theme messed up only in IE for only one page. Quite confused!

  • Hey guys! I was all happy with my newly designed website, but then when someone tried it on IE (7.0 and 6.0) I found a very strange problem. When you select one version of my page (the Spanish language version), then the sidebar vanishes from its normal position and moves to a hideous place at the bottom of the site! And stranger still, this only happens in Internet Explorer and only for that one page. I use the “gengo” plugin to handle the languages, but it specifically changes absolutely nothing for the site design; it just replaces content between language versions.

    Can anyone see why this might be happening? I’m lower-intermediate when it comes to CSS coding and have already played around with the theme a bit. If it happened for the whole site it would make more sense. Look: https://www.irishpolyglot.com/es/ (you won’t see the problem with Firefox, or Opera). I’ve gotten friends on different computers who tried it and they have the same issue.

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  • https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https://www.irishpolyglot.com/en/

    english – 62 errors.

    https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https://www.irishpolyglot.com/es/

    spanish – 67 errors.

    compare the pages, see whats different. and honestly, both pages are illustrative of errors that shouldnt be there, and are easily fixed.

    Thread Starter irishpolyglot

    (@irishpolyglot)

    Wow! I wasn’t aware of the w3 validator, thanks for the link. I haven’t done any of the coding myself apart from editing the theme script files (but they don’t appear among the errors), so I don’t see how these all cropped up, since WordPress handled everything else itself. This checker seems to be very strict; it doesn’t like the standard embed code that I copied and pasted from Youtube. I’ll have to research each one and see what I can eliminate so the site runs more smoothly.

    If anyone has a hint as to what error is specifically effecting the Spanish page let me know!
    Thanks whoo ??

    embed isnt valid using your doctype, and is deprecated.

    The validator is not being strict, it’s checking whats on the page according to the doctype thats at the top of all those pages. You can change the doctype, but some things are applicable to all.. closing tags for instance, and of course, browser issues wont go away.

    .. and youre welcome ??

    Thread Starter irishpolyglot

    (@irishpolyglot)

    OK, I’ll have to do some research and learn more about doctypes and alternative ways of rendering code (at the moment, my coding level is lower-intermediate, but I’m definitely willing to put in the time to learn extra things), otherwise I’ll close off any tags that aren’t.
    Thanks again for your help! ??

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