Please Help!!! Page loading weird in Internet Explorer, arrgh!!

  • Resolved dizzy1

    (@dizzy1)


    17 years ago

    In Firefox my website looks fine. But when I tried Internet Explorer I noticed the main page doesn’t load correctly.

    It is a three column theme. The problem I see is the right sidebar loads separately by itself way at the bottom right of the page making the page twice as long in size, instead of the right sidebar being next to the left and center columns as normal.

    If somebody could take a look at the page and hopefully tell me what I need to do to correct it so it will show properly in Internet Explorer I would be most grateful to you.

    You can see the site here; https://www.digitechpublications.com

    Any help with this would be so much appreciated.

    Thanks in advance!

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  • ChgoWriter

    (@chgowriter)

    I’ve had this problem in the past. Try validating your css. It will tell you where the problem is. For me, it was that something in my sidebar was actually too wide.

    Search “validation” and you’ll find a link to a validation tool. W3Schools has validation tools.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    Usually, you have to validate the (X)HTML, the css can come later.
    https://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitechpublications.com%2F

    However, even without validation results I can tell you: search for “sidebar down IE” and you will find the same question posted zillion times and getting always the same answer – something in my sidebar was actually too wide, as ChgoWriter put it…

    Thread Starter dizzy1

    (@dizzy1)

    Ok, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I tried using the XHTML validation and it says I have 99 errors. It’s gonna take me some time to sort through all the errors and figure out what’s causing the problem.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    Validation is one thing.

    What is causing your problem is (usually) a totally different thing. I pointed you to the answer, too: something too wide!
    It can be an image, a long code, a text with italic font, etc.

    Thread Starter dizzy1

    (@dizzy1)

    What it actually turned out to be was a little snippet of php code in the home.php file was in a place that it didn’t need to be in. I must have forgotten to take it out when I was changing or adding something to the page at some point and didn’t notice.

    Everything is working fine now.

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