ok,if theres a god of css, i'll pray!

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" <paulioNOSPAM (AT) wattio (DOT) freeserve.co.uk> wrote

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
alt.html,alt.http://www.webmaster,comp.infosystem...style sheets:

"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" <paulioNOSPAM (AT) wattio (DOT) freeserve.co.uk> wrote

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" <spam (AT) greywyvern (DOT) com> wrote

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

"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...style sheets:

Hi Grey,

Why cant everyone use firefox??

Because some of us use Opera :P

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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pitfall corollary that nothing is ridiculous.
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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.

--
Jim

"Toby Inkster" <usenet200604 (AT) tobyinkster (DOT) co.uk> wrote

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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Jim Higson <jh (AT) 333 (DOT) org> wrote:

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.

Don't use hacks, use conditional stuff if this is an IE thing:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.asp

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