Posted by Paul Watt on 04/05/06 21:32

"Tony" <tony23@dslextreme.WHATISTHIS.com> wrote in message
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> Paul Watt wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Ok, I've solved most of the layout issues I was having with the template
>> I'm building and it looks ok in both IE and FF.
>> One thing remains though and its driving me nuts. I've got two divs's
>> displayed next too each other to make two cols, the left hand div set at
>> a width of 250px, the right hand div no width set.
>> In FF the right div starts at the edge of the left div and displays
>> correctly, however in IE the right div starts at the edge of the page
>> (although the text in the div starts at the edge of the left div).
>>
>> So If i set margin-left on the maincontent div to 255px in IE it sits
>> where I want, but in FF it sits 255px away from the left div which just
>> looks wrong.
>>
>> The URL is: http://www.paulwatt.info/test/turn/ .
>> and http://www.paulwatt.info/test/turn/css/turnlayout.css
>>
>
> .leftcell{
> margin-top:5px;
> width: 250px;
> position: absolute;
> }
>
> Look into FLOAT, and lose position:absolute

I tried Float but it wasnt working for me, so I had to resort to
position:absolute.

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