I would rather not change so I found code from demo site of this template which works properly in IE and if it can help you (
http://www.joomla-templatedemo.de/?temp ... und-j16-36)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de-de" lang="de-de" dir="ltr">
<head>
<base href="http://www.joomla-templatedemo.de/" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="generator" content="Joomla! - Open Source Content Management" />
<title>Home</title>
<link href="/index.php?format=feed&type=rss" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" />
<link href="/index.php?format=feed&type=atom" rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 1.0" />
<link href="http://www.joomla-templatedemo.de/index.php/component/search/?format=opensearch" rel="search" title="Suchen Joomla 2.5 Template Demo" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" />
<script src="/media/system/js/mootools-core.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/media/system/js/core.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/media/system/js/caption.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/media/system/js/mootools-more.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.addEvent('load', function() {
new JCaption('img.caption');
});
function keepAlive() { var myAjax = new Request({method: "get", url: "index.php"}).send();} window.addEvent("domready", function(){ keepAlive.periodical(840000); });
</script>
<!-- The following line loads the template CSS file located in the template folder. -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/templates/siteground-j16-36/css/template.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body id="page_bg">
<div id="header">
<div class="top-menu">
<div id="sgmenu">
<ul class="menu">
<li id="item-465"><a href="http://www.joomlaos.de" ><span>JoomlaOS</span></a></li><li id="item-466"><a href="http://www.joomla24.com" ><span>Joomla24</span></a></li><li id="item-467"><a href="http://www.joomlaportal.de" ><span>Joomlaportal</span></a></li><li id="item-468"><a href="http://www.joomlajobs.de" ><span>JoomlaJobs</span></a></li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="search">
<form action="/index.php" method="post">
<div class="search">
<label for="mod-search-searchword">Suchen...</label><input name="searchword" id="mod-search-searchword" maxlength="20" class="inputbox" type="text" size="20" value="Suchen..." onblur="if (this.value=='') this.value='Suchen...';" onfocus="if (this.value=='Suchen...') this.value='';" /> <input type="hidden" name="task" value="search" />
<input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_search" />
<input type="hidden" name="Itemid" value="435" />
</div>
</form>
</div>
<h1><a href="/">Joomla 2.5 Template Demo</a></h1>
</div>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content_m">
<div class="maincol">
<div class="leftcol">
<div class="innercol">
<div class="module_menu">
<div>
<div>
<div>
<h3>Main Menu</h3>
<ul class="menu">
<li id="item-435" class="current active"><a href="/" ><span>Home</span></a></li><li id="item-294"><a href="/index.php/site-map" ><span>Site Map</span></a></li><li id="item-238"><a href="/index.php/sample-sites" ><span>Sample Sites</span></a></li><li id="item-455"><a href="/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components" ><span>Example Pages</span></a></li><li id="item-469"><a href="/index.php/impressum" ><span>Impressum</span></a></li></ul> </div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="module">
<div>
<div>
<div>
<h3>Werbung</h3>
<div class="bannergroup">
<div class="banneritem">
<br />
<div align="center">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-7868248440917770";
/* 125x125, Erstellt 21.01.11 */
google_ad_slot = "9401744274";
google_ad_width = 125;
google_ad_height = 125;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
</div><br /> <div class="clr"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="module">
<div>
<div>
<div>
<h3>Login Form</h3>
<form action="/index.php" method="post" id="login-form" >
<fieldset class="userdata">
<p id="form-login-username">
<label for="modlgn-username">Benutzername</label>
<input id="modlgn-username" type="text" name="username" class="inputbox" size="18" />
</p>
<p id="form-login-password">
<label for="modlgn-passwd">Passwort</label>
<input id="modlgn-passwd" type="password" name="password" class="inputbox" size="18" />
</p>
<p id="form-login-remember">
<label for="modlgn-remember">Angemeldet bleiben</label>
<input id="modlgn-remember" type="checkbox" name="remember" class="inputbox" value="yes"/>
</p>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" class="button" value="Anmelden" />
<input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_users" />
<input type="hidden" name="task" value="user.login" />
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="aW5kZXgucGhwP0l0ZW1pZD00MzU=" />
<input type="hidden" name="c1c4b8357f3136268d40b3b2fc454e3a" value="1" /> </fieldset>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/users-component/password-reset">
