View my Blog Here. Sometimes if you scroll all the way down go back to the top then scroll a bit down some text in the posts disappears and you have to hightlight the post to see the text. It only happens sometimes. It is hosted on netfirms !

That's a bug with IE6, you must be using that?

I have the same problem with my comments pop up box with IE 6.
Is there a temp fix for this IE 6 bug?

Yes I'm using IE6 but something should be done to stop that happening hence why I put it in Bug report. I mean most people who view my blog are using IE6 1

you'll have to change the css, the html, or both to get that fixed.

Yeah But what do I change ? Cos I've got the css file from Blogstyles and I had to get the Main index template from them as well since it was slightly different than the default 1.

But what do i change ?

Does IE have a problem with that specific font?
Does IE have a problem with the way the code is written?

Does anyone know what causes this bug so that we can work around it for the time being?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

DefenseEngineer: use a style other than Clean... or with Clean you should be able to remove this line from the .blog section of the stylesheet and it should take care of it:

background:#FFF;

bmk, removing the background: #FFF from the .blog worked perfectly.
Thanks for the help!

What about me ?? There was no #FFF in the .blog !!

I looked at your stylesheet as found here:
http://arvind2100.netfirms.com/blog/styles-site.css
I have no idea. I'm still not sure what the complete culprit is of this IE bug. I do see your problem as you described it though.

Hopefully someone else here can give you an answer. I can't simply because I'm an amatuer trying to learn as I go. Sorry, I wish I could be of some help.

DefenseEngineer

I'm not certain if it applies here, but I recently came across a CSS hack that may be helpful.

Fixing the scrolling DIV display bug in IE6

ks for that cedar. Everyone go to http://arvind2100.netfirms.com/blog/ and see whether any posts start 2 disappear !! Plz post here again if they do !

Oh god its still happening, and more

I would check the site's CSS with the W3C CSS Validator and the HTML of your produced page (not template!) with their HTML Validator. Since these guys set the standards, your code should adhere to the validations, which work pretty smoothly.

I'm assuming that if there are IE6 bugs that deviate from the HTML 4.x doctype standard, that these issues would be on Microsoft's support area (maybe).

You'll want to let them look at your style sheet template as well (you may have to make it into a standalone file for their purposes - copy/paste the code out of your template editor and save as a .css file).

Also, I had a lot of trouble tracking all the myriad nested div's in some of these templates, and noticed that I had left some unclosed. The validators can pick that up as well.

Just wanted to contribute something that I came across just now while surfing the net. In this page, it says that if you don't set the backgroup specifically to white (background:#FFF) Macintosh's Netscape will render it gray.

Since I had the same dissapearing text problem I think maybe I'll use a combination of tables and CSS for the layout which should solve the problem.

I tried the css validator thing and it gave me a bunch of errors and at the bottom o fthe page it says valid css info so i copied that and put it into my stylesheet template. Then I did the HTML validate and it gave me a bunch of error all to do with my tags e.g. where I wanted blod text and it was This is bold it gave me errors for the opening and closing tags !?!

I'm guessing that you are using xhtml coding in you webpage and that's why it didn't validate properly when using bold tags so you should use instead. Also, keep in mind that all your tags should be in small letters only.

so what are the other codes for like bold, underlined, italics etc. and do i hafta change them everywhere and only then will it validate properly ?

Here, An Easy Introduction to XHTML and this one A Slacker's Guide to XHTML (rules). They should give you a basic understanding regarding XHTML. For more information just fire up goodle and enter "xhtml tutorials" or something along the lines. And don't forget that coffee!

So this problem is finally fixed. I went back to BlogStyles, and just in case copied the correspoding stylesheet code over. It seems that they updated that CSS because now there is no disappearing text, and some minor changes. Thank you everyone for you help.

And Wow this topic was hot !!!