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"CSS help anyone? Could be some div nuance"

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.

I'm a bit scared of using fieldsets and labels, what's their browser support like? No-one really cared about semantics in the golden days when I learned HTML. If you wanted whitespace between paragraphs, you just did

 

and were applauded for your mission-centric approach.

Coin wrote:
> Isn't JS Open Source, so you can't technically copyright it?

I'm pretty sure you can't copyright JavaScript code as such, though if you built an entire unique application from it with the intention of using it for your business, and others attepted to profit using that application, you may have more of a case that someone who claims a pop-up window is theirs.

Turbonutter wrote:
> I'm a bit scared of using fieldsets and labels, what's their browser
> support like?

Browser support isn't really an issue, as there isn't really anything to support with and (asside from a border and

which CSS can turn off). They are new to HTML and xHTML, but browsers should be designed to ignore tags they don't understand. If a browser comes across a tag that it doesn't support it, it'll just skip to the next tag and display the input.

But they can be great aids to browsers that do support them. One being that labelled elements are clickable to put the focus on the element they are linked to via the for attribute. While this may not seem like much of an advantage for text input elements, radio buttons are small, and giving the user a wider range to click on to select it can be a welcomed addition to any web site.

is designed to group larger forms into sections. While you may think this is easily done with HTML and CSS, non-visual browser can't make that distinction without the

tags.