Posted by Andy Dingley on 12/05/06 13:37

melinama wrote:

> I'm a little afraid of y'all but hope you'll help me.

Of course! We _like_ people who post URLs to their sites before they
ask why they aren't working.

> http://caraycaray.blogspot.com - but in Internet Explorer the left
> sidebar is very wide.

No idea, haven't looked in detail.

Fix the doctype declaration first - i.e. start using one! Make sure
that it's one that puts IE into a standards rendering mode ( i.e. HTML
4.01 Strict). Without this, then CSS width behaviours under IE are
pretty much uncontrollable, so do that first and only then start
looking for the details.

I'd also suggest that it looks like there's a lot of pixel-based sizing
going on. This would be better if you used em units for dimensions
instead of pixels - that way it would cope better with text size
changes.

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