Wordpress Theme centered on FF but not on IE

[renet]

I have a thread on this topic at: [webmasterworld.com...]

waiting for replies on it.

I am beginning to wonder if wordpress themes are more troublesome to be cross browser compatible than a standard html website. Any ideas?

i.e.: we have had to customize the theme and it looks great in ff but it pushes to the right of screen on IE6 and IE7 thus dropping some text off the edge of the screen.

[ergophobe]

No, there's no reason per se that a WP theme should be any harder than straight HTML since, ultimately, as far as the browser is concerned, it is straight HTML. So no real difference there, except that a given theme may be poorly or well-written.

I would normally guess that it's a question of standards/quirks mode [webmasterworld.com], but I see you've declared a DOCTYPE.

I guess I'd start with all the normal debugging techniques: simplify and simplify until you get it to work so you'll know which rule or element is causing the problem.