Posted by Jim Moe on 03/02/06 03:05

Troy Piggins 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.
>
I do not know why IE does this.
I can suggest a workaround, though. Remove the position:absolute from
#sidebar, add float:left, and place the sidebar div right after the
header. It does what you wish in both FF and IE6.

> 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.
>
Add a "size" attribute to limit the width of the <input>.

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