Suzanne — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:35:06 +0000

And, naturally, as soon as I say it, there is an exception: http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/midpass.html

For IE5.0 and 5.5 -- this will correct any stupidity on their part and allow lower and higher browsers free access to the single stylesheet...

Suzanne — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:21:00 +0000

When you're working on it, try not to use both DIV and TABLE for positioning. Additionally, try to keep everything possible in the global style sheet, that will help troubleshooting.

If you're using absolute positioning, DO NOT use HTML for positioning or sizes! It really does muck things up.

Wherever possible, use ONE stylesheet, not multiple. It's possible to hide damaging code from various browsers, and that's preferred to maintaining browser-specific stylesheets.

IanD — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:27:33 +0000

It's only an IE bug. We tried doing a pure CSS layout at first but it wasn't working the way we hoped so we had to compromise with the current mixture of tables and CSS. We're only having a few minor bugs with using multiple stylesheets (some of the link colors being wrong, for instance), but we haven't spent a lot of time trying to fix them yet so we may get them resolved.

Suzanne — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:13:05 +0000

I'm not sure, but in general using tables + absolute positioning causes problems. For layout, you may want to choose one or the other, not both.

You have a very complex site. I'm not using a browser that would duplicate your problem, however, I suspect that you have other issues brought on my mixing inline, local, global stylesheets, HTML positioning + CSS positioning and more.

IanD — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:53:53 +0000

That's not true, http://www.rvmountainvillage.com/ and http://www.medxstream.com/default.htm both use absolute positioning and don't get the error.

Renegade — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:57:59 +0000

The only solution would be to use relative positioning. IE messess up "anything" and "everything"