Where are my sidebars in IE?

  • I don’t use IE, largely because it sucks monkey butt. So I hadn’t seen the Coalblog I just inherited with my new job (www.coal.ca/blog/) in IE until today.

    Evidently the sidebars are shy, because they appear for just the slightest moment as the page loads, and then POOF! They’re gone. I have no idea why.

    If it helps, I’ve checked in the following browsers:

    Firefox latest version (Win) – Sidebars appear
    IE v6.0.29(Win) – Sidebars are missing
    IE version unknown, but recent (on a miniMac) (Mac) – Sidebars appear

    Thanks,
    Heather

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  • They are there… just covered for some unknown reason by some white “something” ?? – if you hover the cursor where they are supposed to be you’ll notice the links are there. I think it’s just a bad design.

    You have lots of validation errors. See those icons that you have in the right sidebar saying how the pages validate? Clicking the XHTML one will show you the 33 XHTML errors. Then check the CSS from there.

    If I were you and I were in the mood to tinker, I’d experiment with eliminating the <div id="outerwrapper"> and the corresponding </div> at the end.

    Speaking of validation….

    Is there anyway to make sure that post content (mainly embedded flash movies) do not overflow onto it?

    See here: https://www.campuskey.com/chinese/chinese-empire/

    ??help

    If the elements are positioned absolutely, you can use the z-index property to control which one comes out on top.

    I don’t know the answer, but the first place I check is here:

    https://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

    Maybe the max-height and max-width properties? I don’t know if that will work with a Flash object.

    https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_dimension.asp

    Thread Starter agentnox

    (@agentnox)

    Thanks. The template was designed by my predecessor, by mucking around with an existing WordPress 1.2 template. I upgraded to 1.5 and followed directions on how to keep the existing template. Unfortunately, I never looked at the blog in IE before the upgrade, so I’m not sure if the sidebar issue was in place already or if somehow the transition to 1.5 has prompted it.

    I did try commenting out the <div id="outerwrapper"> portion of my stylesheet, and that just put the main column on the left, it didn’t make the sidebars appear.

    I’ll run the code through the validator and start trying to correct the errors, but I remain open to and grateful for any other suggestions.

    Thanks,
    Heather

    Thread Starter agentnox

    (@agentnox)

    Well, the sidebars are still missing or hidden or just utterly buggered, however you’d like to describe it.

    Does anyone have any suggestions? I don’t really have the time to spend fussing with the stylesheet. I know it worked when the blog ran on 1.2, and I’m just mystified how the upgrade, for which I followed some pretty precise instructions to keep the template as-is, could have had this result.

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