thank you ingo! the zoom: 1 declaration seemed to fix it completely. where did that come from? i will look up layouted boxes and see what i find... anyway, if you want to see the before and after versions, i have included links to examples below. the home_fixed contains the zoom: 1 declaration inside the style tag in the head at the top of the page. before: http://www.hinchliff.us/articles/home.htm after: http://www.hinchliff.us/articles/home_fixed.htm On 5/5/05, Ingo Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > cody h schrieb: > > i am having a really hard time figuring out this bug... ... > > so i have a container with a left margin, inside which all my page > content > > lives. i want to have images with captions directly below them floating > to > > the right inside the page container, but when i do this the whole layout > > blows up in ie 6 ...on win. it's like ie can't make > > up its mind about the left margin on the page container. it gets redrawn > > over and over as i scroll and jitters and moves from the left side of > the > > window to where it's supposed to be. text disappears from containers > close > > to the floated image container but reappers when selected and then > remains > > until i redraw or scroll again (sometimes), and hovering over links > makes > > things appear and disappear. it's totally hosed.... > > Cody, this is a weird story. Sounds like the usual IE freak float show, > though. > > But: We can't debug this without an URL or some working code at least. > You provided the code of the content, but why not just give us a chance > and show the container too? > > Anyway, so far I got information from your bug report, I compiled this > test case: > http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/tmp/freakfloat.html > Note what happens on resizing the window ... (1280x1024-> 500x1024) > > Is it like in your page? If so, apply zoom:1 to the container for a > test. Does it still show the same? > > regards, Ingo > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org <http://evolt.org> -- > http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/