Josiah Sprague wrote: > The system which we are forced to use generates pages that declare > the doctype in quirksmode.
> The problem is that quirksmode in IE breaks my CSS. > Any ideas on how to work around in this situation? > http://www.uakron.edu/groups/asg/asgtemplate_copy.php When stuck in quirks mode: style for quirks mode. - for IE that means styling for IE5.5, with that version's limitations and bugs when it comes to CSS support. - non-IE browsers have full CSS support regardless of mode, so it's just a matter of tweaking them for the mode and avoiding disturbances from IE styles. You'll make it a lot easier for yourself if you avoid absolute positioning as much as possible - especially for large containers. The absolute positioned #container_box with 'overflow: auto' you've got now doesn't work well in any browser. The bottom nav scrolls on top of main content on narrow windows. IE in quirks mode becomes very unstable when it has to calculate in the extra scrollbar since #container_box is taken out of the flow, as can be seen in this slightly restyled copy of your page... <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/js/test_09_0409.html> regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
