Title: Customizing WP – IE Border Problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Customizing WP – IE Border Problems

 *  Resolved [stevenski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenski/)
 * (@stevenski)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-wp-ie-border-problems/)
 * I’ve managed to get my header image to look decent in IE and Firefox, but the
   dashed border I’m trying to put in between the header area and the narrowcolumn/
   sidebar areas extends outside of the page in IE. This, I’m afraid, is something
   incredibly simple that I’m overlooking, after fiddling with it for about a half
   hour, I’ve decided to turn to people who have done this before. 🙂
 * [http://www.stevenski.com](http://www.stevenski.com) <— right under the header
   image

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 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-wp-ie-border-problems/#post-218996)
 * Well, your site’s XHTML validates, but the only errors in your CSS are associated
   with your header. You have multiple styles for your header that have to be checked
   as they may be in conflict with each other. Some are in the `header.php` and 
   others are in your `style.css`. Cracking a lot of the same eggs together might
   be part of your trouble.
 * With these errors, it might fix the width issue, since you have it set in several
   places.
 *  Thread Starter [stevenski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenski/)
 * (@stevenski)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-wp-ie-border-problems/#post-219045)
 * As stupid as this might sound, expecially coming from someone who thinks he has
   a touch of web coding experiance, is it bad for WordPress to strip out the default
   style pieces? I mean, is there one place I should leave the header information
   and take from the other?
 *  Thread Starter [stevenski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenski/)
 * (@stevenski)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-wp-ie-border-problems/#post-219092)
 * Good news, the border problem is fixed, after stripping out the CSS info from
   the header file. The problem with IE now is the mysterious gap inbetween the 
   right edge of the page section and the header image. So far I can’t make both
   parties happy, Firefox loves me, IE doesn’t.
 *  Thread Starter [stevenski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenski/)
 * (@stevenski)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-wp-ie-border-problems/#post-219093)
 * Got it. I have to have my CSS set the headerimg to a size twenty one pixels larger
   than the page section, which I’d think would result in a section of the image
   protruding from the side in both IE and Firefox, but both seem to be fine with
   it. Fickle creatures.

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 * Last reply from: [stevenski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenski/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-wp-ie-border-problems/#post-219093)
 * Status: resolved

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