SID-00977: TopBar in v5 renders poorly in Internet Explorer

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.0	Perl version:	5.8.5
Category:	CategoryBrowser	Server OS:	RHEL 4, Kernel 2.6.9.89.0.16.ELsmp	Last update:	15 years ago

I upgraded a test server to v5 and it all works fine if I use Firefox. When i open it in Internet Explorer the "Account" menu is overwritten by something in the top bar. You can see it if you do a View Source of the page and you can see it rendered if you look at the page in print preview. Also, the 'Edit' and "Attach" buttons are clipped off on the bottom.

I played with the skin a little and I only managed to make the page completely unreadable. I had to recover the files from the original distribution.

v4.2 that we use now in 'production' has a similar problem with the left bar. WikiWebs that have long names bleed into the main content when using IE. The names wrap in Firefox.

Any thoughts? .... glenn

-- GlennStasse - 2010-09-23

Discussion and Answer

Known issue, TWikibug:Item6524. Upgrade to latest TopMenuSkin or apply patch at http://develop.twiki.org/trac/changeset/19355

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-09-23

KnownIssuesOfTWiki05x00 is now updated with this bug.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-09-23

For next time, how would I have found that answer for myself? I searched for "Internet Explorer" and some other things but never ran into a link to TWikibug or other links that would have gotten me to links noted in your answer.

-- GlennStasse - 2010-09-24

Yes, we missed updating the known issues page, which I did yesterday.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-09-24

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