Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.In IE6 with zen-fixed only......As you navigate from page to page on a site with the Zen-fixed theme, the width of the main page varies depending on what's in it - ie if there's a long URL for example.
However, all the header bars etc stay the same width and are left aligned, so it makes the page look a bit 'wonky' (couldn't think of a better word), with the top of the page over to the left, and the lower bit extending to the right.
An easy way to see this is to visit admin/themes (but of course users won't see that).
It means that the page position seems to fluctuate a lot when visiting different pages.
Is this simply a limitation of having a pure CSS theme that we'll have to learn to live with - or can anything be done about it?
It all seems fine in Firefox.
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Comment #1
steveparks commentedhmmm for some reason the submit form has remembered the attachment from a previous response I made to another issue - even though it didn't show on the submit form. curioser and curioser! The screengrab is not relevant here, please ignore it.
Comment #2
jjeff commentedAre you saying that the screengrab JPEG that you attached is not relevant to this issue?
I'm guessing that the problem is the "overflowing" tables in the admin section. This is always a problem with fixed-width themes. And I'm guessing that IE is adding the width of the overflowing table to the width of the #page div so that the page appears to "shift left".
Because there are so many large tables in the admin section, we recommend using the regular Zen (fluid) theme as the administration theme (a setting in Drupal 5) rather than the fixed-width version.
However, it would be nice to figure out how to get IE not to shift things when there is overflow like this. I might try adjusting the "overflow" setting on the #page element and see how IE interprets it. However, it's likely that unless we set things to "overflow: hidden" (which would hide the right edge of anything that is too wide, IE is still going to knock things off balance like this.
Comment #3
steveparks commentedOk, thanks jeff.. all makes sense.
Yes, the attached screenshot relates to another issue, so is not relevant here (although actually it may by chance show this issue). drupal.org project issue module just seemed to remember it and submit it again with this issue!
Comment #4
jjeff commentedI'm going to mark this as won't fix because I haven't actually seen it myself. But please post screenshots if I have just missed something.
Comment #5
zirafa commentedAgreed. Have not observed this myself. My guess it is the module's own CSS output breaking the theme.