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IE/Win 5.x check needed

Sent by Timothy J. Luoma on 30 September 2003 23:11


Big John said:
> Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
>>
>> I have a report that http://www.gfpc.org/ looks really bad in
>> some version
>> of IE/Win, with the left & right sidebars appearing over the
>> main content.
>
> Tim, you have 130px side margins on the center col, and
> standard width
> value on the sids cols is 120px, which is fine since the total
> side
> padding in thos cols is 5px. But IE5.x/win is getting a width
> of 150px!
> That's way too big. It should be the standard width plus the
> 5px, or 125px.

doh


>> I have IE6/Win and it looks ok here (even in Quirks mode) but
>> I don't
>> currently have a IE/5.x to use.
>
> That's because IE6 may emulate IE5.x, but it won't be fooled by
> the
> Tantek hack like IE5.x will. IE6 still reads the 120px value,
> and
> altho it is off, it's only by 5px so you don't notice that the
> col is
> slightly narrower than it should be.

doh^2


> BTW, how's that kid of yours? :-)

adorable, 16 months old and growing like a weed.  Only problem
is that I don't have nearly as much time to waste on the
computer as I used to ;-)

http://tntluoma.com/ddoe

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