IE6.0 displays sidebar at bottom

You must have deleted a closing tag. Post your your site URL so people can look at it or use the code validator at The W3C Markup Validation Service to find your code errors.

Hey Songdogtech,

Whoops, my mistake, sorry.

The url is https://www.skolaiimages.com/journal.

I’m cautiously going thru the validator, trying to find the error -it’s hidden among many, I’m afraid, mostly from plugins and things I loaded in the sidebar. Unfortunately, it’s a slow process – one step at time, I thought I’d try to find this one first.

Should I post the code to singlepost.php here?

Thank you.

Cheers

Carl

Get a fresh copy of single.php for your theme and compare to that. Disable plugins and see if that fixes the problem.

Hey songdogtech,

OK – do I have to download an entire WP folder, or is there somewhere I can just download that particular file?

Thanks again.

Cheers

Carl

Hey songdogtech,

Nevermind – I just downloaded the whole thing, I’m sure I’ll need it.

Thanks again.

Cheers

Carl

You’re editing your theme, not WordPress as a whole. You’re only editing your theme that sits in wp-content/themes/nameoftheme; don’t edit anything else in the wordpress directory or you’ll have even more problems.

Hey songdogtech,

OK – I replaced the file I was using with the one I downloaded from wp .. and the entire sidebar disappeared.

I tried adding in what I thought was a missing <div> tag, and the sidebar went haywire (it looks fine in Firefox, as I said before, but with another <div> tag in there it went all askew.

Still lost here.

Thanks.

Cheers

Carl

ps – oh, yes, I just saw your last post – yes, I’m only editing the singlepost.php file .. .. but I downloaded the whole wp folder and will keep it as reference/backup for next time I completely mess things up. ??

Don’t simply replace the existing singlepage.php with the new singlepage.php. Open both of them side by side in a text editor and compare the files to see where your missing tags are.

Hey songdogtech

I’m sorry, I kinda missed a few steps in telling you what I did. Yes, I checked them over in text Edit, and the only div tag I could see that looked like it was missing, to me, was one before the ‘endwhile else’ code …. I put one in, and the page went askew in all browsers. The sidebar moved over closer to the left, and was all haywire. I’m wondering if something is wrong in the style sheet, like a column is not wide enough or something.

It didn’t seem to matter where I put the tag, the same thing happens. Teh sidebar moves left, and the text for the sidebar doesn’t start until down below the rest of main page.

Cheers

Carl

Get the site back to working in everything except IE6, and then rename the unedited copy of the default WP theme you downloaded earlier and check that in IE6. If it looks OK in IE6, then go back through your validation report and fix other missing tags, like the <ul>‘s and <li>‘s in your edited theme. Do things one step at a time and eliminate problems one by one. Disable plugins and widgets, too, to see if it’s one of those that is messing up IE6.

Hey songdogtech,

OK, i’ll try that, thanks. It’s OK so far in the other browsers I’ve checked, and when I tried a temporary replacement with the default WP theme file, it deletes the sidebar altogether, in all browsers. I’m suspecting the problem is not in the singlepost file, does that sound correct? More likely in the style sheet perhaps (column widths) or the sidebar maybe?

Thanks again.

Cheers

Carl

From an hour ago:

….then go back through your validation report and fix other missing tags, like the <ul>'s and <li>'s in your edited theme. Do things one step at a time and eliminate problems one by one. Disable plugins and widgets, too, to see if it’s one of those that is messing up IE6.

Hey songdogtech,

I’ll give it a whirl – if you knew how ignorant I am about this stuff, you’d die laughing.

Thank you.

Cheers

Carl

Hey songdogtech

I actually tried replacing the sidebar with the default sidebar file from WP, and it still doesn’t display correctly in IE6.0.

Do you think it could be a width or something incorrect in the style sheet?

Thanks.

Cheers

Carl