WP won’t display in IE

  • My site displays fine in Firefox but is complete nonsense in IE. I’ve tried different versions of both browsers on several different machines. On all of them Firefox displays fine, IE does not.

    The most common explanation for this problem I’ve found here is that a post contains text pasted from Word. I haven’t done that (I’m 99% sure, anyway). I’ve also validated my CSS.

    I’m pretty sure it’s a problem with the custom theme I’m using. When I change from my custom theme to Sandbox or something else, the site displays fine in IE. I’m hoping someone can help me out.

    chriswachal.org

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  • I would take a closer look at your sidebar, it looks a little goofy, not enough to break IE, but maybe?

    I see a closing span tag toward the top of the sidebar, with no opening tag:

    <div id="sidebar">
<img src="placeholder1.jpg" height="270" width="200">

<p align="center">This is not a Magritte.</p></span>
<p align="right">
<a href="index.php">blog</a><br />
<a href="cvnew.htm">cv </a><br />
<a href="philosophy.htm">philosophy </a> <br />
<a href="courses.htm">courses </a> <br />
<a href="research.htm">research </a> <br />
<a href="projects.htm">projects </a> <br />

<a href="linkage.htm">links </a> <br />

    Below that. I would take a closer look at your lists too, it looks like there might be one less closing tag than you need?

    Also, throughout the the theme, take a close look at your major divs: header, sidebar, footer, etc, and make sure that are all accounted for and placed correctly.

    Thread Starter chriswachal

    (@chriswachal)

    I’ve removed the phantom closing span tag.

    Could you be more specific about where my lists need another closing tag? I’m not seeing it.

    I’ve double-checked my divs as best I can. Everything looks fine to me, but I admit I may be missing something.

    You do have code errors that need fixing. Fix this error first:

    end tag for “div” omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

    Yes, validating your code is a good idea!

    I took a second look at your code, the lists look okay.

    But, is there a closing tag for that second paragraph tag?

    <div id="sidebar">
<img src="placeholder1.jpg" height="270" width="200">

<p align="center">This is not a Magritte.</p>
<strong><p align="right"></strong>

    im having the same issues for my allaboutpips.net site. i customized the kubrick theme a bit. it works fine on IE7 and Firefox, but IE6 destroys it.

    can anyone help me too pls.

    project_rai, I would look at how your site validates. Many of the errors are minor but there could be something serious in there.

    I would take a hard look at your sidebar. You have a lot of widgets and thing in there, any one of them could be breaking it in IE. Try disabling them until it works in IE6, then you’ll know which one the culprit is, if one is to blame.

    alright. i will. thanks!

    i tried removing all the widgets, and still have the same issue. pls help again. thanks

    I took another look at your source code and I don’t see anything out of place.

    I’m sorry, I don’t have IE6, so I can’t see your problem first hand, exactly what is not working? Could you post a screenshot?

    One more thing you could try is deactivating all of your plugins, to make sure none of them are giving you problems.

    Thread Starter chriswachal

    (@chriswachal)

    Alright, I’ve fixed as many of the code errors as I can.

    There are two that remain unresolved and I wonder if they point to the problem. First, it says there is no “target” attribute and I may need to switch my doctype for this to work. Is this correct? Will doing this cripple anything else I’ve done? The second says basically the same thing about the “align” attributes in my sidebar. Must I do without these? I can replace them, but is that necessary?

    I’m not sure how to fix those errors, but I think that they are very minor and could not be causing your problem.

    The validator says:

    his error is often caused by incorrect use of the “Strict” document type with a document that uses frames

    So I think you’re right, changing the doctype should fix those errors, but I don’t think it will make it render any better in IE

    It looks like this is your doctype:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”&gt;

    If you use this doctype, it should validate better:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”&gt;

    Did you roll your theme from scratch, or use another theme as a starting point?

    I would compare it closely to the original, if one exists, and tty to spot the difference.

    Thread Starter chriswachal

    (@chriswachal)

    I changed the doctype and that helped it validate more cleanly, but it still won’t render in IE.

    I did adapt a theme – Infimum – for my site. I downloaded the originals and uploaded them one by one. The problem, predictably, is in my stylesheet.

    I’ll double-check what I have against the original to see where I may have gone off the rails, though any help would be appreciated.

    jleuze! thanks for all the help, i figured it out already. it as a google ad expanding the column. thanks!

    No problem project_rai, if you run into problems again try Firebug. It is handy for looking at the padding and margins on different elements, it could help you pinpoint problem areas.

    got the same problem Talkingmobile

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