In fact, it's specifically floating the image that causes the problem. If I comment out the float, the margin of the containing div stays in the right place (of course, the image isn't in the right spot, but...)
Anyone have a clue for me?? I obviously can't seem to find one :) Thanks! Dave Dave Re wrote: > Ok, after trial and error, I narrowed it down to this code snippet that's > causing the problem. If I comment the img tag out of the XHTML, the problem > goes > away: > > XHTML: > > <img src="Falturro.jpg" width="118" height="177" alt="Horse charging" > class="imgright" /> > > Corresponding CSS: > img.imgright { > display: block; > float: right; > clear: left; > margin: 0 0 10px 20px; padding: 0; > } > > Does that narrow down to a more specific IE issue?? > > Thanks! > > Dave > > Dave Re wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm a rank amateur at CSS, so please bear with me :) I'm working on >> converting my existing web page to (hopefully) a pure CSS layout. I've run >> into >> a sticky issue with IE. Here are the pertinent links: >> >> page: http://www.daverephoto.com/CSSTest/index.html >> CSS: http://www.daverephoto.com/CSSTest/drpmain.css >> >> Currently, none of the hyperlinks really work, etc - this is a mockup >> for >> layout testing purposes. Ok, on to the problem. >> >> In IE6, if I resize the window too large, everything inside >> div#maincontent >> "loses" it's margin - that is, the border of the div is suddenly on the left >> side of the browser window, instead of offset to the right, clearing >> div#leftnav. If I resize the browser window smaller, the proper layout >> appears. >> >> I have no idea what this does on IE5.x (Win or Mac), at this point. IE6 >> is >> painful enough! :) >> >> The background of div#maincontent will eventually be black, but is >> different now for visibility of the problem (it's easy to lose that 1px >> border >> on the left side of the window...). >> >> Being new to CSS, I'm not intuiting what it is that I'm doing that's >> aggravating IE, yet. And, I'm having problems finding examples that give me a >> clue. It's hard enough trying to pick out how to do this in the first place, >> from the myriad of examples and tips/tricks/hacks/etc that are out there... >> >> Any help would be extremely appreciated :D >> >> Thanks! >> >> Dave >> > -- Dave Re Photography 19104 Ventana Ct, Pflugerville, TX 78660 (c) 512.771.2431 -- (h) 512.251.3815 http://www.daverephoto.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/