imhotep theme in internet explorer: looking for a fix

It looks ok to me using IE.

What version are you running?

thanks for checking. i’m using 1) ie version 5.2, mac osx 10.3

also, 2) the same sidebar problem occurred using ie version 6 on a pc running windows xp at work. i haven’t encountered the problem using firefox or opera.

i tried googling this, went through hundreds of search results, and did find a couple other people who experienced the same problem, but i couldn’t find a fix. if i were only better at css, so i could figure this out myself (i’m learning, but can’t attain wisdom overnight, unfortunately =).

i just noticed, by the way, that when the content in the main column ends, that’s when the content in the sidebar column begins, in the 2 instances of the ie “sidebar content gets shoved to the bottom of the page” bug. what could that point to, in terms of css structure & styling? i’m a little curious as to why the background styling of the sidebar column holds its place, it’s just the content inside the column that gets shifted down.

sometimes i find it easier to fix problems using backwards inference.

Well Mac IE does act differently, however, I’m using XP and it looked ok. I’ll take a look in the morning to see if anything pops to mind.

It strikes me that jbbrwcky is looking at a.trendyname.org instead of looking at misfit’s site because misfit didn’t provide a link to his site. Hence “it looks fine” to him.

As to your problem, without a link I can’t say for sure, but similar things happen a lot in Internet Explorer when fixed widths are used in CSS. There’s a solution, involving conditional comments to send IE to a different stylesheet.

https://virtuelvis.com/archives/2004/02/css-ie-only

I was able to implement this in a couple of minutes, so it’s not difficult. The hardest part is going through the CSS, changing the fixed widths that IE doesn’t like and then saving it as “styleforie.css” or whatever.

Tom, you’re right. I thought he was talking about trendyname’s site!

yes, jbbr, you were right:

is anyone enough of a css genius that you could take a look at a.trendyname.org, using internet explorer, and figure out what’s causing the right column content shift?

this does make it difficult if not everyone is seeing this bug. it’s weird, i go to trendyname’s website both on my mac and on my pc at work, and the sidebar is shoved to the bottom, sidebar h2/h3s are scrunched together, and the little elements in the very top (search and date) are slammed together. i wonder why some people using ie see this, but other’s don’t, it isn’t mac/pc specific, at least in my instance.