Question

I've installed the latest TWiki (4.1.2) package on a Solaris box and everything's fine except that IE7 does not show the lefthand sidebar at all. It's fine in IE6 and FireFox however.

The strange thing is that TWiki.org uses PatternSkin as well and the sidebar shows up fine there. A quick look at the page using FireFox's ShowFormattedSource plugin shows that TWiki.org isn't so different from my installation so I'm hoping it's an easy problem to solve. Unfortunately I have no idea how to proceed.

A google search shows that there seems to be some problem with IE7 left-floating blocks but I don't know what I'd need to do where to solve this.

I'm willing to provide whatever info is relevant and use any FireFox addons that would help to diagnose/fix the problem but I'm at a loss at the moment.

Thanks for any help! -Dave

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-- DavidSheridan - 19 Apr 2007

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I did test pattern skin on IE 7 and things worked fine then. Pattern skin on twiki.org is slightly older than the latest release. Could you check Bugs web (that runs the latest code) to see if you experience your problem there?

-- ArthurClemens - 19 Apr 2007

Strange - that also looks fine. I haven't changed anything in the Pattern skin files so I can't think what the difference between my site and the bugs web is.

-- DavidSheridan - 19 Apr 2007

Do you see the css files? If you look in the html source and paste the url for layout.css or style.css, do they load correctly?

-- ArthurClemens - 19 Apr 2007

Yes, both of those download ok. IE7 annoyingly won't just display them as text but it does send them to a css editor that seems happy with them.

-- DavidSheridan - 19 Apr 2007

I do not see any problem with my 4.1.2 and IE7 either.

See http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/WebHome

Dave is yours public?

-- KennethLavrsen - 19 Apr 2007

Nope, it's only on my company intranet and there's zero chance of having anything available for public testing.

I can confirm that the lavrsen.dk site renders fine on my IE7 too. I'll see if I can set up a new TWiki structure in a different directory and go from the start again. Maybe something in my configuration has caused this and a totally new install will hopefully confirm this.

-- DavidSheridan - 19 Apr 2007

Right, managed to track it down today. I'd installed the StylePlugin and this apparently breaks things. I'll change the details in this form to reflect this information but is that enough for the StylePlugin support guys to be notified and help?

-- DavidSheridan - 20 Apr 2007

Usually it is enough to report issues in the StylePluginDev topic. If it is an outdated plugin you might want to send an e-mail to the author.

-- PeterThoeny - 20 Apr 2007