Passwort vergessen?</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/users-component/username-reminder">
Benutzername vergessen?</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/users-component/registration-form">
Registrieren</a>
</li>
</ul>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="cont">
<div class="blog-featured">
<div class="items-leading">
<div class="leading-0">
<h2>
<a href="/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/content-component/article-category-list/24-joomla">
Joomla!</a>
</h2>
<p><img src="/images/icon-48-themes.png" border="0" style="float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" />Congratulations! You have a Joomla! site! Joomla! makes your site easy to build a website just the way you want it and keep it simple to update and maintain.</p>
<p>Joomla! is a flexible and powerful platform, whether you are building a small site for yourself or a huge site with hundreds of thousands of visitors. Joomla is open source, which means you can make it work just the way you want it to.</p>
<div class="item-separator"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="items-row cols-2 row-0">
<div class="item column-1">
<h2>
<a href="/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/content-component/article-category-list/8-beginners">
Beginners</a>
</h2>
<p><img src="/images/icon-48-user.png" border="0" style="float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" />If this is your first Joomla site or your first web site, you have come to the right place. Joomla will help you get your website up and running quickly and easily.</p>
<p>Start off using your site by logging in using the administrator account you created when you installed Joomla!.</p>
<p class="readmore">
<a href="/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/content-component/article-category-list/8-beginners">
Weiterlesen: Beginners</a>
</p>
<div class="item-separator"></div>
</div>
<div class="item column-2">
<h2>
<a href="/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/content-component/article-category-list/50-upgraders">
Upgraders</a>
</h2>
<p><img src="/images/icon-48-revert.png" border="0" style="float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" />If you are an experienced Joomla! 1.5 user, 1.6 will seem very familiar. There are new templates and improved user interfaces, but most functionality is the same. The biggest changes are improved access control (ACL) and nested categories.</p>
<p class="readmore">
<a href="/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/content-component/article-category-list/50-upgraders">
Weiterlesen: Upgraders</a>
</p>
<div class="item-separator"></div>
</div>
<span class="row-separator"></span>
</div>
<div class="items-row cols-2 row-1">
<div class="item column-1">
<h2>
<a href="/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/content-component/article-category-list/35-professionals">
Professionals</a>
</h2>
<p><img src="/images/icon-48-contacts.png" border="0" style="float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" />Joomla! 1.6 continues development of the Joomla Framework and CMS as a powerful and flexible way to bring your vision of the web to reality. With the administrator now fully MVC, the ability to control its look and the management of extensions is now complete.</p>
<p class="readmore">
<a href="/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/content-component/article-category-list/35-professionals">
Weiterlesen: Professionals</a>
</p>
<div class="item-separator"></div>
</div>
<div class="item column-2">
<h2>
<a href="/index.php/the-joomla-project">
The Project</a>
</h2>
<p><img src="/images/icon-48-groups.png" border="0" width="48" height="48" style="float: left; border: 0; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" />There are millions of users around the world and thousands of people who contribute to the Joomla! Project. They work in three main groups: the Production Working Group, the Community Working Group and Open Source Matters.</p>
<div class="item-separator"></div>
</div>
<span class="row-separator"></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="rightcol">
<div class="innercol">
<div class="module">
<div>
<div>
<div>
<h3>Advertising</h3>
<div class="bannergroup">
<div class="banneritem">
<br /><div align="center">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-7868248440917770";
/* 120x600, Erstellt 25.01.11 */
google_ad_slot = "9179331945";
google_ad_width = 120;
google_ad_height = 600;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
</div><br /> <div class="clr"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clr"></div>
<div id="footer">
<p style="text-align:center;"> Joomla 2.5 Template Demo, Powered by <a href="http://joomla.org/" class="sgfooter" target="_blank">Joomla!</a>
<!-- FOOTER BEGIN --><a href="http://www.siteground.com/joomla-templates.htm" target="_blank">Joomla template by SiteGround</a><!-- FOOTER END -->
</p>
</div>
<div class="clr"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
