Sidebars sometimes go AWOL in Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer "About" page.

This page is not maximized, and the sidebar will appear if it is widened farther than this.

Similar to ubuntu.jpg, this is another screenshot that doesn't have the sidebars. The sidebars will appear if it is widened farther than this.

Here is a maximized screen, both sidebars are visible. (Normal)

This picture shows the beginning of a bug, though maximized, has no sidebars except the last boxes on the left sidebar at the bottom (Visible in bottomscreen.jpg)

Here we can see near the bottom, where the two sidebars appear. There are no sidebars above this point.

Thanks for your detailed report. I think mpt will be interested in looking at this.

Reproduced on bug 1.

I have this fixed for the bug page, but the various blue boxes with e-mail addresses in them (e.g. on the person page) are still causing trouble.

So like the article says, there are two ways to work around this bug: (1) using the IE-only "word-wrap: break-word" property plus ensuring no non-text element in a portlet is too wide, or (2) using "overflow: hidden" to chop off overflowing text. Option 2 would result in some text never being visible, so I've chosen option 1. But this will require constant vigilance to ensure wide non-text elements (like text fields) aren't used in narrow boxes.

Excellent! Thanks guys.

The sidebars on the front page still drop in Internet Explorer, with Medium font size, when the window is 539 pixels wide or narrower. The problem probably happens with wider windows when using Larger text size, but I can't tell because of a Wine bug. Bug 47781 hindered me from realizing this problem earlier.

(Actually, make that 606 pixels wide or narrower.)

This was fixed with the 1.0 page layout.