Many thanks for this Georg. Your explanation is very good, and this 
fixes my problem.

Yasir
> Yasir Assam wrote:
>   
>> I have a phantom margin problem on IE6. You can see it here: 
>> http://endlessvoid.com/test_css/phantom_margin1.html
>>
>> The blue bar at the bottom doesn't go right up to the right edge on 
>> IE6 (running on W2K3 here) but it looks ok on FF and IE7.
>>     
>
> Add...
>
> body {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
>
> ...and the 16px "phantom margin" will be gone.
>
> - The reason is that IE6 can't position absolute relative to opposite
> sides, so IE6 ignores div#titlebar {right: 0;} completely.
>
> - With no established relation the div#titlebar defaults to being
> positioned relative to the html-element/browser-window. Same in all
> browsers.
>
> - Then IE6 expands div#titlebar in width to make div#thumbs fit inside,
> but the  div#thumbs takes its 100% width from _body_, which have 8px
> side-margins by default in IE.
>
> regards
>       Georg
>   

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