On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Climis, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > > However, in IE6 (haven't tried ealier versions), the right sidebar > (localsidebarpanel) is off in never land and its color is completely > wrong and can't be changed (weird!). I tested with IE 7 and 8 based on > output from http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ and the layout is even > worse, and still same color problem. > > ----- > > The color problem is a typo. Actually, a couple of them. First, your > conditional comment should read [if lte ie7] (no space). That's why the > ie style_sheet is being applied to ie8.
Doh!!! Thanks Tim, your comment made me remember: I forgot about that conditional CSS file!! Ack, someone hit me on the head! Most of what it had was from previous design attempt. Once I replaced its contents with one line (about width, see below), things are sane again, at least for IE6 and IE7 (IE8 not tested yet). Let's set aside IE8 for now: The last issue for IE6/7, if anyone takes a look at the page now, is that I had to decrease the width of the right sidebar by 15 (now the only thing left in the conditional CSS) compared to value used for FF and Chrome, presumably because of the padding vs how IE computes box widths, otherwise the sidebar doesn't fit within the containing div. This leaves a thin gray area at the far right. Not sure yet what the fix is. Or, if you know of a free CSS exploration tool *for IE* like the (awesome!) javascript console that comes with Chrome, I could try using such a tool to figure it out. Oliver ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
