Posted by dorayme on 12/20/06 01:50

In article <45888eb0$0$17201$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
"Michael Bartos" <mvbart@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

> I have a web page in two versions of the same page. One uses absolute
> positioning and the other relative positioning.
> Both work very nicely in IE 6 but I'm having trouble with both in Firefox
> and Netscape 7. It's the same problem for each version,
> #container3, the main body of the web page doesn't "fit" correctly into its
> slot in Firefox and Netscape.
>

Nor in Safari...

>
> http://www.panamphoenix.com/index2b.htm
>
> and http://www.panamphoenix.com/index2c.htm

Which one uses absolute?

Use a validator and fix up the things it mentions, especially the
doc type.

I was able to fiddle with your dims to make it look "nice" in FF
over a small range of font-sizes but then it breaks. These
"fixed" size designs are quite brittle.

Don't use mm for dims on borders for web sites.

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dorayme

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