Thane Sherrington wrote:
> On this site: http://www.stuffbythane.com/Ronald/
> 
> I set the banner to be 225px high, which in IE looks fine, but in 
> Firefox is 10 px too long (and the top menu ends up overlapping.) 
> Clearly I'm misunderstanding something, but shouldn't setting a 
> height in PX work for both the same?

IE has its own box model in quirks mode, which incorporates
border-height in declared height.
Firefox and other browsers add border-height to declared height.

See: <http://www.w3.org/International/articles/serving-xhtml/#quirks>
...for how IE treats "boxes" depending on mode.


David Laakso wrote:

> It is an exercise in futility. Start with a clear head and a clean 
> sheet.

And I have to agree :-)

Neither source-code nor CSS is suited for the web as it is.

As an example on how to improve it somewhat...

<http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/ts/test_08_0924.html>
<http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/ts/test_08_0924_files/newpage0.css>

regards
        Georg
-- 
http://www.gunlaug.no
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