Using IE5 as your default browser for development is going to give you
these headaches every time. Build to a Standards-compliant browser -
Firefox is probably best if you're on a Mac - and *then* use the hacks
you need for IE5, but only if you *really* need to. Good css shouldn't
require much/many - if any.
BTW, a couple of points about your markup:
- Use margins/padding in your css to control paragraph spacing; all
those br / tags are unnecessary.
- Your LH nav is a list of links - use a ul to mark it up. Again, you
can control vertical spacing between the links with your css - which is
much more flexible than locking the links into p tags.
See Russ Weakley's Listutorial
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listutorial/ for everything you ever
wanted to know about lists.
HTH
Nick
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On Saturday, Aug 7, 2004, at 02:38 Australia/Sydney, Barry Cranmer
wrote:
http://orderlyspaces.com/fri86.html orderlyspaces.com/fri86.css
The page displays as I would like it to in IE 5.2 on my Mac (G4
running OS X 10.2.8), but does not work properly in Safari, Firefox,
Opera or AOL's. browser on Mac.
The problem is that the content, beginning with the quote on the right
overlaps the header in every browser I have available but IE. Mozilla
on a PC yesterday had the same problem. (I don't have access to IE on
a PC and have no idea yet what THAT mess might look like.)
The quote and the top item of the menu pretty much line up
horizontally in IE (Mac) and that's how I hope to make it work
cross-platform and cross-browser.
I'm new to css and I'm probably missing something simple or doing
something completely backwards, but I'm stumped. I've tried using some
suggested hacks and they have helped me get to this point, but I'm not
sure I've got them right either.
I would appreciate any guidance anyone could offer.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Barry Cranmer
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