Brilliant! That works a treat! Why is it always the screamingly obvious things one tends to miss? :-(
Thank you. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: hariharan k To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] lining up in different browsers Hi, Can you try by this, <div id="footer"> <span class="left"><a href="core/core.html"> main menu </a></span> <span class="right">web site Copyright © <a href="http://www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk" class="newwin" target="_blank" title="opens in new window"> Gwelanmor Internet 2009 </a> </span> </div> <style> #footer { border-top : 1px solid #aaa; font-size : 90%; height : 30px; padding : 5px 0px; } .right { float:right} .left { float:left} #footer span{} #footer a:link { color : #930; text-decoration : none;} #footer a:hover { color : #F00; background : #fff; text-decoration : underline;} </style> By, Hariharan On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:07 PM, designer <desig...@gwelanmor-internet.co.uk> wrote: I want to line up two links at either side of a horizontal bar. The html is as follows: <div id="footer"> <a href="core/core.html"> main menu </a> <span class="right">web site Copyright © <a href="http://www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk" class="newwin" target="_blank" title="opens in new window"> Gwelanmor Internet 2009 </a> </span> </div> (class="right" just floats it to the right, of course) and the css is: #footer { border-top : 1px solid #aaa; font-size : 90%; height : 30px; padding : 5px 0px; } #footer a:link { color : #930; text-decoration : none;} #footer a:hover { color : #F00; background : #fff; text-decoration : underline;} with an IE6 conditional comment: #footer span{position : relative; top : -15px;} However, whilst it solves the problem of alignment for IE, safari and Opera fail miserably. I cannot find a documented method of doing this, but I'm sure one of you wizards have done it already? Any help gratefully recd, as usual. Bob ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* -- Hariharan. K Web Designer ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************