Hi Ben, Thanks to the time delay on the mailing list our messages crossed. I will take a look at your suggestion and see if it will make the coding simpler.
Now, as my mother used to say, "Go outside and enjoy the sundshine". Cheers James -----Original Message----- From: Ben Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 14 February 2004 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] IE 5 position problems Hi James, Without my trusty toolkit handy, I can't answer why it is breaking, I suspect it is probably a box-model issue as you say, but I do have a suggestion that might fix the problems. As you have a fixed-width layout, explicitly setting widths for both columns and "float:left"ing the first column, changing #containerProductUpdates to "float:right" instead of "margin-left:auto" should make things simpler for the browser to nut out. #containerProductUpdates { float:right; /* margin-left:auto; */ padding:0px; width:387px } hth, Ben Only one week till the joint Web Standards Group / Macromedia User Groups meeting at Star City and MXDU! www.mxdu.com James Gollan wrote: > The rendering problems are: > > . in IE5 (Win) the top edges of the two columns are not even; > > . In IE5.5 Win the spacing between the columns is too close; > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************