sidebar font size different in IE

Hi,

First of all, you need to validate your site. A check with the W3C HTML Validator reveals 13 errors that need to be corrected.

Someone’s pasting text directly from Microsoft Word. The Craig Jackson post at line 383 is where it starts. Your style formatting is messed up from that point south. Refer to this thread about bad things that happen when you put unfiltered Word-code into your site.

Also take a look at the “Nitardy Funeral Home” link above the sidebar search box. Not good. The source code is this:

<a href="https://www.nitardyfuneralhomes.com"><p style="text-align: center;">Nitardy Funeral Home</p></a>

It needs to be this:

<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nitardyfuneralhomes.com">Nitardy Funeral Home</a></p>

Hope this helps!

Thanks so much! I’ll get to work on these corrections.

I instructed my client to use the “Paste from Word” function in the WordPress menu. Is this the correct thing to do? My client mentioned periodically another person enteres the post. Was the line 383 post perhaps entered wrong, and the person did not use the “Paste from Word”?

Yes, they pasted directly from Word in the Jackson post of 4-25-09. The source code still looks like this (now on line 424):

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Craig Edward Jackson, age 60, of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, died <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturday, April 25, 2009, at the Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital, in Fort Atkinson, WI.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"> <a href="https://www.nitardyfuneralhome.com/obits/2009/04/25/jackson-craig-edward-april-25-2009/#more-150" class="more-link">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</a></p>

You can see how the font formatting changed the site’s appearance after that post.

MS Word tags frequently apply local styles to text and formatting which overrides your stylesheet, and makes a mess of your layout. In this instance, they look like this:

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">

<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>

The “Paste From Word” in the text editor is entirely different, as it strips all the MS Word tags and enters plain text instead.

The client, and any other person that has permission, needs to be aware of the above. They can look at the text in the HTML tab of the text editor and see if it’s okay or not when creating or updating a post. The plain text won’t have the MS Word tags.