diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1d6340eb4..5aef394ac 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ $Source$
 
 2005-08-12 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * header.inc.php: remove the 'InnoDB free' segment from table comments
+    * footer.inc.php: bug #1257106, display problem in the left frame (IE)
 
 2005-08-11 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * queryframe.php: shorten the path of db subtree items,
diff --git a/footer.inc.php b/footer.inc.php
index b0e764793..d2de583d1 100644
--- a/footer.inc.php
+++ b/footer.inc.php
@@ -24,10 +24,12 @@ if ($cfg['QueryFrame'] && $cfg['QueryFrameJS']) {
         $tables              = PMA_DBI_try_query('SHOW TABLES FROM ' . PMA_backquote($db) . ';', NULL, PMA_DBI_QUERY_STORE);
         $num_tables          = ($tables) ? @PMA_DBI_num_rows($tables) : 0;
         $common_url_query    = PMA_generate_common_url($db);
+        // if we put a space before the left bracket, it causes a display
+        // problem in IE
         if ($num_tables) {
-            $num_tables_disp = ' (' . $num_tables . ')';
+            $num_tables_disp = '(' . $num_tables . ')';
         } else {
-            $num_tables_disp = ' (-)';
+            $num_tables_disp = '(-)';
         }
     ?>
     var forceQueryFrameReload = false;