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IE 7 Bug?

My left hand column keeps changing sizes on IE7

         

lostie

10:36 am on Apr 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



My site works fine on almost all browsers, but since ive started using IE7, I'm noticing a glitch whenever I view a few pages on my site. My site is buit totally with tables (too many tables if you ask me) and IE7 doesnt seem to like this - when I visit one of the affected pages it shows up fine, but if I minimize the page and open something else and then go back to it, the left hand table shrinks to somtimes half its size, making it totally unreadable and useless. The only way to fix it is to refresh the page, or to hover over one of the links which streches the whole table to its usual size again. This is probably due to confilicting table widths, but its really confused me. Anyone else seen an issue like this? Any way I can solve it?

Dabrowski

5:18 pm on Apr 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I have recently been pursuaded not to use tables for layout.

The strict doctype doesn't allow things like row height which makes it extremely difficult to make a good table layout.

IE6 and FF take notice of the table sizes anyway, but IE7 doesn't, so you may be suffering from this as I was.

CSS layouts are hard, but read this thread where I went through the same thing:
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