete the appropriate DIV 
   from the sidebar.php file in the Appearance editor. I don’t remember, but I think
   with 2.7 you can actually take the “links” widget off of the sidebar through 
   the widgets page.
 * As far as my text not showing up in IE6, I’m still lost.

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