Posted by Jim Moe on 09/27/07 18:33

ishky1@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> First, use HTML 4.01 Strict for your DTD (doctype), and validate your
>> code. Otherwise you will have more of these kinds of problems.
>> The padding is in addition to the given width. The easiest way to allow
>> for this is to use % for the padding and verify the total div width plus
>> padding is 50%.
>>
> I tried your suggestion and got it to work in Firefox. But in IE the
> two columns take up less than 100%. I guess that forces me to choose
> from the least ugly fix.
>
Are you using the Strict doctype? That is very important for
cross-browser display uniformity. And validated code.
Without an URL to a test case there is little else to suggest.

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