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Greetings.

I am having troubles using absolute positioning in IE6. When I establish the width as 100%, it's not spanning the entire width of the browser. It works in Firefox, Safari, and IE7.... Just not IE6. Any suggestions?

Website: stevenkneff.com

code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>News, Politics, &amp; World Affairs by Steven K. Neff</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#apDiv1 {
position:absolu te;
left:0px;
top:0px;
height:46px;
z-index:1;
background-color: #333333;
width: 100%;
}
#apDiv2 {
position:absolu te;
left:0px;
top:45px;
width:100%;
height:31px;
z-index:2;
background-image: url(../../../background22.jp g);
}
#apDiv3 {position:absol ute;
left:0px;
top:44px;
width:436px;
height:31px;
z-index:5;
}td img {display: block;}td img {display: block;}
#apDiv4 {
position:absolu te;
left:0px;
top:76px;
width:100%;
height:28px;
z-index:4;
background-image: url(../../../back2.jpg);
margin: 0px;
right: 0px;
clear: both;
}
body {
background-color: #CCCCCC;
}td img {display: block;}
#apDiv5 {
position:absolu te;
left:0px;
top:45px;
width:100%;
height:31px;
z-index:3;
margin: 0px;
right: 0px;
clear: both;
}
-->
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function MM_swapImgResto re() { //v3.0
var i,x,a=document. MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a. length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++ ) x.src=x.oSrc;
}
function MM_preloadImage s() { //v3.0
var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
var i,j=d.MM_p.leng th,a=MM_preload Images.argument s; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
if (a[i].indexOf("#")!= 0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf ("?"))>0&&paren t.frames.length ) {
d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1 )].document; n=n.substring(0 ,p);}
if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.fo rms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
for(i=0;!x&&d.l ayers&&i<d.laye rs.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n, d.layers[i].document);
if(!x && d.getElementByI d) x=d.getElementB yId(n); return x;
}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
var i,j=0,x,a=MM_sw apImage.argumen ts; document.MM_sr= new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.le ngth-2);i+=3)
if ((x=MM_findObj( a[i]))!=null){docum ent.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}
//-->
</script>
</head>

<body onload="MM_prel oadImages('../../../politics.png',' ../../../world.png','../../../openforum.png', '../../../video.png','../../../chatroom.png')" >
<div id="apDiv1"></div>
<div id="apDiv2"></div>
<div id="apDiv3">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="435">
<!-- fwtable fwsrc="NAVBARMA IN.png" fwpage="Page 1" fwbase="NAVBARM AIN.jpg" fwstyle="Dreamw eaver" fwdocid = "678609774" fwnested="0" -->
<tr>
<td><img src="../../../spacer.gif" alt="" name="undefined _2" width="68" height="1" border="0" id="undefined_2 " /></td>
<td><img src="../../../spacer.gif" alt="" name="undefined _2" width="72" height="1" border="0" id="undefined_2 " /></td>
<td><img src="../../../spacer.gif" alt="" name="undefined _2" width="65" height="1" border="0" id="undefined_2 " /></td>
<td><img src="../../../spacer.gif" alt="" name="undefined _2" width="93" height="1" border="0" id="undefined_2 " /></td>
<td><img src="../../../spacer.gif" alt="" name="undefined _2" width="52" height="1" border="0" id="undefined_2 " /></td>
<td><img src="../../../spacer.gif" alt="" name="undefined _2" width="82" height="1" border="0" id="undefined_2 " /></td>
<td><img src="../../../spacer.gif" alt="" name="undefined _2" width="3" height="1" border="0" id="undefined_2 " /></td>
<td><img src="../../../spacer.gif" alt="" name="undefined _2" width="1" height="1" border="0" id="undefined_2 " /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img name="NAVBARMAI N_r1_c1" src="../../../NAVBARMAIN_r1_c 1.jpg" width="68" height="32" border="0" id="NAVBARMAIN_ r1_c1" alt="" /></td>
<td><a href="javascrip t:;" onmouseout="MM_ swapImgRestore( )" onmouseover="MM _swapImage('NAV BARMAIN_r1_c2', '','../../../politics.png',1 );"><img name="NAVBARMAI N_r1_c2" src="../../../NAVBARMAIN_r1_c 2.jpg" width="72" height="32" border="0" id="NAVBARMAIN_ r1_c2" alt="" /></a></td>
<td><a href="javascrip t:;" onmouseout="MM_ swapImgRestore( )" onmouseover="MM _swapImage('NAV BARMAIN_r1_c3', '','../../../world.png',1)"> <img name="NAVBARMAI N_r1_c3" src="../../../NAVBARMAIN_r1_c 3.jpg" width="65" height="32" border="0" id="NAVBARMAIN_ r1_c3" alt="" /></a></td>
<td><a href="javascrip t:;" onmouseout="MM_ swapImgRestore( )" onmouseover="MM _swapImage('NAV BARMAIN_r1_c4', '','../../../openforum.png', 1);"><img name="NAVBARMAI N_r1_c4" src="../../../NAVBARMAIN_r1_c 4.jpg" width="93" height="32" border="0" id="NAVBARMAIN_ r1_c4" alt="" /></a></td>
<td><a href="javascrip t:;" onmouseout="MM_ swapImgRestore( )" onmouseover="MM _swapImage('NAV BARMAIN_r1_c5', '','../../../video.png',1);" ><img name="NAVBARMAI N_r1_c5" src="../../../NAVBARMAIN_r1_c 5.jpg" width="52" height="32" border="0" id="NAVBARMAIN_ r1_c5" alt="" /></a></td>
<td><a href="javascrip t:;" onmouseout="MM_ swapImgRestore( )" onmouseover="MM _swapImage('NAV BARMAIN_r1_c6', '','../../../chatroom.png',1 );"><img name="NAVBARMAI N_r1_c6" src="../../../NAVBARMAIN_r1_c 6.jpg" width="82" height="32" border="0" id="NAVBARMAIN_ r1_c6" alt="" /></a></td>
<td><img name="NAVBARMAI N_r1_c7" src="../../../NAVBARMAIN_r1_c 7.jpg" width="3" height="32" border="0" id="NAVBARMAIN_ r1_c7" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="../../../spacer.gif" alt="" name="undefined _2" width="1" height="32" border="0" id="undefined_2 " /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div id="apDiv4"></div>
<div id="apDiv5"></div>
</body>
</html>
Jul 29 '07 #1
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