Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: >>Page: <http://www.beale-family.net/beta/monitoring-simple.htm> >>CSS: <http://www.beale-family.net/beta/css/layout-stripped.css> It seems like > you should be able to remove the top margin on #centrecontent, give it > 1px of top padding, then give .trail the appropriate amount of top > margin to push it down from the navigation bar.
I thought so too, but sadly not :-( - thank you for the suggestion, though, it was worth a shot. Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > It isn't obvious at all what's going on in there :-) > Had to make several attempts before cracking it. Glad it's not just me :-) Sometimes working with these sorts of things can make me feel SO stupid.... > Finally I added a clearing-element, and everything fell into place... > > </ul></div> > <br style="clear: both;" /> > <div class="left_menu"> > > Then I added 'padding-top: 1px;' to #centrecontent, and it worked as > expected because of the clearing-element. You can now adjust > 'margin-top' on #centrecontent, and get the same result in all browsers. That's fantastic - thank you so much! I think I need to read up a bit more on effective clearing. Thanks also to Donna for additional suggestion - I'm going with Georg's suggestion since it means I don't have to use a hack or CC to get round IE :-) Cheers, Rachael ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
