February 13, 2007

Quick Question For IE (version 7.0) Geeks

Saturday, 19 Shivring 2007

This site looks the way I want it to in Firefox. But, when I bring up the page in IE Carumba! Internet Explorer version 7 (.0.5730.11), I get this funky sequence of events:

1. The banner at the top loads.
2. The links side bar loads.
3. The main page area (where the posts can be seen) loads.
4. As the main page loads, it wipes out the side links, so now there's some empty space to the left of the main page area (which is just a bit narrower than my links) where all the links used to be, and the links are gone from the page.

I'm using Movable Type 3.2 with a few basic templates that have been somewhat tweaked over time. I believe the main area is set up to fill in the rest of the space, after the links area gets written to the page, and that I've set up the sidebar to be 205 pixels wide. I've experimented with changing the side bar width, the monitor settings (up to the 1600x1200 range or so), and the details of the blog header fields (both how and what to display), in the stylesheet and main templates, without changing the event sequence.. I've also searched the Movable Type help and user forums and got one hit on internet explorer 7 which was not pertinent to the issue at hand.

Any ideas on solving the problem and keeping the site looking the same in FireFox (and NetScrap, Opera, etc.) would be greatly appreciated.

Posted by (: Tom :) at February 13, 2007 04:20 PM