Theme Jacked up in IE 6 and & - Fine in Firefox, Safari and Chrome

Posted by demian dellinger on November 17, 2008 at 11:47pm

The site I'm working on http://shoemadam.com is flawless in Firefox, Safari and Chrome but in IE 6 and 7 (and 8 beta) it is a disaster.

The theme is a theme I have used before with no problem from RoopleThemes.

What do I need to do to fix this?

Comments

hmmm

Posted by hferree on November 18, 2008 at 5:11am

Wow. Big difference. Silly question: does the site work in Garland or another default theme? It might be a line of CSS (sometimes IE dislikes padding, margins, and other nice css features) or something else that's different from the time that you used it last that is causing the error.

I never had the site in a

Posted by demian dellinger on November 18, 2008 at 5:36am

I never had the site in a default theme, but that said I don't know that it ever looked right in IE, I don't really use it and usually just do a check in IE later.

I used the same theme on a different site http://beachsalerealestate.com and it worked fine. There is an additional "outside sidebar" active on this version but even when that sidebar is not active (no active blocks) it is still jacked up in IE.

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Beach Sales Network -

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Well, start with the

Posted by dman on November 18, 2008 at 5:52am

Well, start with the obvious:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fshoemadam.com%2F

Your HTML is not just invalid in some areas, it's actually structurally broken with unclosed tags and things.
As a result IE thinks that all your content is actually inside sidebar-left. And tries to squash it to fit.

It's a syntax thing. IE is probably actually being strictly correct, and FF shouldn't have forgiven you those errors.

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