I think this clears up a misconception for me. Like "absolute" I was considering floats to also be out of the document flow. Seems that was wrong thinking.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 1:38 AM -07:00 To: Mark Fellowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: CSS List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [css-d] Making a mess, navigation and footer weirdness. Small changes in source-code and CSS will make all browsers more cooperative... 1: Source-code: Move the end-tag for <div id="content1"> to a position just above <div id="linkcontainer">, so that <div id="content1"> becomes a container for _all_ floats on the right side. The reason for the "low" side nav is that a float can not / should not end up higher than the top of the element that precedes it in the source-code - which is content2. IE is wrongly letting the left nav pass 3 floats and end up alongside the top one - content1. By making the content1 container surround/include the other right-floats, all the standard-compliant browsers only see one right-float, content1, above the left nav, and will make the left nav line up with the top of it - exactly where you want it, I think. 2: CSS: #content2 { float: right; width: 520px; margin-top: 2%; clear: both /* use this value */; } #wrapper #linkcontainer { width: 200px; margin-left: 2%; float: left; display: inline /* add this */; } The 'clear: both' change on #content2 is just to make sure IE really clears the right-floats above content2, as IE otherwise may create some ugly overlapping. The 'display: inline' on #linkcontainer will "kill" the 'margin-doubling bug' in IE, which otherwise will make the 2% left margin render as 4%. > Also the footer doesn't seem to want to move. I'm not sure what you mean by that, so I can't advise a "fix". regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no __________________________________________ your personal webtop. @ http://www.goowy.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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/