[TriLUG] CSS question

Christopher Cline grumpusbumpus at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 15:13:11 EST 2012


Probably would help to see the CSS and HTML source.

-Chris Cline

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:

> I have been fighting an issue for some time, seeming to dig myself deeper
> with every attempt to fix things.
>
> I have a series of nested Divs, producing a menu down the side of the
> page.  As usual, Firefox and Chrome behave just fine, but IE 8 is the
> target.
>
> What is interesting to me is that although the HTML and CSS is identical
> for all of the menu items, one or more of the menu items is out of line
> with the others.
>
> The structure is:
>
> Body
>  Div
>  Div
>    Div ( menu container )
>      Div ( menu title )
>      Div ( menu body )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>      Div ( menu title )
>      Div ( menu body )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>      Div ( menu title )
>      Div ( menu body )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>    Div ( main content )
>    Div ( footer )
>
>
> However, in the IE 8 page, it displays as:
>
> Body
>  Div
>  Div
>    Div ( menu container )
>      Div ( menu title )
>      Div ( menu body )
>          Div ( menu item )
>          Div ( menu item )
>          Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>      Div ( menu title )
>      Div ( menu body )
>          Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>      Div ( menu title )
>      Div ( menu body )
>          Div ( menu item )
>          Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>        Div ( menu item )
>    Div ( main content )
>    Div ( footer )
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Obviously, I will be happy to show more specific content on request.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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