Kay, Many thanks for the thoughtful feedback. I knew I was missing something, but wasn't sure what. And thanks also for the advice on the divs.
Ward ---- Original Message ----- > There's a very good reason for that... Because you are using the xml prolog, > IE is being forced into "quirks" mode rendering, not standards compliance mode > - that is, you're making IE6 behave like IE5, with all of the buggy rendering. > A good explanation of that is at: > http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=RenderingMode > If there is *anything* at all, even a comment, before the doctype declaration, > IE6 will go into quirks mode. > > In actual fact, Mozilla is behaving correctly. I'm betting that if you remove > the xml prolog, IE will start breaking too. > > The reason why it's breaking is that you're setting the width of your > breadcrumbs div to be 600px, and then setting the padding to 3px, which gets > added to the declared width (making the div 606px wide, which is 4 pixels too > many for the 602px container). IE6 in quirks mode (and IE5) calculate the css > box model incorrectly by *including* padding and borders in the declared > width. Other browsers (and IE6 in standards rendering mode) *add* padding and > borders to the declared width. More info here: > http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/box-model.html > > Actually, I would probably simplify your layout a little and attack the > problem a different way, perhaps by removing the explicit widths on some of > the elements and applying the right hand blue stripe to a container element. > Your nav, top and texas divs are a little unnecessary as they only contain one > element each - rather than having the #nav div with an unordered list, try > losing the div and apply the id directly to the ul. > > I'm a little hungover right now, and the box model/quirks mode explanation > above has used up most of my brain glucose so please excuse my lack of a > better suggestion. Fix up the rendering mode issue and you'll be on the right > track. I hope this makes sense! > > K. > > -- > Kay Smoljak > http://developer.perthweb.com.au ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
