[teaching with drupal] IE6 theming issue--help!

[Charlie Lowe]

This is small consolation, but looks like IE 6 will be less of a concern 
on Feb 12. MS is going to push IE 7 onto all systems using Windows Update:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/17/Microsoft-warns-businesses-of-autoupdate-to-IE7_1.html

Dan Butcher wrote:
> Marc--
> 
> Thanks for the tip--I had forgotten that IE6 doesn't work well with padding.
> I tried various settings with padding in various style sheets, and nothing
> made a difference. For now, I'm calling it quits on trying to fix it--in
> terms of access to information on the site, it's more annoying than anything
> else, because nothing appears in the right sidebar on the blog and
> announcement pages that isn't available elsewhere on the site.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Jan 19, 2008 4:06 PM, Marc C. Santos <mcsantos at purdue.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Dan,
>>
>> I can't see what the problem is, but looking at your conditional comment,
>> you
>> should zero out the padding for IE. You might have already tried this, but
>> IE
>> and padding play by their own rules (and the problem you are describing
>> sounds
>> exactly what IE likes to do).
>>
>> Marc
>>
>> --
>> Ph.D Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition
>> Purdue University
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>> West Lafayette, IN 47906
>> http://www.marccsantos.com
>>
>> "Order is no longer assured."
>>                   --Derrida, Archive Fever
>>
>>
>> Quoting Dan Butcher <dan at danbutcher.com>:
>>
>>> I'm using a slightly customized version of the Zen theme on my course
>> sites,
>>> and everything is displaying correctly--except, of course, in IE6
>> (haven't
>>> tried IE7 lately, so that may not work either).
>>>
>>> The problem is with the right sidebar; it moves to the bottom of the
>>> page--but only on my announcements and blog pages. On the home page and
>> book
>>> pages, the sidebar appears where it is supposed to. On the announcements
>> and
>>> blog pages, the space is there for the sidebar blocks, but the sidebar
>> won't
>>> go where it is supposed to go. I've opened the site for visitors to all
>> but
>>> the blog posts; you can see the announcements page here:
>>>
>>> http://courses.danbutcher.com/101q/announcements
>>>
>>> I've looked through the code and css and can't find anything that would
>> make
>>> the blog and announcement pages handle the layout differently than the
>> rest
>>> of the site.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions, insights, etc. are welcome!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dan
>>> _________________
>>> Dan Butcher
>>> Instructor and Webmaster
>>> Department of English
>>> University of Alabama at Birmingham
>>> dan at danbutcher.com
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