Why is my main page not appearing correctly in Internet Explorer?

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  craigtowens · Member · Jul 4, 2011 at 3:22 pm

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  When going to craigtowens.com, the three columns do not appear correctly. But if I click on an individual post, then the proper formatting appears. This only happens in Explorer. Firefox and Safari do not have an issue.

  If it’s helpful, I have two screenshots I can share with you.
  Blog url: http://craigtowens.wordpress.com/

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  zefontainhas · Member · Jul 4, 2011 at 3:30 pm

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  Screenshots would most certainly help, thanks; on my end your blog appears to display correctly.

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  craigtowens · Member · Jul 4, 2011 at 3:36 pm

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  How can I upload the screenshots to you?

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  zefontainhas · Member · Jul 4, 2011 at 3:39 pm

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  You can upload them to your Media library and I’ll take a look at them there, thanks.

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  craigtowens · Member · Jul 4, 2011 at 3:50 pm

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  Two pictures are uploaded: one of the incorrect view (on the main page), and one of the correct view (after I click on an individual post).

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  zefontainhas · Member · Jul 4, 2011 at 3:52 pm

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  Ok (you can delete that post now, if you want), this appears to be either a connection issue, i.e. the CSS styles aren’t being applied or, more likely a browser issue. Could you to clear cache & cookies and reloading the page?

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  craigtowens · Member · Jul 4, 2011 at 4:06 pm

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  I cleared everything. When I reload the page, it starts to load correctly (I see all three columns just for a brief moment) and then it reverts to the one column view again. Any other thoughts?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 4, 2011 at 7:01 pm

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  Can you tell us what browser (and version of) you’re using?

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  craigtowens · Member · Jul 4, 2011 at 7:05 pm

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  I’m using the latest Explorer (I believe it’s 10). The problem only occurs on the main page. It doesn’t occur on the individual post, or when using Firefox or Safari.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 4, 2011 at 7:20 pm

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  I do see the problem now, in IE 9 (10 isn’t release yet), so I’ll pass this on and see what we we can do about that.

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  craigtowens · Member · Jul 6, 2011 at 1:35 pm

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  Any updates to pass along on this? I appreciate your expertise (way beyond my knowledge base!).

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 6, 2011 at 7:26 pm

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  Unfortunately, this is not actually a general issue with your theme.

  There’s something on your blog messing with IE, probably in your posts.

  To find it, I recommend setting your blog to display one post at a time via Settings -> Reading in your Dashboard, then page through your posts individually until you find the problem.

  If you can’t find a single post causing the issue, start removing widgets individually until you find the cause.

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  lance · Staff · Jul 6, 2011 at 9:25 pm

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  @craigtowens

  This is a weird one! We’ve spent a bit of time troubleshooting it, but didn’t come up with anything to report.

  For now I’ve fixed it by changing the setting on your Settings > Reading page to “10” for “Blog pages show at most”.

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  craigtowens · Member · Jul 6, 2011 at 10:37 pm

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  Thanks for all your help!! It looks “normal” again. :-)

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  lance · Staff · Jul 6, 2011 at 10:44 pm

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  Great to hear that. Thanks for your patience.