IE6 and FF2 / Op9 problem (float?)

[Pete Horrobin]

Sorry about the rather vague subject, I'm only guessing I have a "float"
problem -- chances are it's something v-e-r-y simple (like me!).

(This is also my first question to the group, so apologies in advance if
I'm doing something else wrong -- including posting in the wrong group!)
Test stuff is at:

HTML http://www.horshamhc.co.uk/site07/pitchtestlive.htm

CSS http://www.horshamhc.co.uk/site07/hhcstyles.css
http://www.horshamhc.co.uk/site07/hhcddtabs.css
As you might expect, the above page renders differently in IE6 than in FF2
and Opera 9 -- IE6 showing the desired result.

To summarise, the footer appears as desired in IE6, but somewhat
differently in the others, and I'm at a loss as to where the cause lies.

I'm hoping one or more of you might have the time to have a look and point
out what I should be doing!

TIA

Pete
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[Ben C]

On 2007-07-05, Pete Horrobin <re*****@viause.netwrote:

Sorry about the rather vague subject, I'm only guessing I have a "float"
problem -- chances are it's something v-e-r-y simple (like me!).

(This is also my first question to the group, so apologies in advance if
I'm doing something else wrong -- including posting in the wrong group!)
Test stuff is at:

HTML http://www.horshamhc.co.uk/site07/pitchtestlive.htm

CSS http://www.horshamhc.co.uk/site07/hhcstyles.css
http://www.horshamhc.co.uk/site07/hhcddtabs.css
As you might expect, the above page renders differently in IE6 than in FF2
and Opera 9 -- IE6 showing the desired result.

To summarise, the footer appears as desired in IE6, but somewhat
differently in the others, and I'm at a loss as to where the cause lies.

I'm hoping one or more of you might have the time to have a look and point
out what I should be doing!

The problem is you've set height: 100% on #container (around
hhcstyles07.css: 450). That makes its height 100% of the viewport, which
means #txt3colMain overflows it unless the viewport is very tall. The
footer however starts where #container ends, which means it ends up
behind the overflowing part of #txt3colMain.

So just lose the height: 100% on #container, I can't see what you need it
for anyway: it has the effect of pushing the footer slightly off the
screen, which is too high if the screen is shorter than #txt3colMain and
probably slightly too low otherwise.

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Ben C <sp******@spam.eggswrote in
news:sl*********************@bowser.marioworld:

On 2007-07-05, Pete Horrobin <re*****@viause.netwrote:

>Sorry about the rather vague subject, I'm only guessing I have a
"float" problem -- chances are it's something v-e-r-y simple (like
me!).

(This is also my first question to the group, so apologies in advance
if I'm doing something else wrong -- including posting in the wrong
group!)
Test stuff is at:

HTML http://www.horshamhc.co.uk/site07/pitchtestlive.htm

CSS http://www.horshamhc.co.uk/site07/hhcstyles.css
http://www.horshamhc.co.uk/site07/hhcddtabs.css
As you might expect, the above page renders differently in IE6 than in
FF2 and Opera 9 -- IE6 showing the desired result.

To summarise, the footer appears as desired in IE6, but somewhat
differently in the others, and I'm at a loss as to where the cause
lies.

I'm hoping one or more of you might have the time to have a look and
point out what I should be doing!

The problem is you've set height: 100% on #container (around
hhcstyles07.css: 450). That makes its height 100% of the viewport, which
means #txt3colMain overflows it unless the viewport is very tall. The
footer however starts where #container ends, which means it ends up
behind the overflowing part of #txt3colMain.

So just lose the height: 100% on #container, I can't see what you need
it for anyway: it has the effect of pushing the footer slightly off the
screen, which is too high if the screen is shorter than #txt3colMain and
probably slightly too low otherwise.

Thank you Ben, that'll do nicely!

I was so convinced I'd stuffed up somewhere with floats and/or positioning
I didn't think to look at this. Unfortunately, I can't help you with an
answer as to why I'd put it there in the first place -- I've no idea,
though it was probably just a bit of over-enthusiastic cut-and-paste!

Thanks again for your help -- it is much appreciated.

Pete
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