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

Roberto Gorjão roberto at castelosnoar.com
Tue Sep 20 04:37:34 CDT 2005


Setting the navigation bar with a z-index greater than the content div 
should also work.

By the way, your CSS file broke my Dreamweaver three times... Spooky! I 
gave up trying.

Roberto

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Ian Anderson wrote:

> 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.
>


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