In IE page shifts left and funny characters at top

  • Hi there. I have an odd problem. In IE some of my themes, like the one running on my site now (https://www.websolutionsbylynn.com) shift the content area to the left (it should be centered). You can see on this theme that the images around it area centered. There are also some weird little characters at the very top left of the page. I can’t figure out what these are and what is generating them, but I wonder if that is the problem. Those appear in both Firefox and IE, but at least the page displays centered in Firefox. Can anyone help me with this? I’ve compared header.php, index.php, and page.php files in different themes and can’t figure out what is different. Thanks! Lynn

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  • Would love to know if you or anyone else figured this out. I am having the same issue with a php script I’m running. Not a WordPress template, but I’m sure it’s the same issue.

    As for the ‘weird little characters’, check your source code. There are some junk characters at the top.

    And the IE issue, it looks like the DOCTYPE isn’t properly declared. You will need to go into the header file and remove any extra characters. Also, check your CSS for full compatibility.

    I figured out what this was on my end. If you are using UTF8 encoding try UTF8 without BOM. The BOM adds a character at the top of the page which will throw IE7 into quarks mode. Notepad ++ can do this for you.

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