Spot on Els and many thanks. Rounding problem sounds very credible and fits the evidence perfectly.
Thanks to Tom too since to solve this I actually used a hack from the end of the link you offered. Specifically I added the following to the #searchBar styling to push it to the right and cover that errant 1px line in IE only. right:-1px; ri/gth: 0; Peter -----Original Message----- From: Els [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 July 2006 22:53 To: Tom Livingston; Peter Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] IE Whitespace to right of absolutely positioned div Tom Livingston wrote: > On 7/26/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a site where I've stripped out truckload of tables and >> even tried to protect again some font size variation. It >> looks good (i.e. works) in FF 1.5 and Opera 9, but hey ho, >> there's a 2px wide gap in IE. >> >> Here's a link to a simplified version >> www.kuroi.co.uk/testing/ITC. >> >> If anybody can tell me what's going on and how I can prevent >> this, I'd be eternally grateful. > > just a guess. No time to peek. > > http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html Nope - it's only 1px, and it's a gap between a relative positioned parent, and an absolute positioned child. It only happens when the absolute positioned child has a right value (of 0). When positioning it to the left, there is no 1px gap. Haven't seen it before myself, but it seems to be a rounding problem. If you give the parent a width in pixels, the gap disappears. If you leave the width on auto or a percentage, dragging the window's side to the left pixel by pixel, will see the gap play hide and seek. Workaround for your page: give #searchBar a right value of -1px. The 1px you lose in the other browsers will go unnoticed. -- Els http://locusmeus.com/ http://locusoptimus.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/