Bear With Me
Just discovered today that the changes I made to my blog design, which look pretty good on the Firefox browser, don't quite work the same way on internet explorer.
I'll try to make the necessary adjustments. In the meantime, if you want to see how great it looks, use the Firefox browser, which you can download for free!
If anybody can give this novice web designer a hint as to how I can stop internet explorer from throwing my sidebar to the bottom of the page, I'd appreciate the help!
Peace,
Mark
I'll try to make the necessary adjustments. In the meantime, if you want to see how great it looks, use the Firefox browser, which you can download for free!
If anybody can give this novice web designer a hint as to how I can stop internet explorer from throwing my sidebar to the bottom of the page, I'd appreciate the help!
Peace,
Mark
posted by Mark Mossa, SJ at 5:31 PM
7 Comments:
I read on bloglines, so I don't see anybody's graphics or layout.
There are people who still use IE? Tell me it's not so! :)
Mirty might be of some help over at CodeScripter.
She uses percentages instead of pixels for page width.
I had a similar problem and someone recommended that I put my page width at 700 px (main=450 and sidebar=200 -- I guess the extra ones are padding?). That seems to show up ok in IE as well as Firefox.
Good luck.
You just convinced me to go back to firefox.
Thanks Talmida.
I tried your suggestions, but still don't quite have what I need for IE. I'm going to have to get someone who knows what they're doing to look at my template. I'm sure it's probably something really simple!
Still looking OK on Firefox though!!
Tamilda is on the right track. It has to do with the construction of the main and sidebar sections in the template. You need to read the meta section of your template and count up the pixels in all of the elements and make sure that they do not exceed the total pixels in your overall blog width. By using the values given by Tamilda, you still may not have your overall blog wide enough to contain both your main and sidebar. My guess is that the picture at the top of your sidebar is what is making the sidebar too wide.
Firefox allows the overall blog size to expand while IE remains static with the definitions set in the meta section of the html page.
you can also check the syntax of the realized html at http://validator.w3.org/
this might give you some add'l insight
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