Widget viewing error in IE8

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  jeep856 · Member · Dec 5, 2009 at 3:49 am

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  I use Vilgilance theme with the three sidebars (1 wide with 2 narrow under). When viewed via Firefox 3, my sidebars look fine. When viewed in IE8, half of my widgets in my right sidebar are pushed into my left sidebar. This was not always the case and changed about two weeks ago. I was hoping it would return to normal, but no such luck. I have removed the widgets and returned them. I have cleared the cookies, cache.
  Any suggestions in resolving this? thanks

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 5, 2009 at 3:56 am

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  You have some HTML errors in some of the widgets that need to be corrected.

  http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftungstenbytes.wordpress.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

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  jeep856 · Member · Dec 5, 2009 at 4:00 am

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  thanks.
  1. I got the code for changing the color of the alert box from wpbtips.wordpress.com. Is there a way to fix this or should I just go back to default gray box?

  2. Would deleting the text widgets and re-copy/paste from a draft post fix the other issues?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 5, 2009 at 4:04 am

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  The alert box text has two ending HTML tags for the image link. Remove one of the </a> ending tags and that will fix that issue.

  Also, try temporarily removing the vodpod widget and see if that fixes the issue.

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  jeep856 · Member · Dec 5, 2009 at 4:13 am

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  Corrected the first error with no different result.
  Corrected the second error & removing the flickr widget brought everyone in line as intended.
  Thanks, for helping me ID that the flickr widget was creating the problem.
  I will have to play around with it now to see how I can get the flickr widget to play nice with the theme.

  Also, I had checked “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” in settings. Should that not have corrected my error in the alert box code automatically?

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  jeep856 · Member · Dec 5, 2009 at 4:36 am

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  For anyone else having the same issue that widgets jump the sidebar in Vigilance while viewed in IE8….I discovered that when the Flickr widget is the top widget in a sidebar, it pushes all widgets below it to the other sidebar.
  To resolve this, you must not have the Flickr widget in the top position. Having it in any other position (2nd, 3rd, etc) will prevent the other widgets from jumping the sidebar in IE8.
  I don’t know why, but I assume it is something to do with the theme code….or just magic.
  Thanks thescaredpath for your help. Merry Christmas

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  timethief · Member · Dec 5, 2009 at 4:55 am

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  Bookmarked! :)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 5, 2009 at 5:32 am

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  The alert box is not covered by that setting. That setting only effects stuff in the post or page editor.