News bloggs jumps down the menu in IE5,5 & 6,0

  • Resolved peterhenrichsen

    (@peterhenrichsen)


    17 years, 6 months ago

    Hi!

    I have a problem om ny danish site called https://www.kulturfoto.dk , and I really need a tip to get a little further.

    I’m quite a newbie with WordPress, and the danish forum wasn’t able to help. Though it might be because we have so few users, not that the problem is especially hard I think.

    IE 5,5 and 6,0 My news jumps under the menu

    I uses WordPress as a newssystem with articles and photos from different cultural arrangements in Copenhagen. My site looks very nice in all browsers I know, except IE 5,5 and IE 6,0.
    In these two browsers, my site also looks nice the first split second, but then all my news (bloggs) jumps one screen height down, to lay just under the menu.

    See some screen shots here

    https://browsershots.org/screenshots/08e90422e4c8246816bf0c25eb1e341e/

    No problems with text news

    In IE5,5 and 6,0 there are no problems if a choose an article only with text, so I guess my problems has something to do with the pictures!?

    Only some news from the archive causes trouble

    First guess is that it has something to do with the length of the picture, but if one of the news that jumps down the menu, is chosen from the archive menu instead, it sometimes is shown correctly like in IE 7,0, at top of the screen. But only sometimes, peculiar insn’t it?

    Must have something to do with pictures!?

    Well, if some particulary news sometimes looks allright, and doesn’t jump down, I guess it can’t be a problem with the picture lenght? After all it is possible to show it correct in IE5,5 & 6,0.

    But there must be some code that makes the news in IE 5,5 and 6,0 jump down under the menu after half a second, and I guess it must have something to do with pictures. Can you follow me that long?

    Very greatfull for a tip

    I am very greatfull for a tip in any direction. I don’t know WordPress so well, so please tell me what file to edit, and try to correct. Since my site only looks awfull in IE 5,5 and 6,0, I guess there must be other WordPress users, who has met the same problem with the old IE browers, that unfortunately still are used by many people.

    Thanks so much for any help.

    Best regards Peter from Copenhagen

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  • Those images are too wide.

    You cannot put a 490px wide image in a div thats only 500px wide, tack on padding and margins and expect ie6 and below to handle it well.

    You need to reduce the width of those images.

    To make troubleshooting these sorts of things easier in the future, do this:

    Your theme uses a sidebar on single post pages, ie .. look here:

    https://kulturfoto.dk/?p=79

    Compare the above to this:

    https://kulturfoto.dk/?p=20

    You can and ought to be looking at your single post pages for items within your post content that might cause problems.

    Its much easier than looking at a front page and not knowing which particular post is the problem.

    Thread Starter peterhenrichsen

    (@peterhenrichsen)

    Thank you SO much, whooami!

    I was so glad to see your post, really ??

    I can easily adjust the length of the pictures, so they are just 450 pix as the post you mentioned as working fine.

    But for example at a post like

    https://kulturfoto.dk/?cat=4

    my picture isn’t wide at all, it’s just a portrait picture with the length of 300 px, but merged with text, and then it fails to be shown correctly in IE 6,0, and jumps down under the menu in IE6.0

    So I guess you’re on the right track that IE 6,0 can’t cope with picture OR pictures+text close to the DIV of 500px.

    BUT, when I in my styles.css enlarge the content width from 500px to for example 550, I can produce the same error in the new IE 7,0 – the posts jumps down under the menu, because there isn’t room enough in the width.

    That sounds logical and correct, but when I try to minimize the width in content to for example 300px, the post still doesn’t place correctly on top of screen besides (left to) the menu in IE6,0?

    I mean, if you have an idea that the content’s just to wide, it’s always good to try something that you know should absolutely work, and a width of 300px should absolutely work. What I can see is lots of place for both the slim 300px posts column and the menu, but still the posts jumps down under the menu in IE6,0 – peculiar, isn’t it?

    Must admit that I’m a newbee and don’t know where to look!

    So again thank you very much in advance!

    Best Regards Peter

    But for example at a post like
    https://kulturfoto.dk/?cat=4
    my picture isn’t wide at all,

    Not correct! Your bottom photo is too large.
    You have to add: photo’s width+right margin+right padding+left margin+left padding+borders (if any) = cannot be more than the container element!

    Thread Starter peterhenrichsen

    (@peterhenrichsen)

    HI!

    Well, breaking news!

    My posts jumps nicely on top of the screen, and to the left of my menu i IE6,0 and 5,5 when I adjust the main container fra 780px til 790px!

    Just so peculiar that minimizing the content width didn’t work at all!

    Again, Thank You so much for help and leading me in a correct direction! ??

    Best wishes Peter

    Thread Starter peterhenrichsen

    (@peterhenrichsen)

    Thanks Moshu!

    Didn’t see your comment there at first glance.

    Do you mean, that if any object in the post, even if they’re not shown, will make the post to pop down under the menu, if the last picture for example is to wide.

    Even though the first part of the article (until MORE) isn’t to wide?

    Best REgards Peter

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