Okay, so after two days of trying to fix the display discrepancies between Internet Explorer and the other browsers that are out there, I officially give up. As you might have noticed, I have changed the look of my blog yet again. I know, big surprise, right? This time I added code that I got from BloggerBuster.com to make the three columns the same height and length. I also got rid of the tabs that were at the top of my page and opted for a navigation bar with links to those pages instead. I used code for that change from Tips-for-New-Bloggers.blogspot.com.Everything looks just as it should in Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Google Chrome. The brown navigation bar sits flush against the top of the posts and sidebars. The three columns are even along the bottom. Wouldn't you know that the fact that everything looks perfect in four browsers means that it doesn't look perfect in what I guess is still the most commonly used browser, Internet Explorer? Sure enough, there is a big space (big to me anyway) between the brown bar and the sidebars and posts. In addition, the image links aren't flush with the brown bar; they're protruding downwards. Finally, the columns are not equal heights.
I tried for hours last night and hours today to get it to look right in IE. I've played with paddings and margins. I've looked to see how others have added the same things. I've messed around on test blogs. Nothing has worked. Thus, until the blog owners at Tips for New Bloggers and Blogger Busters approve my comments requesting assistance and respond to them, I and you, my readers, will just have to live with the way it looks in IE. As I've never liked IE to begin with--it freezes up several times a day for me and is uber-slow--I'd suggest that you use a different browser if you're at all interested in seeing how this blog is really supposed to look. Actually, I recommend switching browsers for web surfing in general. The only time I use IE these days is if I'm printing a coupon off of Coupon.com. For some reason, I can't get the coupon printer to work in Firefox.
Meanwhile, if any of you know how to fix the two display problems in IE, not to mention fix my layout editor in Blogger (I can no longer see the bottom elements in my sidebars since adding the equal column stuff without using some tab function I read about online), please me a comment telling me how. I'd greatly appreciate it.
