[thelist] IE display behavior - image too wide for window

[Brent Eades]

Michael Slater wrote:

> As long as the window is big enough to display the whole picture, Firefox
> 1.5 and IE 6 both show the same, expected behavior. But if the window is too
> narrow to display it all, Firefox just truncates the right edge of the
> picture (which is the behavior I want), whereas IE knocks the start of the
> image down below the end of the left bar (which is a big problem!).
>  
> Am I doing something wrong here? Or is there a bug in IE that I need to work
> around?

Yes, there is a positioning bug in MSIE. Many of them, actually :)

Anyway, this should work:

<div style='position:absolute; left:195px;'>
<img src...

Note that I'm using the 'left' property, not 'margin-left'. The way I 
read the CSS2 spec, setting an offset for 'position:absolute' is 
quasi-required:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html -

"absolute:
The box's position (and possibly size) is specified with the 'left', 
'right', 'top', and 'bottom' properties. These properties specify 
offsets with respect to the box's containing block."


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Brent Eades	
Almonte, Ontario
http://almonte.com