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  timethief · Member · Nov 19, 2011 at 11:43 pm

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  Edit: “vice” was meant to be “nice”

  Is there a workaround for IE? I know…don’t use it, but some of the site visitors use it, so I have to consider it.

  I don’t know of any workarounds. Perhaps another Volunteer will have a workaround that they can share. I only know that many web developers and web designers have an extremely dim opinion of IE browsers.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 20, 2011 at 12:50 am

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  IE is a bad browser because it continues to ignore various web standards.

  I’m a Mac user, so I cannot check how things look in IE. If you mean you’re seeing a little bit of the original at the top and the bottom, as timethief reported, you can increase the negative top margin and the height till you cover it completely. If you mean you’re seeing the whole original frame, there’s nothing you can do about it till Microsoft decides to conform.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 20, 2011 at 1:07 am

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  @panaghiotisadam
  Hello there,
  What I see using IE8 is a black border band approximately 1/4 inches deep both above and below the slides. I do not see any black on either side.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 20, 2011 at 1:38 am

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  Yes thanks TT. If that’s the case then you’re seeing the white mask and it only needs to be made larger the way I suggested above. But we don’t know which version of the creature fayence is using: maybe an older version won’t show the mask at all.

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  fayence · Member · Nov 20, 2011 at 4:39 pm

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  I’m using IE-8.

  On IE-8 – I tried changing the top margin to -520 (instead of -500) and got a black area between the slideshow and the text beneath it. The black area at the top of the slide show didn’t change. As TT says, there is no black border on the left/right sides.

  Back to Google Chrome – I tried to figure out the 2 third-party slideshows that WP.com says will work but got nowhere. One of them keeps asking for a picture after I up-loaded a few. The other just sat there.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 20, 2011 at 5:43 pm

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  Sounds like IE won’t accept moving the white rectangle any higher. Try adding this before the slideshow shortcode to move the slideshow lower:
  <div style="height:30px;visibility:hidden;">-</div>
  Then continue with the adjustments in the other code.

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  fayence · Member · Nov 20, 2011 at 8:16 pm

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  As it turns out, I upgraded to Internet Explorer version 9, the most current version, and the black border at the top and bottom disappeared.

  Now it works the same on IE as Google Chrome.

  Thanks.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 21, 2011 at 12:54 am

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  You’re welcome. Yes, IE9 is better than previous versions, but unfortunately many users still use those earlier versions, so you should try to take care of things as I suggested.