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Tue 19/10/04 at 01:18
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Hey there. I have a problem with some CSS on: [URL]http://www.sine-wave.net/deleteme/signup.php[/URL].

If you look at it in Firefox/Moz/Decent browsers you get a great thumbs up, but in IE it's a massive thumbs down. The menu on the right is a div and the main text is also a div. When I remove absolute positioning on the main div it seems to work fine, so I think the nested divs or left-most div is causing some problems. Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks!

IE be damned! Even my phone renders it properly heh.

EDIT: Those inputs look like they're aligned right, they're not, it's a coincidence. The label span seems to be sized 50% between the #main div, and formw span seems to be sized 50% from the whole page.
Tue 19/10/04 at 01:18
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Hey there. I have a problem with some CSS on: [URL]http://www.sine-wave.net/deleteme/signup.php[/URL].

If you look at it in Firefox/Moz/Decent browsers you get a great thumbs up, but in IE it's a massive thumbs down. The menu on the right is a div and the main text is also a div. When I remove absolute positioning on the main div it seems to work fine, so I think the nested divs or left-most div is causing some problems. Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks!

IE be damned! Even my phone renders it properly heh.

EDIT: Those inputs look like they're aligned right, they're not, it's a coincidence. The label span seems to be sized 50% between the #main div, and formw span seems to be sized 50% from the whole page.
Tue 19/10/04 at 10:49
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I don't understand your problem exactly.

But are you having trouble with IE rendering the page with a lot of padding around the input area or something?
Tue 19/10/04 at 11:18
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Why not have them in a span with the ID value instead, as IE often renders DIVs so that there is a
between them.

Worth a try...
Tue 19/10/04 at 12:24
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Coin wrote:
> Why not have them in a span with the ID value instead, as IE often
> renders DIVs so that there is a
between them.

All browsers should do this by default, as
's are block level elements (unless I've misunderstood what you ment).
Tue 19/10/04 at 13:32
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No, ya got me.

It's just I've had similiar problems with IE, and fixed it via ... I think it may be something about the positional attribute...
Tue 19/10/04 at 19:00
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Rob

search google for "IE box model hack"

also look at styling forms @ A List Apart

Haven't looked into it in great detail, but may have something to do with IE's cr@p approach to inheritance and the nee for pseudo classes. CSS uses a points system to give importance to styling for example:

p.blue

is less than

#div p.blue

which is less than

#div p.blue !important

I'll have a proper look later at it.
Tue 19/10/04 at 23:01
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Alan the form styling is ripped straight from ALA. I've found it works with pixel values for the width and the height, but not percentages.

I'll do that google now. Cheers man.
Tue 19/10/04 at 23:09
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This just highlights the inescapable fact, that if you want it to look the same in every major browser, you just use tables :-)
Tue 19/10/04 at 23:13
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Don't say that!

It's making me cry...
Wed 20/10/04 at 21:00
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Becuase it's true? :-)

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