[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.wdam.co.uk/clients/dynam/hh/ > > I didn't post it at first as I didn't want it to look like I'm asking > you to do my homework for me; I'd rather grasp the concept than copy > parrot fashion.
Good thinking :-) > That said, I do need to fix it rather fast! Make sure you understand "Doctypes and their respective layout mode" first... <http://gutfeldt.ch/matthias/articles/doctypeswitch/table.html> ...as it will make everything else a lot more consistent if you trigger the right mode in all browsers that _has_ two modes. Your existing... <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ...triggers 'quirks mode', so that's the same as having "no DocType at all". IE6 is especially "quirky" with that DocType. Choosing - and writing source-code in accordance with - a DocType that'll trigger 'strict mode' will give you the option mentioned by others in this thread: "styling a self-centering body". Maybe use this DocType... <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> ...since you have some 'non-strict' elements in there. CSS: body { width: 730px /* suitable width to hold the layout */; margin: 0 auto 0 auto /* auto-centering */; position: relative /* makes AP relate to body */; } ...will center body in Opera, Firefox *and* IE6 (and probably most other "mode-switching browsers" but I didn't check), and place all the absolute positioned elements firmly inside that centered body. No extra wrapper-div needed. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
