Posted by Troy Piggins on 03/02/06 05:08

* Jim Moe wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that'll do. That's what I had originally (not the float though)
but I wanted to put the sidebar at the end, because I figured I'd be
updating content more than the menu and so wanted it closer to the
beginning of the file.

Never mind, I was probably getting too clever for myself.

>> 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>.

Yes, that fixed it. Thanks Jim.

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Troy Piggins
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