Disappearing Sidebar in IE

I noticed the same problem with mine.. have you deleted any material from your original theme? I deleted my entire footer, and for some reason it messed up my right sidebar, putting it below all my posts.

No, I didn’t delete anything. It was working fine until I added a link to the ‘about b-nut’ tidbit in my sidebar.

I’ve got this same problem on both of my blogs (one in USA and one in Czech for the same data). Looks fine in Safari and Firefox (PC and Mac), but on IE the left sidebar drops down about 1500 pixels. Here’s the US site:

https://host48.hrwebservices.net/~bullypu/usa/index.php

Do I need to have a special conditional statement with CSS applicable for IE only viewing? I’d like to know if this is a WordPress bug before I go and spend the time tweaking a conditional setup for IE only.

Thanks in advance.

b-nut: It looks fine in FF and in IE 6 too, *sometimes*.
I had your sidebar pressed down in IE, but when I re-sized the window, it jumped into place. I don’t know the answer though.
It may have to do with the fact that FF and IE treats margins/padding ( set in the stylesheet ) differently.
Among many sources, see “The box model problem“

zakman: It is not a WordPress problem. It is a problem of the theme, and can only be corrected int the style.css for the theme.

petit is right. IE handles the box model differently (dare I say, poorly). Sometimes is has to do with the has_layout property flag (don’t worry about it)… and sometimes it has to do with the left and right borders and padding.

More often than not.. when your sidebar gets pushed to the bottom of other content in IE… it is because IE thinks the sidebar is TOO WIDE. Find images or CSS-defined widths that may be wider than others, or just pushing the limits of the space the sidebar is supposed to fit into… and then try tweaking them to be thinner and see if this helps.

Also, as a general tip, make the sidebar about 5px thinner than it is allowed to be in that space… allowing for some “slop” can cover a multitude of sins.

Thanks for all the advice. I edited a link and it seems to work most of the time (if not a little sloppy) in IE. I am just disappointed that I had to edit the link…but we do what we gotta do. thanks again.