Hi James, Because your main content div is absolutely-positioned, the footer ignores it. I would guess that either by removing the absolute on that which you wanted as the parent, or by possibly adding a relative position to the footer this would work. Give it a try, let me know. -- Kate
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Yates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <css-d@lists.css-discuss.org> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:56 PM Subject: [css-d] IE problem, floating inside an absolute > Hi, > > Am trying to float a footer in an absolute positioned maincontent div. > Problem in IE is when I apply width 100% to footer. Instead of being 100% > width of maincontent parent, it's much wider and extends maincontent off > the > screen. Is there a fix? Can someone point me in the right direction? > > Thanks, > James > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
