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Oh how I wish we could ignore IE6, but alas......

This test page, based on a template I downloaded from Layout Gala & modified, seems to work fine so far in FF and Safari, with the div "left" holding imagery resting along the left side of the page. But in IE6 there's a margin on the left. The CSS for the div has the margin-left set to -100%, which I guess is the problem.

http://www.permacultu...

Any suggestions for a fix?

Thank you!!!

Nancy

Never mind.....doing something else instead!

I looked at your code when you posted it, but had to go out of town for a couple of days, so didn't get my reply posted sooner.

Did you end up using a CSS solution? Even if you don't need this solution maybe it will help someone else...

You could pare the code back, cut out the two divs that were causing problems and try the code below. It works in IE 6.0 and Firefox. I didn't check in IE 7.0.

On another note: I noticed you set the height to 1000px. Was that to get the footer below the screen? I've used some scripts that always put the footer at the bottom of the screen if the text is short or at the bottom of the page if the text is longer.
Here's one example. http://www.strictlycs...
A google search will give you some alternate examples.

Kathleen ~~~


CSS Left and Right borders:

html,body{margin:0;padding:0; background-color:#E9DABC}
body{
font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif 11px;
background-image: url(TinyTile.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
background-position: left top;
}
#container {
background-image: url(TinyTileRev.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
background-position: right top;
margin: 0px;
width: 100%;
}
p{margin:0 10px 10px}
a{display:block;color: #981793;padding:10px}
div#header{height:130px; width: 100%;margin:0;
padding:10px; background-image:url(TinyHead.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:center;}
div#content p{line-height:1.1}
div#left{background:#E9DABC}
div#right{background:#E9DABC}
div#left_content {background-image:url(images/blend.jpg); background-repeat:repeat-y; float:left; width:152px; border: solid 1px; border-color:BF996C;}
div#footer{background: #333;color: #FFF}
div#footer p{margin:0;padding:5px 10px}
div#wrapper{
float:left;
padding-left: 53px;
padding-right: 53px;
height: 1000px;
}
div#content{margin: 0 200px; padding:5px;}
div#footer{clear:left;width:100%}


Page:

<div id="container">
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="left_content"> <p> This is the left content div.</p></div>

<div id="content">
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</div>
</div>
<div id="footer"><p>Here it goes the footer</p></div>

</div>