Title: Theme corruption?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Theme corruption?

 *  Resolved [working-together](https://wordpress.org/support/users/working-together/)
 * (@working-together)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-corruption/)
 * Something odd is going on.
 * I work on styling of themes on my local xampp installation, then when done styling
   etc. I load to the live server.
 * Recently I downloaded the theme from the live server (via Filezilla) to another
   computer so that I could work on it locally (via a different local installation
   I set-up on another computer).
 * The theme looks fine in Firefox, but in IE it looks totally messed-up. All the
   Divs are pushed down etc.
 * I’ve downloaded the theme multiple times from the server and it is the same.
 * I’ve done this before and it was fine, when I needed to work on a theme from 
   a different computer and local installation. Not sure what is happening here.
 * Any idea what is happening here?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-corruption/#post-2503476)
 * Have you tried validating the theme’s markup & CSS?
 *  Thread Starter [working-together](https://wordpress.org/support/users/working-together/)
 * (@working-together)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-corruption/#post-2503489)
 * Yes.
 * It is worth noting that I have a local install of the theme at home that looks
   fine. When I make dev changes I upload the new stylesheet etc. to the server.
 * The weirdness happens if I download the theme from the server and try to use 
   it on a new local installation.
 * If I transfer the theme from my man local install (which should be the same as
   the one on the server) on a USB stick and then transfer it to a new computer 
   with a xampp installation it works fine.
 * Something seems to be happening when I try to download the theme from Filezilla.
   It’s strange to me.
 *  Thread Starter [working-together](https://wordpress.org/support/users/working-together/)
 * (@working-together)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-corruption/#post-2503549)
 * Ah. I got it. It looks like the commenting on the top of the header.php was screwy
   so it was pulling into the top before the doctype and messing stuff up.
 * Interesting that the screwiness only showed up as it did.

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