Without getting too detailed on what my be causing this, have you
tried a basic Holly Hack. Feed this to IE:
* html #maintext { height: 1%; }
If ever there was a magic cure for IE float problems, the Holly Hack
comes pretty close.
Oz Alfert
On 8/15/05, Mike Free <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> I posted this question on the 12th but have had no replies. I'm not
> sure if it's because my question is too dumb or too difficult to
> answer! Feedback in either direction would be much appreciated
> because I'm totally stuck! :-(
>
>
> here's my original question.
>
> I have come across a problem which I simply can't figure. Please take
> a look at this page in Safir/Firefox, then in IE . Note the large gap
> that appears in IE between the 'Online Quotes and service' section
> and the 'How we are paid' section.
>
> The html structure uses a series of divs for layout and is
> structuredlike this:
>
> <div id="content">
> <div id="subsection"></div>
> <div id="servicelinks"></div>
> <div id="newsfeed"></div>
> <div id="maintext"></div>
> </div>
>
> I have floated #subsection and #newsfeed to the right, set their
> width etc then left #servicelinks and #maintext positioned relatively.
> This give me precisely the layout I want in Firefox, Safari & Opera,
> but IE creates a huge gap on the page because it flows #maintext
> 'after' the end of #subsection!
>
> If you remove either #subsection or #newsfeed from the html, the
> layout is fine, but of course this is not an option.
>
> Here's the dummy page I'm working on to create the CSS:
>
> http://www.sammedia.com/pebbles/awb_css.htm
>
> The stylesheet:
> http://www.sammedia.com/pebbles/stylesheet.css
>
> If anyone can help here, I'd be very grateful, have been staring at a
> screen for a week now and am losing the will to live! ;-)
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike Free
>
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