Hello...

Got a unique, strange problem that appears on older versions of IE and when cached pages are viewed from webcrawling engines (Google, etc.)

For some reason, the calendar tabs over into the content column - everything else looks okay. This doesn't occur in IE6.0, but does occur again in earlier versions.

Here is the live site:

Here is the live site

Here is an example of the strange formatting in cached google views

Any help would be appreciated, just want the site to be viewable properly to most folks...

I suspect you're looking at a quirks-mode problem: the Yahoo cache is some of the worst tag-soup imaginable, merrily mixing elements that should be in [head] and elements that should be in [body] without using either, before restarting with your page's doctype and [html] tag. It's a testament to the brilliance of browser developers that it can display at all.

For whatever reason, the cache puts IE in a mode where the font-size declaration on .calendar isn't getting honored: you can see the same effect in Firefox with the Edit CSS extension, just comment out the font-size: x-small. I remember some bug like that, involving IE and tables and CSS, but not the details. Do you have to put the class on the td, not (just) the span inside? Or put an inline style attribute on one or the other?

Sorry, can't remember. Crap like that is the reason I never do any designing.

FIXED.

Decided to be intrepid and risk screwing up the site by fixing it myself. Seems that the problem lies in the .css font-size - set at x-small, it carries over properly in IE6, but not earlier browsers. I changed it to an actually font size, 11px. Works - no more wierd table alignments. Mind you, there is an ever so slight alignment issue with everything on the side, I believe due to the padding of the calendar. But, it should look worlds better in the queue.

Fixed site should be

http://www.theartofpolitics.com

If anyone hits it and still sees wierd anomolies, please let me know. Proof will be when the webcrawlers hit next week...

Thanks for your help phil, it did get me thinking about fixing it myself. Neccessity being the mother of invention and all...