By Thomasr976 on

I am building a drupal site on XAMPP using Drupal 5.3 with a Garland theme. I use FF to create nodes and for all admin work and then use IE6 to see how the site renders for anonymous users. Also do the same for anonymous users with FF.

All of a sudden the right sided block now shows up below the story node when I view it in IE6 either as an admin or as an anonymous user. When I change the text size in IE6 from medium to smallest, it repositions to the right side. Never had this problem before.

There's no problem with the block's position with FF as an Admin or Anonymous user.

Does anyone have an idea of how to fix this?

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kjl commented

If you have bad html in a post that'll happen. Like if a teaser cuts off the closing div. Installing the html corrector module can help, if that's the problem.

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Thomasr976 commented

to create story nodes and don't mess with the code so much. When you refer to the teaser cutting off the div tag, what are you referring to?

Also thanks for helping me.

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kjl commented

If you copy and paste cntent from another source like a word document or another web site into TinyMCE, it will copy the underlying formatting, including divs. If the teaser that is automatically generated by Drupal cuts off the text before a div is closed, that will cause a problem in IE. Firefox is more forgiving of these errors, that's why you wouldn't see it there. Installing the htmlcorrector module, or manually inserting a break in the story after the div closes usually fixes it, if that is indeed the problem.

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Thomasr976 commented

I did check out the last couple of stories I posted for bad code as u suggested. You make a good point about posting from MS Word or a web page. I never do that though. I always post right into a text editor and then just copy the text only into tinymce to make sure things are clean.

Then I rechecked the blocks module. it was ok. Because I had to go home I signed off. Now at home, I turned on my laptop and everything is fine (so far).

Still want to thank you for your help and for telling me about the htmlcorrector module. I'm always learning and if I can repay your kindness with some usability advice, let me know.

Tom
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