Title: Comments Rendering problem in IE
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comments Rendering problem in IE

 *  [g0nk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/g0nk/)
 * (@g0nk)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-rendering-problem-in-ie/)
 * Greetings!
 * I am having an odd rendering problem with IE. When you visit the comments page
   for a post on my site, it bumps the sidebar down to below the comments preview.
   All other pages on the site display fine with IE, except for the comments page.
   Also, the comments pages display perfectly with FireFox.
 * Here is the main site:
    [http://g0nk.com](http://g0nk.com) As you can see, I 
   have the side bar on the right as normal. You can click on Archives, or anything
   under the “misc.” group and see that the sidebar is displayed correctly as well.
 * Here is a link to a comments page:
    [http://g0nk.com/?p=14#comments](http://g0nk.com/?p=14#comments)
   Here you can see how it’s messed up..
 * I’ve been rummaging thru the code for about 2 days now and can’t for the life
   of me figure out why it’s doing this. If anyone can take a look and let me know
   if they have any ideas, I would be gretly appreciative. Also, view everything
   in FireFox to see how it displays fine in that browser.
 * Thanks!
    g0nk

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 *  Thread Starter [g0nk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/g0nk/)
 * (@g0nk)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-rendering-problem-in-ie/#post-215876)
 * update: I thought possibly if i upgraded to WP 1.5.1.2 it would fix this, but
   i’m still having problems… is there any other information I need to post to help
   with this?
 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-rendering-problem-in-ie/#post-215879)
 * Upgrading was a good idea, but not a fix. The Theme did not change because nothing
   was done to upgrade IT. 😉
 * You have some validation [errors](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//g0nk.com/%3Fp%3D14%23comments)
   including a lot div, which might have something to do with it. Fix those, but
   in reality, make your comment boxes narrower and it might solve itself.
 * Different browsers define margins and padding differently, and it looks like 
   it is just being pushed down because the comments form inputs are too wide. Narrow
   them and if the sidebar pops back into place, you’ll have the problem solved.
   If not, and you’ve cleaned up the errors, then let us know.
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-rendering-problem-in-ie/#post-215880)
 * It will be the text input box being too wide. Reset the width in the CSS.
 *  Thread Starter [g0nk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/g0nk/)
 * (@g0nk)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-rendering-problem-in-ie/#post-215893)
 * Lorelle: i fixed the errors.. was something else, I added another button and 
   fergot to add a closing tag. whoops..
 * I ended up fixing it.. it was a push/pull margin fight between 2 elements in 
   the comments style sheets.. i think the commentarea was pushing 20px to the right,
   and the live preview area was pushing -13px to the left.. dunno really how that
   got like that.. but it’s fixed now.. 🙂

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 * Last activity: [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-rendering-problem-in-ie/#post-215893)
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