Title: Why?  Help!
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Why? Help!

 *  Resolved [sugaredharpy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sugaredharpy/)
 * (@sugaredharpy)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-help/)
 * I feel like once I fix one problem, I get eight more.
 * I THOUGHT I had fixed a sidebar issue in IE, but it’s still recurring on certain
   pages. So no problem here ([About](http://peneloperoom.com/?page_id=3)), but 
   the sidebar still drops here ([Finds](http://peneloperoom.com/?page_id=26)).
 * And? And, in Firefox most pages look fine and the container background is fine.
   Except on permalink pages, like this one: [Pressing the Faires](http://peneloperoom.com/?p=42).
 * Any suggestions? What on earth am I doing to myself here?

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 *  [jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/)
 * (@jwurster)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-help/#post-391822)
 * There are definitely css validation errors. Perhaps if you look into these, you
   will fix your problems. I don’t see anything wron with the Pressing the Faires
   page in FF.
 *  Thread Starter [sugaredharpy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sugaredharpy/)
 * (@sugaredharpy)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-help/#post-391839)
 * I’ve gone through what seemed to be relevant validation errors and none of them
   fixed the problem. I ended up deleting the index.php, single.php, and the sidebar
   and re-uploading them all over again.
 * I think it may have been a link to Technorati that was messing it up, although
   I am soooo not sure.
 * Of the validation errors left, are any of those necessary to fix?
 * Thank you so much!
 *  [Christopher J. Hradil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chradil/)
 * (@chradil)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-help/#post-391874)
 * when working on sites like this, I like to get everything in terms of html/xhtml
   and css clean and valid, this way when I need to make changes, enhancements, 
   etc, I know that my basic code is valid, thus ruling that out as an issue, and
   eliminating _most_ cross browser relates problems automatically.
 * if you really want to clean up your theme/site, here are a couple of links to
   get you started –
 * [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpeneloperoom.com%2F](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpeneloperoom.com%2F)
 * and for the css, here’s a report on that as well –
    [http://www.hradil.us/sandbox/penelope.html](http://www.hradil.us/sandbox/penelope.html)
 * to get the most out of your css, I have found that using the “long hand” method
   of coding, and using “standards compliant” methods, you can accomplish all of
   the same things, and avoid most of the problems.
 *  [Christopher J. Hradil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chradil/)
 * (@chradil)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-help/#post-391875)
 * one other thing, i almost forgot, check your style sheet, it looks like your 
   last declaration (a img i think) was missing the closing bracket, so I couldn’t
   even run the style check at first. a missing bracket could have unpredictible
   results in almost any browser.
 *  Thread Starter [sugaredharpy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sugaredharpy/)
 * (@sugaredharpy)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-help/#post-391915)
 * Chradil, that missing bracket helped a lot. I didn’t realize it was missing.
 * The site looks a thousand times better in IE and Firefox, I’ll be working on 
   cleaning up the code even more. Your comments about being able to rule the code
   out as a problem makes a lot of sense. I’m not excited about doing it longhand
   all the time, but I’d rather have it look normal than the way it was.
 * Thank you so much for your keen eye and for the links!

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