Okay, it works now, thanks very much for your help. But I don't quite understand why it works the way it does and I would really appreciate if you have the time to explain it to me. The whitebg div seems to push the navbar across to the right, but it doesn't seem to push it over 160 pixels (the width of the whitebg div). In the file http://www.biotext.com.au/test0205/columns27.html I set the whitebg div to a width of 160 pixels but it looks as if there is about 30 pixels space to the left. In the file http://www.biotext.com.au/test0205/columns29.html I set the width of whitebg to 220 pixels and there is more but it's not 220 pixels.
Don't know what happened to my doctype, I'm sure I had a proper one in there at one stage. I've put in the 4.01 transitional - loose dtd, as I am handing this over to the client for maintenance in an old version of Dreamweaver, and I'm dubious about the html that will be inserted as content. However I also tried this with xhtml at http://www.biotext.com.au/test0205/columns30.html and the space to the left still doesn't look like 160 pixels. Thanks, Maren >Think you've got it the wrong way around. The green border should start at the logo, and stretch to the left. The rest is just adjustments to make it look right. The following is based on this page: > http://www.biotext.com.au/test0205/columns_25.html #topnavbar {position: absolute; top: 177px; right: 130px; height: 48px; background-image: url("bar00004.gif"); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: right bottom; width: 100%; z-index: 1; } #whitebg { float: left; width: 160px; height: 48px; background-color: #fff; } > ...and a proper doctype that the browsers will honor. I used: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > Safari, Firefox, Opera, IE6 and IE/Mac seems to be happy with it - regardless of page-width above 600px. > regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ 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/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
