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Hi yet again,
first can I say a big load of thanks to everyone who's replyed to my posts
so far, I *think* this should be the last.

I've got the page looking practically perfect in FF but in IE the leftcell
div covers part of the maincontent div. I tried margin-left:-255px; and this
fixs it for IE but in FF the div disapears of the page.

So,
a) is there something i've missed with the posistioning of the leftcell div
?
or
b) is there someway of making FF ignore the margin-left selector in the
style sheet?

TIA

Paul

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"Paul Watt" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi yet again,
> first can I say a big load of thanks to everyone who's replyed to my posts
> so far, I *think* this should be the last.
>
> I've got the page looking practically perfect in FF but in IE the leftcell
> div covers part of the maincontent div. I tried margin-left:-255px; and
> this fixs it for IE but in FF the div disapears of the page.
>
> So,
> a) is there something i've missed with the posistioning of the leftcell
> div ?
> or
> b) is there someway of making FF ignore the margin-left selector in the
> style sheet?
>

Ooops forgot the URL: http://www.paulwatt.info/test/turn/ .
http://www.paulwatt.info/test/turn/css/turnlayout.css

And lo, Paul Watt didst speak in
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> "Paul Watt" wrote...
>
>> I've got the page looking practically perfect in FF but in IE the
>> leftcell
>> div covers part of the maincontent div. I tried margin-left:-255px; and
>> this fixs it for IE but in FF the div disapears of the page.
>>
>> So,
>> a) is there something i've missed with the posistioning of the leftcell
>> div ?
>> or
>> b) is there someway of making FF ignore the margin-left selector in the
>> style sheet?
>
> Ooops forgot the URL: http://www.paulwatt.info/test/turn/ .
> http://www.paulwatt.info/test/turn/css/turnlayout.css

Paul, this is not a FF problem, it's a MSIE problem, since it looks just
fine in Opera as well. If you must hack, hack it for MSIE, not FF.

Grey

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"Paul Watt" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi yet again,
> first can I say a big load of thanks to everyone who's replyed to my posts
> so far, I *think* this should be the last.
>
> I've got the page looking practically perfect in FF but in IE the leftcell
> div covers part of the maincontent div. I tried margin-left:-255px; and
> this fixs it for IE but in FF the div disapears of the page.
>
> So,
> a) is there something i've missed with the posistioning of the leftcell
> div ?
> or
> b) is there someway of making FF ignore the margin-left selector in the
> style sheet?

try floating the menu section to the left

"GreyWyvern" <> wrote in message
news...
> And lo, Paul Watt didst speak in
> alt.html,alt.http://www.webmaster,comp.infosystem...g.stylesheets:
>
>> "Paul Watt" wrote...
>>
>>> I've got the page looking practically perfect in FF but in IE the
>>> leftcell
>>> div covers part of the maincontent div. I tried margin-left:-255px; and
>>> this fixs it for IE but in FF the div disapears of the page.
>>>
>>> So,
>>> a) is there something i've missed with the posistioning of the leftcell
>>> div ?
>>> or
>>> b) is there someway of making FF ignore the margin-left selector in the
>>> style sheet?
>>
>> Ooops forgot the URL: http://www.paulwatt.info/test/turn/ .
>> http://www.paulwatt.info/test/turn/css/turnlayout.css
>
> Paul, this is not a FF problem, it's a MSIE problem, since it looks just
> fine in Opera as well. If you must hack, hack it for MSIE, not FF.
>
> Grey
>

Hi Grey,

Why cant everyone use firefox??
Is there a hack that will allow me have a statement in the stylesheet that
all other browsers will ignore and only be visible for MSIE? All I need is a
margin-left:-255px statement and all my worries will be gone.

cheers

Paul

And lo, Paul Watt didst speak in
alt.html,alt.http://www.webmaster,comp.infosystem...g.stylesheets:

> Hi Grey,
>
> Why cant everyone use firefox??

Because some of us use Opera

> Is there a hack that will allow me have a statement in the stylesheet
> that
> all other browsers will ignore and only be visible for MSIE? All I need
> is a
> margin-left:-255px statement and all my worries will be gone.

Look up "MSIE conditional comments" and serve MSIE an additional
stylesheet.

Grey

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Paul Watt wrote:

> I've got the page looking practically perfect in FF but in IE the leftcell
> div covers part of the maincontent div. I tried margin-left:-255px; and this
> fixs it for IE but in FF the div disapears of the page.

Sounds like something I've seen before. Try something like:

* HTML #maincontent { margin-left: -255px; }

It's a hack, and it won't work in IE 7. (But perhaps the big won't appear
in IE 7 anyway? One can but hope.)

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> Is there a hack that will allow me have a statement in the stylesheet that
> all other browsers will ignore and only be visible for MSIE? All I need is
> a margin-left:-255px statement and all my worries will be gone.

you can write rules like this:

* html .foo
{ margin-left:-255px;
}

IE is the only browser that thinks there is an element above html when it
looks at css rules, so you can use it for stuff you only want IE to use.

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"Toby Inkster" <> wrote in message
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> Paul Watt wrote:
>
>> I've got the page looking practically perfect in FF but in IE the
>> leftcell
>> div covers part of the maincontent div. I tried margin-left:-255px; and
>> this
>> fixs it for IE but in FF the div disapears of the page.
>
> Sounds like something I've seen before. Try something like:
>
> * HTML #maincontent { margin-left: -255px; }
>
> It's a hack, and it won't work in IE 7. (But perhaps the big won't appear
> in IE 7 anyway? One can but hope.)
>

Got it sorted. I used the "underscore" hack in the end. _margin-left:-255px;
did the trick

Thanks to all who helped!

Paul

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:51:30 +0100, Paul Watt wrote:

> So,
> a) is there something i've missed with the posistioning of the leftcell div
> ?
> or
> b) is there someway of making FF ignore the margin-left selector in the
> style sheet?

You already used your last question in an earlier post. Sorry.

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