Columns Problem

[JasonDeVelvis]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to finish up some tweaks on a Wordpress template, and I can't figure out one last problem, and I was told this place is the place to go for CSS help.

I have a 3 column design, and in the process of making other changes, I threw off the 3rd column in IE (it works fine in FF) - it now displays at the bottom of the page instead of where it normally should - and I can't figure out what I need to do to get it back to normal.

It's on my test blog at www.weblog-about.com

Any ideas, suggestions, fixes, etc you can give me would be greatly appreciated! :)

[alias]

The problem usually occurs when the columns are being floated, and one of them doesn't fit in - the IE just usually moves it to where there's enough space - to the bottom in this case. Make sure they all fit in, try to determine which one of them is consuming more space than it's intended to.

M.Saulis

[Don_Hoagie]

Yep, what alias said.

What are your width/padding/border/margin dimensions on these columns? Are you floating them?

Incidentally, I posted this problem on a site i was doing a while back, and the strangest thing was that a combination of 3 floated columns adding up to 100% width was doing what your site is doing, but only in IE6 versions lower than 6.0.29. That version and newer releases displayed the columns just fine. Go figure.

P.S.: Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

P.P.S.: Try to avoid posting URLs, it's against the T.O.S.; we're happy to take a look at the problematic code if you want to post it here...

[JasonDeVelvis]

Oh, sorry, I didn't know that I wasn't allowed to post URLs for help reasons (Heh, if you visit that blog, you'll realize why it's not an ad lol)

Ok, I've been racking my brain all day about the widths, and I figured out the problem when there's a single post, but when there are multiple posts (all correct widths, I checked each post individually) it shoves the sidebars down to the bottom of the post loop... Now it does it in both FF and IE...

I can post the code, but it's not a small template - neither the .css or index.php file. Should I post it still? Or is my problem common enough that you recognize it? :)