Sidebar breaks on one page, but not others. Neep help fixing.

  • My first attempt at this post got corrupt for some reason. Reposting…

    I’m new to WP and PHP and about average with CSS so maybe this is an easy fix. Still, I’m stumped.

    I’ve been setting up my first WP blog and got it working pretty well. Trouble is, the sidebar drops down below the bottom of the post content on the single post page in IE 8. It’s only broken on this page and only in IE. In all of the other browsers I’m supporting it’s fine.

    I tried noodling with the widths of the columns, but that’s not the problem. Does anyone have any ideas on what could be forcing the sidebar down on this template and this template only?

    Some links…

    Homepage (good):
    https://chronictriathlete.com/wordpress/

    Category Archives (good):
    https://chronictriathlete.com/wordpress/category/uncategorized

    Post (broken):
    https://chronictriathlete.com/wordpress/later-dude

    Thanks for your help!

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  • Looks fine now in IE8 but there’s still a problem in IE7. I did notice that you have an invalid DOCTYPE which certainly won’t help. amend:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBliC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

    to

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

    in header.php. That could well throw IE7 into Quirks mode. If the IE7 problem continues, the next option might be to look at serving up an additional IE7 specific stylesheet using a conditional comment:

    https://www.elated.com/articles/internet-explorer-conditional-comments/

    I’m having a similar problem at https://mountainbible.com. The sidebar gets pushed down toward the footer on the home page, but appears normally on every other page. Tried this in IE, Chrome and Safari on my PC. Also tried different themes: Amazing Grace and Fusion. DOCTYPE seems to be correct on my site, too.

    @adamsmark: Different problem. It’s not theme-specific (which the original problem is) because the issue remains when you change themes. I’d guess you’ve got some problem markup in one of your posts but you have some many validation errors on your home page, it’s hard to tell where it is.

    I’d suggest you start by reducing the validation errors and then, if you still have a problem, start a new topic.

    Thanks. One of our bloggers wrapped code around the “more” tag, really messing things up. Fixed. Thanks.

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