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[miraje]

Watch as steam rolls out of Heather's ears. Why can't all browsers follow the same rules? Is that too much to ask?

I'm building a webpage for the National Forecasting Contest here in my department. I realize that it looks like a mess at the moment. Bear with me. My problem is with the header and news thing at the top. Mozilla and anything Netscape-based displays it just fine. IE 5.x (Mac version), however, doesn't get the width right and has about a 3 pixel section of the table hanging outside of the main div. I don't know what other IE versions do to it, but I'd be willing to bet they have a similar problem. I've been messing with width attributes in both the CSS and the HTML for about two hours now, and I just cannot get IE to squeeze it all in. I've tried hacks, too. It does not want to cooperate with me.

Anyone else have a suggestion?


Please?

Comments

[mpettitt.livejournal.com]

Cat pointed me at this: it's a known bug in IE5 for Mac. Luckily, it is only for IE5 for Mac - IE6 works fine, and so does IE5 for Windows.
Frankly, for the number of people using IE5 for Mac (which is very buggy), you are best off letting it look less than perfect for that subset, rather than trying to get something that works in everything else as well as IE5 for Mac...

Not the ideal solution, I know, but the best one I've found...

[miraje.livejournal.com]

I was hoping that it was just a problem with the Mac version. Relatively few people that would use this site actually use IE5 for the Mac, so my main concern was whether the same thing occured in Windows.

Thank you very much!

[phu.livejournal.com]

Looks like it works in IE and Firebird... and thank you on behalf of the entire geek community for using CSS, we all love you eternally. ;)

Unfortunately, I can't read well enough to actually figure out what your question is right now, so after I get some sleep I'll try to remember to read this again. :D