http://mysite.verizon.net/gdguarino/alps.htm
I've got a navigation box with links to the other pages on the site.
Below that I've got another box with a hastily-written anecdote in it
(to be edited later). I'd like the two boxes to be pretty close
together.
The problem is that the distance between them is different in IE than
in Firefox. I assume that the reason for this is that I have a lot of
padding at the top of the nav box to accomodate the page heading bar.
As far as I can tell, IE incorporates that padding into the specified
height of the bax, while FF adds the padding onto the height, making
the box taller. Thus the "anecdote box", whose position is set as a
distance from the top of the window, appears to be close in FF and
further away in IE.
I'm guessing there's a way to have the anecdote box be 5 px below the
nav box rather than specifying it as an absolute position, which would
solve the problem. But I'd also like to know if I'm right about the
difeerence in the way IE and FF handle padding.
Greg Guarino