Hi Tim
Many thanks for this. It worked like a dream.
Incidentally, I tried putting the same CSS rules in separately:
background-image: (url...);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: bottom left;
and it didn't seem to work (yes, I'm a Dreamweaver user). Strange, eh?
Cheers
Paul
Tim Palac wrote:
> Paul,
>
> This was a frustrating one! Anyway, after much fooling I replaced the
> css for #main-top with the following:
>
> #main-top {
> height: 16px;
> width: 770px;
> background: url(...) no-repeat bottom left;
> }
>
> This works great in IE6, IE7, and Firefox for me. For some reason it
> was just IE6 the old version wasn't working in, guess it has weird
> issues with background placement.
>
> Tim
> AIM: TymArtist
> www.timpalac.com <http://www.timpalac.com>
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Paul Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
> I've been trying to fix this till I can't remember my own name:
>
> I have a page that looks just as I want in FF but which misbehaves
> in IE6,
> showing a gap between divs.
> Link: http://www.pauljinks.co.uk/test/contentTemplate2.html
>
> I've stripped down everything to identify the offending code,
> which looks
> like this:
>
> <div id="container">
> <div id="main-top"></div>
> <div id="objective"></div>
> <div id="objectiveBot"></div>
> </div>
>
> The idea is that the content of #objective appears in a nice
> rectangle
> with rounded corners, the top and bottom of said rectangle being
> contained
> by #main-top and #objectiveBot.
>
> here's my css:
>
> body {
> margin: 0px;
> padding: 0px;
> }
>
> #container {
> width: 770px;
> margin: auto;
> }
>
> #main-top {
> height: 16px;
> width: 770px;
> background-image: url(..);
> background-repeat: no-repeat;
> }
>
> #container #objectiveBot {
> background-image: url(..);
> background-repeat: no-repeat;
> width: 770px;
> height: 23px;
> }
>
> #container #objective {
> background-image: url(...);
> background-repeat: repeat-y;
> width: 770px;
> }
> I know it's something pretty obvious, but I can't see the wood for the
> wotsits here.
>
> Please help.
>
> Paul
>
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