Title: Header problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Header problem

 *  [erika_conn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erika_conn/)
 * (@erika_conn)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-problem-5/)
 * The front page header looks different in Firefox than IE. I want it to look like
   IE. To be specific Events, Become a Member etc. The bottom of the letters seem
   to be cut off. Now look at IE and they are perfect. What can I do to correct 
   the view in FF?
 * [http://www.tapc.ca](http://www.tapc.ca)

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-problem-5/#post-1234341)
 * You’ve got a bunch of [validation errors](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftapc.ca%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0),
   some of which will cause display problems among different browsers, like missing
   closing tags.
 * Did you edit your theme? And/or is your theme XHTML compliant to begin with?
 *  Thread Starter [erika_conn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erika_conn/)
 * (@erika_conn)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-problem-5/#post-1234512)
 * I can’t imagine what I did. It’s the same template as for [http://ceconn.com](http://ceconn.com)
   and that site looks perfect. I don’t even know where to look or what corrections
   to make. Would it be in the editing section? I’m sorry but coding intimidates
   me. Besides, this coding is all done automatically, isn’t it? I mean, I don’t
   know coding in php.
 *  [mechx1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mechx1/)
 * (@mechx1)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-problem-5/#post-1234519)
 * The problem appears in IE7 also, are you using IE6?
 * It appears that an HTML has crept into this theme. If you downloaded a new copy
   of the theme to build the tapc site, and did not change any code, then you might
   want to check with the theme author and see if it has been fixed, then you can
   just get another copy of the theme.
 * The generated HTML shows that the menu DIV is declared twice, and there appears
   to be an extra unordered list opening (ul). Most browsers probably apply the 
   10px of top padding for menu twice, which may be why the nav bar is pushed down.
   The problem should be in a file called header.php in your theme. Without seeing
   that code it is hard to guess at what to do, but if you know HTML you may be 
   able to fix it.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-problem-5/#post-1234541)
 * ceconn.com doesn’t validate, either, but obviously they’re not as serious of 
   bugs. You’ve got 96 errors of missing closing tags, etc. It’s a mess. Look through
   the errors and find where you need to close tags in index.php. Lots of times 
   when you fix one error, others go away. In order to get good display in all browsers,
   the first thing to do is get as close to valid code as possible.

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 * [Coding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/coding/)
 * [Firefox](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/firefox/)
 * [ie](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ie/)
 * [validation errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation-errors/)

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 * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-problem-5/#post-1234541)
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