> 
> Sorry no answer to the problem... But your services div has a margin
> left of 197 and your splitter one has a margin left of 200. 
> The splitter
> seems to be pushing out as well in ie5.0, im not sure why that is.
> Probably the width of the feature or services div becomes 
> smaller in ie5
> and so its out of whack. 

That was the smoking ears problem I had, trying to make small changes to pixel values 
to get it to line up in different browsers.  I will take a look at the IE5 issue.

> 
> Also with regards to your box model hacks, if you haven't 
> used a left or
> right padding/margin, ie5 and 6 should read the width as the same non?
> So no need to use the hack? Or does ie5 put some stupid 2 
> pixel space in
> for some reason?

I think the hacks were in there from the layout-o-matic template.  I'm yet to try 
removing them.

> 
> How come you decided to use float and abosolute positioning? I would
> have thought to only use one or the other, not together. It is sitting
> within the main div already so would float: right take care of the
> positioning using a specific margin and width? Or does it break the
> layout?

When I first tried that method it worked ok but removing the float right broke the 
layout.  However it changed a fair bit after that so working backwards a bit may help 
solve the problem.

> 
> Site looks awesome btw, shadows are nicely done imo.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try them out :)

MT.

> 
> 
> Tim Hill
> Computer Associates
> Graphic Artist
> tel: +612 9937 0792
> fax: +612 9937 0546
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>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Miles Tillinger
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 March 2004 3:57 PM
> To: Web Standards Group (E-mail)
> Subject: [WSG] best method for columns inside a column
> 
> Finally a chance for my first attempt at a 100% CSS 
> positioning site and
> besides using the deprecated align parameter for an input:image, the
> site validates ok!
> 
> http://streetdaddy.gotdns.com/astute/index.html
> http://streetdaddy.gotdns.com/astute/main.css
> http://streetdaddy.gotdns.com/astute/astute.css
> 
> (sorry if the dyndns is borked, try 150.101.34.189 
> temporarily if it is)
> 
> Its a simple header > two-columns > footer layout based on a
> layout-o-matic template.  I then use absolute positioning to float the
> #feature div to the right of the #services div, however the 
> correct top
> & left values seem to differ between IE and Mozilla/Opera.
> 
> I've managed to get it basically perfect in IE6, but there is 
> small 2-3
> pixel discrepancy in Mozilla and Opera (haven't had a chance 
> to check on
> Safari yet *shudder*) down the left side of the right column.  I'm
> guessing that its to do with how I've made the columns inside a column
> layout, but I can't work out a better way to do it.
> 
> Is what I am trying to do not suited to CSS positioning?  Or 
> is there a
> better way to do it?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> MT
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