It has to do with the way IE and Firefox treat the box model in quirks mode. There's some info about it here:
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html Also, if you remove the width:100% in the menu def, it will fill out correctly. On 1/12/06, Robert Everland III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone explain to me why this works in IE 6 and Opera but not in Firefox? > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > > <html> > <head> > <title>Untitled</title> > </head> > > > <style> > .container { > color: #000000; > font-family:tahoma, verdana, helvetica; > font-size: 11px; > background-color: #f1f1ed; > width:170px; > height: 100%; > border-right: buttonshadow 1px solid; > border-top: #f5f5f5 1px solid; > border-left: #f5f5f5 1px solid; > border-bottom: buttonshadow 1px solid; > padding-right : 1px; > padding-top : 1px; > padding-bottom : 1px; > } > ...leftMenu { > color:#006699; > text-decoration:none; > font-weight:bold; > } > ...leftMenu:hover { > color:#000000; > text-decoration:none; > font-weight:bold; > } > ...leftMenu:active { > color:#000000; > text-decoration:none; > font-weight:bold ; > } > ...Menu { > width: 100%; > height: 20px; > > padding:2px 5px 3px 2px; > border-right: buttonshadow 1px solid; > border-top: #f5f5f5 1px solid; > border-left: #f5f5f5 1px solid; > border-bottom: buttonshadow 1px solid; > > background-color: #D4D0C8; > cursor:hand; > color:#000000; > } > ...Option { > width: 100%; > height: 24px; > padding:2 5 3 16; > background-color: #f5f5f5; > border-top : 1px solid #ffffff; > border-bottom : 1px solid #ffffff; > border-left : 1px solid #ffffff; > border-right : 1px solid #ffffff; > cursor:hand; > } > ...Options {padding:1 1 1 1} > > ...imgPosition { > vertical-align: middle; > } > </style> > <body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0" > marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> > > > <div class="container"> > <div id="parent"> > <div class="menu"></div> > </div> > </div> > </body> > </html> > > > > Bob > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:229391 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54