Firefox breaks default theme in 2.02

  • Resolved deko

    (@deko)


    18 years, 10 months ago

    In IE, everything looks fine. But with Firefox, a blog using the default theme (WordPress Default 1.5 by Michael Heilemann) displays incorrectly.

    I have not modified the default template in any way.

    The problem is that the center white window, in Firefox, does not extend down far enough to encompass all posts – it stops at the bottom of the sidebar and text of the posts extend down into the gray.

    I have saved the problem display here:

    https://www.clearpointsystems.com/FirefoxBreaksTheme.html

    Does anyone else have this problem? How to fix? This seems like a big goof on the part of the WP team.

    Is there some css trick I need to accomodate Firefox?

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  • The problem is that the server is sending CSS as text/plain rather than text/css. IE doesn’t care about that sort of thing, but FireFox does, and so doesn’t attempt to interpret the stylesheet.

    Give this information to the host and they should fix it. If they don’t, it’s time to look for a different host.

    (The Firefox Webdeveloper extension is highly recommended for this kind of problem)

    LesBessant, Thanks, that sounds like a promising line of enquiry. That should be an httpd.conf thing shouldn’t it? I have access to the conf files and will take a look. I’ll also look at the Webdeveloper extension.
    This sounds very good, thanks again.

    That did the trick. Had to tweak the mime type so that a file ending with .css was sent as text/css. Thanks to all for the help. Can put the Excedrin back on the shelf!!

    I just found the same problem with my site.

    By comparing working & non-working themes, I noticed that my theme was missing the line:
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
    Instead the reference to the stylesheet was writtne:
    <style type="text/css" media="screen">@import url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> );</style>

    Adding in the first lot of code to my header.php file seems to fix the problem. the file still validates fine & now it displays correctly. I don’t get why writing it as in the first line should be a problem though.

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