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Everything works right and looks fine in firefox and netscape, however it does something very odd in IE. The footer's background color sort of rides up into the bottom of the left side column. Almost like a bar graph. It looks as though the footer's background color leaked into the left side somehow, starting at the bottom.
But what's really strange is that if I refresh the page, or open another window in front of the IE window, this strange background color "leak" changes sizes. Seriously. It shrinks and rises. Sometimes it looks like the bottom inch or two of the left side has a background color, sometimes it looks like the entire left side has a background color, and sometimes it looks like there's just half an inch of background color at the bottom of the left side.
I swear I'm not insane, by the way.
This really is the best way I can explain it. I've closed IE and opened a new window. It keeps doing it. Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? If so... what the hell is going on?
Thanks.
I swear I'm not insane, by the way.
It's alright this board is a haven for those that think they're insane because of IE ;)
It could be a hasLayout [webmasterworld.com] effect, if it's a redraw/repainting bug - although it could be a footer clearing problem if you're using a floated layout, and I can't remember offhand if the fix for that is the same or different ..
Try adding {zoom: 1;} or a width to the footer and/or right/content div.
if that's not successful,
try adding 1px bottom padding to the content div
or
if the text in your footer is inside <p> elements, set their margins explicitly rather than relying on a default..
If that doesn't help, post your code for us, stripping the page to just those four divs and their CSS if the effect is still present in it.
Suzy
[edited by: SuzyUK at 4:23 pm (utc) on Sep. 16, 2006]
Thanks for the replies. I added a width to the footer (thanks Suzy) and it seems to have fixed the problem.
Thanks again.
