Title: Internet Explorer Theme Issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Internet Explorer Theme Issue

 *  [violentsleep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/violentsleep/)
 * (@violentsleep)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internet-explorer-theme-issue/)
 * I’m having trouble getting my wordpress theme to show correctly in Internet Explorer
   7. It looks fine in Chrome, Firefox and Opera and the problem only occurs in 
   IE7 (possibly other IE versions, I am as yet unsure).
 * Here is my blog: [ViolentSleep](http://blog.violentsleep.com)
 * Now, I have made heavy edits to the theme as it was originally a theme purchased
   for a non-wordpress website (which you can see [here](http://violentsleep.com)).
   If you look at the static site versus the blog version of the same theme, you’ll
   notice that the website appears properly in IE7. I will admit it’s a complex 
   theme, but I cannot find why it works in all other browsers but not IE. For comparison
   sake, I have the CSS for the website and blog both here.
 * Here is the CSS for the website:
    [huge chunk of code moderated] Feel free to
   ask for anything else you may need.

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internet-explorer-theme-issue/#post-1491485)
 * Don’t post huge chunks of code here. Use pastebin: [http://wordpress.pastebin.com](http://wordpress.pastebin.com)
 * You’ve got a garbage comment above your doctype in header.php `<!--header starts
   here-->` and that is throwing IE into quirks mode. Fix that and some other code
   errors first. [[Invalid]Markup Validation of blog.violentsleep.com – W3C Markup Validator](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A//blog.violentsleep.com/&doctype=Inline&ss=1&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator/1.654).
   Scroll down in the validation report to see line numbers and source code. You
   can ignore the unencoded ampersand errors as they don’t affect display.

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## Tags

 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [custom](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom/)
 * [Internet Explorer](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/internet-explorer/)
 * [xhtml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xhtml/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internet-explorer-theme-issue/#post-1491485)
 * Status: not resolved

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