Cool Bill, Thanks! That gives me a possible sense of direction, which is what I was looking for. I'll let you know how it works out. (Worst case scenario -- as I mentioned to Chris in an off-list message -- is that I could dynamically rewrite the HEIGHT property value in IE6 using Javascript nested in a conditional IE comment. Not what I want to do, but it would be a solution -- of sorts.
...Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Brown > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:44 PM > To: Rob Emenecker > Cc: [email protected]; 'Chris Hardie' > Subject: Re: [css-d] site check -- IE6 problems > > > Last, I do know that the BOTTOM property is being honored, > where I'm > > not trying to stretch something to fill the viewport, because the > > footer is fixed to the bottom of the viewport as it should be. > > > Hi Rob, > > Nice site. I like the overall look and feel, now...onto your troubles. > > Your problem with this design begins with #page-bg-body which > does not have an explicit height setting. IE6 will honor top > OR bottom settings with absolute positioned boxes, but as > you're finding out, it does not calculate height when both > properties are set. > > This breaks your layout because the #body-contents box which > DOES have a height set explicitly in your style sheet cannot > calculate 100% of NULL, which is the value of the > #page-bg-body box. Thus in IE6, it defaults to visible overflow. > > In this case, you might want to try using CSS expressions to > feed IE6 a line of style that it could evaluate, thus > calculating the height it should be, minus your header and > footer (I didn't analyze these components very closely so > forgive me if the IDs are wrong). > > If you have trouble finding info on CSS expressions in IE or > with creating the expression code, let me know -- I should be > able to whip something up for you. > > Hope it helps! > Bill Brown > TheHolierGrail.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
