Sandy wrote re: http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/contact.shtml >>> instead that whole area is showing up with a white background in >>> AOL 9.1, ie6 and ie7. ie8 is ok. >>> >>> the styles are here >>> http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/css/mcb2009.css >>> [...] > > Now - your advice did get that white background out of the top of the > page, but it made the white background in the content area > disappear, too. > > This is really mysterious to me - the .container div starts below the > navigation, and was somehow covering the navigation ... take a look > here, where I have made it yellow with a red outline > http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/test.shtml > > I tried giving the container its white background back and a > margin-top of 300px, and then the whole top nav moved down that much, > as if the container started at the top of the page, instead of after > the navigation. > Sorry about the delayed reply, Sandy. It looks like you have solved the stated problem, and the test.shtml page seems to have vanished.
One problem remains, as far as I can see - that's the white border on the #globalnav. I think that is due to the border: transparent ... on the 'a' selector. IE 6 does not understand this. I suggest using the color code instead. Cordially, David -- ______________________________________________________________________ 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/