Title: IE problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# IE problem

 *  [PaulaO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holyroller/)
 * (@holyroller)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ie-problem/)
 * Apparently there is a problem with IE and my website. I use the Classic theme
   which I modified for my own use.
 * With IE, the text in the posts start to slide to the left. The blockquote box
   remains in place altho its text slides too. Screenshots can be found here: [http://paulaoffutt.com/blog/ie-information/](http://paulaoffutt.com/blog/ie-information/)
 * That page is set up so that the sidebar does not appear.
 * I recently loaded up the site in the Gila theme, a theme I used before. In that
   one, the text slides over too, but not nearly as much.
 * I will gladly share my CSS file.
 * Any ideas how to fix this?

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 *  [schestowitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schestowitz/)
 * (@schestowitz)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ie-problem/#post-301128)
 * It seems to me as though you changed a great deal of the classic theme. You must
   have changed the horizontal positioning and /or width of elements in the body.
   Re-check these carefully.
 * Are you running Windows? There is no easy way of fixing this unless you run Internet
   Explorer and then modify the CSS to see the results. If the problem was associated
   with just a single element, that would be simpler. From what I can tell, based
   the screenshots, there are many visual inconsistencies. No single statement/change
   would do the trick and the ability to reproduce the errors by working on a local
   copy of your page is poor.
 * Then again, someone else might be able to invest much more time in this.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ie-problem/#post-301148)
 * Sch,
    if you don’t have an answer, don’t make up empty BS theories 🙂 This is
   a well known issue with a lot of themes in IE. It was posted several times and
   the solution is also in multiple places: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/31461#post-178263](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/31461#post-178263)
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/31557#post-178257](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/31557#post-178257)
   Briefly: add a border-bottom to your blockquote’s style.
 *  Thread Starter [PaulaO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holyroller/)
 * (@holyroller)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ie-problem/#post-301154)
 * Thanks Moshu! On the first link you provided, I found another link to another
   site that addressed this issue and several others. I added a bottom border to
   the blockquote and viola! It’s fixed.
 * And yeah, schestowitz, I modified the theme a lot. I thought at first it was 
   something I had done until I saw it was happening in other themes as well.
 * Oh, and Moshu, I considered doing a search but wasn’t sure what to search for.
   So thanks!
 *  [schestowitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schestowitz/)
 * (@schestowitz)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ie-problem/#post-301171)
 * moshu, you’re right in this case. I didn’t intend for it to be BS though. No 
   hard feelings, I hope. *smile*
 * holyroller, glad you got this sorted. I am very new to this forum, so I failed
   to spot a common issue. All the best.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ie-problem/#post-301171)
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