HTML in text widgets

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  ofbooksandbikes · Member · Dec 30, 2006 at 2:33 pm

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  When I put HTML in a text widget (to create a link or simply to create line breaks), my blog’s formatting gets messed up in Internet Explorer — part of the sidebar appears where the blog post should be. How can I put HTML in a text widget without this happening? Ack — my username takes you to my Blogger blog, which I’m considering dumping. My WordPress blog is at http://ofbooksandbikes.wordpress.com

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  mark · Member · Dec 30, 2006 at 2:41 pm

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  It’s the books widget.
  You have <li> tags but they are not surrounded by either <ul> or <ol> tags.

  I would suggest using <ol> tags and then adjusting the text to remove the numbers you have there already.

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  ofbooksandbikes · Member · Dec 30, 2006 at 2:45 pm

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  Got it — thanks so much! My problem is that I know only a tiny bit of HTML. Will have to learn more …

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  drmike · Member · Dec 30, 2006 at 3:48 pm

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  One quick suggestion – Notice how I changed the link in your first post in this thread. The ‘www’ and ‘ofbooksandbikes’ bits should not coexist within a link like that. 30% of the folks on teh internet as well as most search engine spiders can’t follow such a link as the way you had it.

  Regards,
  -drmike

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  ofbooksandbikes · Member · Dec 30, 2006 at 4:15 pm

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  Thanks drmike!

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  drmike · Member · Dec 30, 2006 at 4:24 pm

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  Not a problem. :)

  Regards,
  -drmike

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  luddista · Member · Oct 16, 2007 at 7:35 am

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  thanks a lot for the question and for the answer. I spent about 3 days trying everything to fix the same problem with the text widgets on IE reported above, and finaly discovered the difference between “li” and “ol” here…