overlapping divs in IE

[Daphne Tregear]

Is there every anything other than woe with IE...?

I'm working on a redesign for my hobby pages in my personal home space
before re-exporting them back to where they belong. I've based the
redesign on Ben Meadowcroft's templates which behave impeccably. Under
IE using text sizes 'small' and 'smallest' the RHS div ends up
overlapping the central content div. I've worried at this for so long
I'm at the stupid stage.

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~daf/i-p-c-s.org/template.php

Most of the links won't work yet. Obviously when you reduce the text
size such that 150 pixels (size of RHS image) is > 12 ems (margin of
central content) the image will overlap the div's border on the
right. A horizontal scrollbar appears and I assume the sentient human
being using the browser will do what is necessary. But in IE there's
no scrollbar and the RHS div just starts marching to the left...

Any ideas? Is there a hack to take care of the IE misbehaviour?

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Daf Tregear
Manchester, UK

[Jim Moe]

Daphne Tregear wrote:

Is there every anything other than woe with IE...?

I'm working on a redesign for my hobby pages in my personal home space
before re-exporting them back to where they belong. I've based the
redesign on Ben Meadowcroft's templates which behave impeccably. Under
IE using text sizes 'small' and 'smallest' the RHS div ends up
overlapping the central content div.

IE does not allow content to extend beyond its containing div like
other browsers do. Note how the URL disappears into the distance in
Firefox where it is wrapped in IE. So when the text is made smaller, the
RHS column does no shrink accordingly because the image prevents it.
A way around this is to use pixel-specified widths for the RHS column
and the right-hand margin of the center column.

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[Daphne Tregear]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Moe <jm***************@sohnen-moe.com> writes:

Jim> A way around this
Jim> is to use pixel-specified widths for the RHS column and the
Jim> right-hand margin of the center column.

Indeed it does! Thank you so very much. I feel so much better now I've
stopped banging my head against that wall ;->
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Daf Tregear
Manchester, UK