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 Posted by Neredbojias on 08/10/07 17:10 
Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:02:44 
GMT Michael scribed:  
 
> Hi, 
>  
> I ran into this very odd problem today. 
> I have a content div, which is 60% wide with 20% on each side. In the 
> left 20% I want to float a menu. An example is at  
> http://dev.terrabulgaria.com/test.html 
> In FireFox 2.0 this works exactly as expected. Same in IE7, except for 
> a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom, which can be used to view just 
> some extra whitespace. But in IE6, there is a major problem. The 
> contents div is shown nicely in place, but the float is placed all the 
> way to the right, with a left margin of about 110%, though the width 
> seems to be correct. It seems to me, that IE6 thinks that a percent is 
> much more than it actually is. 
> I have a similar problem at http://dev.terrabulgaria.com/Over_Ons with 
> a right float which is placed inside the red bordered center div, 
> which I want to float in the right margin. 
>  
> I temporarily solved this by placing an extra stylesheet inside 
> <!--[if lte IE 6]> -- load ie6hacks.css <![endif]-->, where 
> ie6hacks.css basically overrides some margins with smaller values, but 
> clearly this is not really what I want. 
> Is this a bug in IE6, and can I solve this somehow without resorting 
> to conditional CSS and the like? 
 
A "sorta fix" would be to change margin-left:50% to padding-left:50%. 
 
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Neredbojias 
Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.
 
  
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