No News with Internet Explorer .......

[Donoss]

Hi,

I've setup a website www.donoss.com with news on the home page.  I use Firefox and the news displays fine, however I recently noticed that when a friend of mine using IE accesses the page the news does not appear?  Any idea's why this is so? and how can I rectify the situation?

Many thanks

Andy

[mahjong]

The news appear, but are pushed lower because IE doesn't handle floating block's widths correctly.

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div#main {

        float: left;
        width: 45%;
        display: inline;
        margin-left: 2%;
    }

    div#content2 {
        float: left;
        width: 24%;
        display: inline;
        padding: 0 1% 0 2%;
    }

Firefox (as any other standard compliant browser) will correctly calculate the width in proportion to the container. So, width:45% is interpreted has 45% of the usable space available in div#container.

Buggy IE will instead calculate 45% in proportion of the total width of browser window, completely ignoring the padding and margins you have specified.

[mahjong]

Some leads for a solution:

http://nemesis1.f2o.org/aarchive?id=11
http://crowstoburnaby.com/index.php/200 ... t_drop_bug
http://www.positioniseverything.net/thr ... retch.html