There does not appear to be

decibel.places — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:40:08 +0000

There does not appear to be anything wrong with that code snippet, works in Firefox and IE

I hope you remember to close the </div> tag

also, you are better off using a stylesheet rather than all those inline styles

in your stylesheet, do you have any definitions for class="style1" or id="leftcolumn"?

I would hazard a guess that the div is perhaps covered by another element?

it would still be really helpful to provide a URL, or attach an html file

you need to enclose code in

decibel.places — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:50:45 +0000

you need to enclose code in <code> </code> tags
(third icon from the right in the toolbar)

it's also really helpful to provide a URL, or attach an html file

kazimmerman — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:00:44 +0000

You seem to have actually forgotten the code...