Arggh, for some reason Internet Explorer isn’t showing the new theme the way I want, basically the sidebar disappears. There seems to be two problems I’m hitting, the actual disappearing sidebar has somthing to do with setting the “position” property to “absolute” and then trying to place the sidebar 10 px from the top and from the left.
The other problem is when I set the width for “.narrowcolumn” to “auto”, it extends past the right hand edge, obliterating the sidebar if I decide to place it there.

Interestingly after a little testing, it may be something with the Menu Add in I’m using. If I disable that, then the menu shows up okay (well, not quite, but that’s a different problem). Also noticed that if I reload the page in Explorer, the menu will sometimes show up on the reload.
I figured out the Add In problem when I tried moving the “get_sidebar()” code to be before I fetched all the posts. The menu showed up but the Add In wasn’t working, which clued me in that it might be the problem.

Addition testing though, still a problem, not the plugin after all. Seems to be really hit or miss on whether the menu will show up or not.
However, the Journalized theme uses something very similiar and it doesn’t crap out, and doing some testing with a very basic page like http://www.brentsbasement.com/test.php works okay. It has to be something in the way my main area for posting is set up.

However, even removing that plugin doesn’t completely solve the problem of setting “.narrowcolumn” to “auto”, even if I move the call to get_sidebar to be before the display of the posts, the sidebar still won’t get displayed when the column is too wide.

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