A few weeks ago, I posted a
solution to the Movable Type invisible comment listing issue. My solution involved modifying the comment entry form.
Garry (from A Day in the Life of a Middle Manager) added a little more information about this issue:
This is a problem with IE6 on windows. It doesn't happen with any other browser AFAIK and I've tried FireBird (my current fave), Opera and Safari on the Mac as well as IE on the mac which doesn't have the issue.
Essentially, it's a CSS bug and you have to add position:relative; to some of the style elements before IE will paint the text.
It is not very comforting that it only is an issue with IE, because this issue would effect 87% of my readership (if I had not dealt with it).
He was gracious enough to send me his modified template and the changes are minimal. All that is required is the following modification to line 99 in the comment listing template:
Original:
<div style="width:180px; padding-right:15px; margin-right:15px; float:left; text-align:left; border-right:1px dotted #bbb;">
Corrected:
<div style="width:180px; padding-right:15px; margin-right:15px; float:left; text-align:left; border-right:1px dotted #bbb; position:relative;">
The same change also needs to be made in line 160 of the Individual Entry Template. Please understand that these line numbers correspond to the MT Default templates. If your templates have been modified, then the line numbers may be different.
If you have this problem and are not comfortable modifying the template yourself, send me an email and I will assist if I have time.
UPDATE: At least one blog tried this solution and it did not solve the problem. I cannot guarantee that it was implemented correctly, but having never tried it myself - it may not actually do the trick. If not, you can always be drastic and use this method.
