> I would appreciate it if someone would take the time to check out my > page and tell me why the background color is not working in the div > called main_content. I know the positioning is slightly off in Netscape > and way off in IE and I don't know why. It looks fine locally on my > computer. I will deal with that later. What I want the div to have is > a light gray background and black text. Right now I have the text a > light color so I can see it. > > http://www.roughandreadydesigns.com/test/index.shtml > > css file: > > http://www.roughandreadydesigns.com/test/main_setup.css > > > Many thanks to anyone who can help me. > > marlene >
Marlene, The background is applied to main-content the problem is that main-content doesn't contain anything nor does it have a height. Since it contains nothing, it collapses and takes up ~zero space. Nick -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/