[thelist] Please help! Left Nav completely broke in IE

[Ian Anderson]

Bill Scheider wrote:

>I've been messing around with this for hours and can't figure out what I'm
>missing. The left navigation works as it should in FF, Op, NS but in IE6 on
>xp it's as if it were an image - no links working at all. I've been throught
>the markup line by line many times and the CSS too. XHTML validates; CSS
>doesn't because of a parsing error caused by a hack (I think). Removing the
>hack didn't change anything. I hope someone will take the time to look at my
>page because I'm completely baffled. 
>
I think in IE's mind the #content div is rendering over the top of the 
floated left navigation. You can actually partly see this by applying a 
background colour to it.  Setting a width (e.g. 400px) on the #content 
div works around the problem here.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Ian