IE fix need! Please Help

[mattoebs]

Hi, I noticed then when I look at my site in anything apart for IE6 the Header sections drops down over the rest of the page!

Does any know how to fix this!

the site is www.thestoriesofrhys.com/i

[mattoebs]

Don't know if this will help, but here the style sheet for the pages.

/*****************
browsers interpret margin and padding a little differently,
we'll remove all default padding and margins and
set them later on
******************/
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

/*
Set initial font styles
*/
body {
  text-align: left;
  font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size: 75.01%;
  line-height: 1em;
}

/*
set font size for all divs,
this overrides some body rules
*/
div {
  font-size: 1em;
}

/*
if img is inside "a" it would have
borders, we don't want that
*/
img {
  border: 0;
}

/*
default link styles
*/
/* set all links to have underline and bluish color */
a,
a:link
a:active {
  text-decoration: underline;
/* css validation will give a warning if color is set without background color. this will explicitly tell this element to inherit bg colour from parent element */
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #18507C;
}

a:visited {
  text-decoration: underline;
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #18507C;                /* a different color can be used for visited links */
}


/* remove underline on hover and change color */
a:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
  background-color: #C3D4DF;
  color: #385C72;
}

/*****************
basic layout
*****************/
body {
  background-color: #ccc;
  color: #333;
  margin:0em; /* gives some air for the pagewrapper */
}

/* center wrapper, min max width */
div#pagewrapper {
  border: 1px solid black;
  margin: 0 auto;    /* this centers wrapper */
  max-width: 80em; /* IE wont understand these, so we will use javascript magick */
  min-width: 60em;
  background-color: #fff;;
  color: black;
}


/*** header ***
we will hide text and replace it with a image
we need to assign a height for it
*/

div#header {
  height: 1px; /* adjust according your image size */
  background: #037a1a;         
}

div#header h1 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
  background: #037a1a url(images/cms/hspacer.gif) no-repeat 0 12px; 
  display: block;
  height: 1px;            /* adjust according your image size */
  text-indent: -999em;  /* this hides the text */
  text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}

div#search {
  float: right;
  width: 23em;    /* enough width for the search input box */
  text-align: right;
  padding: 0.0em 0 0.0em 0;
  margin: 0 1em;
}

div.breadcrumbs {
  background: #FFFFFF url(images/cms/hspacer.gif) no-repeat 0 12px;
  padding: 0em 0 0em 0; /* CSS short hand rule first value is top then right, bottom and left */
  font-size: 90%;            /* its good to set fontsizes to be relative, this way viewer can change his/her fontsize */
  margin: 0 1em;              /* css shorthand rule will be opened to be "0 1em 0 1em" */
  border-bottom: 0px dotted #000;
}

div#content {
  margin: 0em auto 0em 0; /* some air abobe and under menu and content */
}

div#main {
  margin-left: 29%; /* this will give room for sidebar to be on the left side, make sure this space is bigger than sidebar width */
  margin-right: 2%; /* and some air on the right */
}


div#sidebar {
  float: left;  /* set sidebar on the left side. Change to right to float it right instead. */
  width: 26%;    /* sidebar width, if you change this please also change #main margins */
  display: inline;  /* FIX ie doublemargin bug */
  margin-left: 0;
}

/* if sidebar doesnt include menu but content add class="hascontent" */
div#sidebar.hascontent {
  padding: 0 1%;
  width: 24%;  /* make width smaller if there's padding, or it will get too wide for the floated divs in IE */
}

div#footer {
  clear:both;      /* keep footer below content and menu */
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #385C72; /* same bg color as in header */
}

div#footer p {
  font-size: 0.8em;
  padding: 1.5em;      /* some air for footer */
  text-align: center; /* centered text */
  margin:0;
}

div#footer p a {
  color: #fff; /* needed becouse footer link would be same color as background otherwise */
}

/* as we hid all hr for accessibility we create new hr with extra div element */
div.hr {
  height: 1px;
  margin: 1em;
  border-bottom: 1px dotted black;
}

/* relational links under content */
div.left49 {
  float: left;
  width: 49%;  /* 50% for both left and right might lead to rounding error on some browser */
}

div.right49 {
  float: right;
  width: 49%;
  text-align: right;
}




/********************
CONTENT STYLING
*********************/
div#content {

}

/* HEADINGS */
div#content h1 {
  font-size: 2em;  /* font size for h1 */
  line-height: 1em;
  margin: 0;
}
div#content h2 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1.5em;
  text-align: left;
/* some air around the text */
  padding-left: 0.5em;
  padding-bottom: 1px;
/* set borders around header */
  border-bottom: 1px solid #e7ab0b;
  border-left: 1.1em solid #e7ab0b;
  line-height: 1.5em;
/* and some air under the border */
  margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h3 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1.3em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h4 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1.2em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
div#content h5 {
  font-size: 1.1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
h6 {
  font-size: 1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
/* END HEADINGS */

/* TEXT */
p {
  font-size: 1em;
  margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;  /* some air around p elements */
  line-height:1.4em;
  padding: 0;
}
blockquote {
  border-left: 10px solid #ddd;
  margin-left: 10px;
}
pre {
  font-family: monospace;
  font-size: 1.0em;
}
strong, b {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-weight: bold;
}
em, i {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-style:italic;
}

/* Wrapping text in tags. Makes CSS not validate */
code, pre {
white-space: pre-wrap;      /* css-3 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;  /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap;      /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap;    /* Opera 7 */
word-wrap: break-word;      /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-size: 1em;
}

pre {
  border: 1px solid #000;  /* black border for pre blocks */
  background-color: #ddd;
  margin: 0 1em 1em 1em;
  padding: 0.5em;
  line-height: 1.5em;
  font-size: 90%;  /* smaller font size, as these are usually not so important data */
}

/* END TEXT */

/* LISTS */
div#main ul,
div#main ol,
div#main dl {
  font-size: 1.0em;
  line-height:1.4em;
  margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;
}
div#main ul li,
div#main ol li {
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 3em;
}

div#dl dt {
  font-weight: bold;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 3em;
}
div#dl dd {
  margin: 0 0 0 3em;
}
/* END LISTS */

I can't see why it's not working.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[chead]

Remove

height: 1px;

from #header and presto! 

[mattoebs]

Fantastic! it all works, Your a star thank you!!!

[Nullig]

I think your /tmp/cache/ folder may be unwriteable. I keep getting errors.

Nullig

[RonnyK]

I wouldn't delete the height in "div#header" and "div#header h1 a" but set them to a height that fits at least the height of the image. That way the background of div#header fills the background while independently of the width of the image in "div#header h1 a" it will be put over the same position.

Ronny