Hello All, Thank you for your responses Ist off Thanks Christian Heilmann I've applied your changes to test2 and now opera, netscape and Firefox all look good and identical, but if you now look at it with ie6 you will see why I made %%left%% position: absolute.
I think David Laakso has a sound idea to "code to good browsers, and hack IE" So now (before I try floats 'Thanks Gunlaug') If I push ie6 off to the side and start with Christians solution which works in just about everything else, I am now left with the problem of how to hack ie6 (a lot of people use it). I'ts clearly obvious to me now not to learn css using ie, its just going to give me all the wrong ideas. One thought is to put the %%left%% div in the document head, detect which browser I am in and select absolute or relative accordingly. This might be possible using Javascript but could there be a simpler way? I will of course look into using floats but want to stick with it and hak ie6 without breaking the other browsers. any ideas will be most welcome. Thanks again for the help. this is knocking so much time off the learning curve for me. peter ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
