Posted by Troy Piggins on 03/01/06 23:11

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* josh wrote:
>> I am puzzled by this, although from what I have read I understand
>> different browsers render differently, but when I view my home page that
>> I am creating it looks fine in firefox (my browser of choice) but in IE
>> the left hand menu jumps to the middle of the screen.
>>
>> A sub-problem of the above is the search menu becomes a little wider and
>> out of line with the other menus when viewed in IE.
>>
>> A third issue I have is the icons I've used. They are .png files with
>> transparent backgrounds. In firefox the transparency is good, but in IE
>> it paints the background white. I think I read somewhere this is known
>> for IE, but not sure if I remembered that correctly. Should I make them
>> .gifs?
>>
>> Probably best to give a url at this point. Please be gentle, I am a bit
>> of a noob and this is my first ever web page (that I am serious about):
>>
>> http://members.iinet.net.au/~piggo/troy/index.php
>>
>> View it in firefox and that's what I want, view it in IE and you'll see
>> what I'm talking about.
>
> I think its because you don't give the sidebar a horizontal value.

I figured that, but I want the content to be 800px wide and centered on
the page. If I give the sidebar a horizontal value it behaves
differently to the rest of the divs as the window is resized.

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Troy Piggins
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