IE6 bugs

[philjohns]

Ok, as some of you may know, Im redesigning my website. Im happy with it so far (now atleast) but just viewd it in IE6 and the divs are positio wrong prosumably becuase of the floats??

Any ideas how to fix the problem?

Phil Johns Imaging - Plymouth Graphic and Webdsite Design

Thanks, Phil

[b3rg]

Looks fine in IE 7 sorry, dont have 6. Im beginning to see why so many people dislike Internet explorer. having problems myself.


Maybe you can help me in the mean time.


ok so this would be the html.

and then the css.

 .divy {
position:absolute;
width:100%;
height:100%;
top:0px;
left:0px;
backgroundcolor:ff0000;}

This works perfectly in firefox. It takes up the whole screen in min/max and all sizes in between. but in internet explorer its like it cant recognize the width:100%; and height:100%;


I cant figure it out and quite bummed from internet explorer constantly destroying my dreams. help?

[Toon]

reset your margins?

[philjohns]

Who is that aimed at Toon - if me . . . how?

[philjohns]

Anymore help anyone?

[Toon]

Most web-developers know that IE has fallen behind in the race for standards and being able to show the latest and greatest. Many CSS2 properties are unsupported. Some of the more useful ones, are properties such as max-width, max-height, min-width and finally min-height. I will argue, how max-width is a crucial property, when it comes to on line readability, and then I will show you how to make IE emulate the behavior of max-width, and in turn, how to make it emulate many other properties that Internet Explorer for Windows is not directly capable of.

svendtofte.com - max-width in Internet Explorer

[philjohns]

Thanks toon

How come your website appears fine in IE6 and below and mine doesnt . . . is it becuase you havent used the float tag??

[Toon]

Mine are all absolute positioned and not really the correct way to make layouts work

[philjohns]

fair enough . . . . I cant still cant work out why the floats dont work in IE6 - or find a fix . . . ;)

[philjohns]

Fixed it, I spent a while searching through various google resources and came accross this:

Bizarre Internet Explorer 6 Float Behavior

Basically, I took 5px off the width of my right hand column and it seems to work fine - however I wouldnt mind if a few people could test it if they are still using IE and let me know how it looks.

Bare in mind Im just sorting out the logo as its a transparent .png file and IE also doesnt seem to like this either....Im off to google again!

I just thought I'd post this for anyone else having similiar problems.