Posted by boclair on 10/15/05 05:14

news@celticbear.com wrote:

> My blog page: http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/ looks fine in Firefox
> and Opera, but in IE6, the main body block positions itself below the
> left menu bar.

IE doesn't handle boxes in the correct manner. This creates a problems
such as you see when side by side boxes are given fixed widths that can
exceed the width of the viewport.

You might consider something more fluid, for example by adapting a
layout such as that published by Lauri Raitilla at
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~laurirai/www/css/examples/float2col.html

Louise

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