Why is my validated website rendering strange in IE6?

  • Resolved brittanie

    (@brittanie)


    18 years, 9 months ago

    I hacked the Three-column Relaxation theme to have the sidebars on left and right (instead of both on the right) and I though all was well. The site is valid xhtml and CSS and looks great in Safari and Firefox on the Mac, then I tested it on my husband’s work machine, which uses IE6, and one sidebar isn’t even showing up, the other (the one that should be left) is waaaaay to the right.

    I think this may have something to do with the fact that I’ve set the position as absolute for both sidebars, but I’m not sure whay one would render but the other would be completely invisible.

    Any CSS help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Dropped sidebars in IE is generally (but not always!) a function of IE’s broken box model (wherein IE adds margin and padding pretty much the opposite of every other browser out there – so the width you think you have, you really don’t in IE). And the absolute positioning isn’t going to help either.

    Your best bet is to read the articles at https://positioniseverything.net and https://meyerweb.com. As well, the css-discuss list has some of the best minds in the css world helping out there, and the archives are a true gem mine of information: https://www.css-discuss.org/.

    Good luck with it. Three and four column themes are right bitches to deal with. (You might try redoing “look-wise” one of the already tweaked-out 3col themes from https://themes.wordpress.net/).

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