Thanks for the help Georg. This seems to be working. As you mentioned, the only drawback appears to be that it breaks down in IE6 and below when you resize the window real small. So it's either that or go with Quirks Mode. I think I'll opt for no Quirks Mode and put up with the window resizing issue.
I'll be a happy man when IE6 does finally disappear from the landscape. My April Urchin stats show IE6 users at 24% - compared to 46% for IE7, 22% for Firefox, 4.5% for Safari, 0.64% for Opera, and a whopping 0.11% for IE5. It looks like it will still be awhile, but the Firefox numbers are encouraging. -Melbeach ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gunlaug Sørtun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Melbeach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <css-d@lists.css-discuss.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] "Perfect 3 column liquid layout" (Matthew James Taylor) and Quirks Mode > Melbeach wrote: > > > I've been experimenting with the different 3-column layout methods and I think > > I like this version the best: > > http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-3-column.htm. However, it seems > > that the layout only works in IE6 if I send the browser into Quirks Mode by > > beginning the html/xhtml page with the following declaration: > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > > If I delete this, the layout breaks apart in IE6. > > If you by "breaks" mean the border gets added to the viewport in IE6' > slightly more standard compliant mode, then adding... > > html {border: none;} > > ...will fix that. It's as expected since body equals viewport in quirks > mode while html equals viewport in standard mode. > > I can't provoke any other differences between the two modes in IE6 at my > end, so if there are any problematic ones then you'll have to tell me/us > where they are. > > regards > Georg > -- > http://www.gunlaug.no > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
