> I gave up and installed a different 3 column fluid with no hacks. > I use WinMe and MSIE 6 ... appears Ok. > > What say ye? Wellll, you have a bit of a 'dog's breakfest' on your hands, here are three views on WinXP 1) IE 6 - http://www.telusplanet.net/~pabramow/sandbox/fox_ie.gif 2) Mozzilla 1.4 - http://www.telusplanet.net/~pabramow/sandbox/fox_moz.gif 3) Opera 7.10 - http://www.telusplanet.net/~pabramow/sandbox/fox_opr.gif I think Martin's suggestion to correct validating errors would be a good start. Remeber in XHTML " Empty elements must either have an end tag or the start tag must end with /> ". PeterA