Thanks Gunlaug!
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
> Tom Lancaster wrote:
>> I'm having problems with the following page in IE6:
>> http://www.newhanoian.com/new_details.php/venueid/2
>
> I'm really surprised :-)
> IE6 is such a nice bugger ...err... browser ;-)
>
>> Firstly, the whole page is slightly left of center ( it's supposed to
>> be centered ). This applies to whatever content the template has.
>
> IE is auto-expanding the centered body - creating a wide space on the
> right side, but I didn't look around for what causes it.
>
> You may add...
>
> * html body {overflow-x: hidden;}
>
> ...to fix it. The 'IE-only' hack is to avoid "killing" the horizontal
> scroll-bar in other browsers - like Firefox.
>
I added that, and was once-again-centered.
> You should of course try to find the real cause, as something is pushing
> body-width in that page. Other browsers won't expand beyond declared
> width, but the pushing element (or whatever) may have an effect on them
> too (although I can't see any).
>
I have already had and dealt with content overflow, using :hidden for FF
and word-wrap:breakword for IE, but as everything is wrapping nicely or
disappearing I can't see where overflow would come from either.
>> Secondly, the content in the middle column starts way down the page.
>> This only seems to happen with this bar. Others:
>
> Not sure what causes that either, but the following "fix" worked locally.
>
> Add...
>
> #outerColumnContainer {padding: 1px;}
>
> ...and see if that helps without any negative effects on the live pages.
>
Seems to work a dream. What made you think of that solution?
I'm very grateful for your help with this, and inspired to try and
figure out why these solutions work.
Tom
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