Thanks to all for their suggestions regarding my issue. Georg, however DID solved the issue nicely - and without the need for IE CC's - with his explanation below.
His instruction about adding an empty comment to each of the two divs in quested eliminated the problem by 80%; when I completed his instruction by amending the .homePage height from 585px to 580px, the fix was complete. NOW, here's an interesting side note: I wondered why altering the .homePage class height to an even number (580px vs the original 585px) would complete the "fix". So I tried 586px - which also worked - where 587px did not. Things that make you go "hummmmm": so - I guess for some reason - IE not only doesn't like empty divs, it also doesn't care for odd numbered height declarations. Georg, thanks to you I still have a few hairs left. Your assistance was great! Cole -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] OT - but really need help Cole Kuryakin wrote: > http://www.x7m.us/_problems/problem.htm > Layout displays as per spec in FF, Netscape, Opera. But look at it in > IE and you'll see the y-repeated background in both the #nav_bar and > #content divs are increasing the height of the wrapper by about 3px. IE/win doesn't see "empty divs" as being empty, without "something else" inside those divs. Thus, IE will add 'line-height' to what it sees as a space. So, add a comment in there... <div id="nav_footer"><!-- --></div> <div id="content_footer"><!-- --></div> ...and even IE/win will get the message. Then, correct the height slightly, from... .homePage {height: 585px;} ...to... .homePage {height: 580px;} ...and it should work. Of course: fixed heights will easily make content overflow containers, if anyone ever apply font-resize at the User end. Not part of _this_ problem though. Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
