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This problem was driving me crazy until I figured a workaround. In IE 7 beta, the image would begin to load but then stop at some point. The top part was there but nothing below the break point. This occurred only when the image was aligned left or right, and text was running around it. Here’s what was going on

A phrase that was in italics, or sometimes in bold, that fell across two lines was choking the sensitive little beta. I’ll give you an example. I will use the handy * to signal italics.

Here is what the two lines would look like in the browser:

Fido was a *very
funny dog* that way.

The code reads like this. I will spell out the code rather than risking having it display and be no help

Fido was a [em-bracket]very funny dog[close em-bracket] that way.

The image would stop displaying on the line that ended in “very.” This turns out to be helpful because if you’re managing a large site like I am, you can quickly go to the line that’s causing the problem. So here is how the code was corrected and the full image displayed:

Fido was a [em-bracket]very[close em-bracket] [em-bracket]funny dog[close em-bracket] that way.

Another thing that makes IE 7 choke is if the code runs against the word. So in places where I had a closing span or div or [/a], I would put a space. This isn’t always a problem but if the picture has stopped displaying and you’re not splitting a format command across two lines, check and see if that fixes the display.

This took one sleepless night but it was worth it. I don’t think this is a problem limited to WordPress. It seems too generic. Microsoft will have to correct it if they want to compete with our beloved Firefox.

Hope this helps someone.