Thursday, August 19, 2004

I mentioned last week that I was using the maxdesign Floatutorial to help me layout a 3 column site and 3 column containers within my main content div. Well I came across something strange and have just solved the problem. The bug was that IE 5 on OS X (and I dare say OS 9 versions would behave the same) was extending my center container's h1 past the specified width, this did not happen in any other browser I tested on. At first I thought it was due to a couple of form tags being placed within a container rather than outside as it fixed the problem at first. Then I added content to the right hand column of the site and the problem reccured. I went back to the Floatutorial and went through step by step examining my code, well lo and behold I had not specified the right margin on the central container, I foolishly presumed that setting the left margin would be more than enough information for Mac IE given that I had set the width. You live and learn!

Jon 4:30 PM Permalink