IE6 not loading site properly

[bluestrobe]

I knew about the issue from the start of the new web site design but ignored it since it worked with all of the other browsers. The right menu gets shoved down to below the content section due to a sizing conflict. Each menu is 150px wide and the content container is 600px wide. My web site is here and my css code is here. Only found the issue in IE6, every other browser doesn't do it.

Should I be worried and try to correct it or leave it as is?

 

[CrazyLazy]

I am not in an expert in the area by any means but I had a similar problem with this in IE before. Try adding the code "display: inline;" to the #right in your css. So it would be,

#right {
float: right;
width: 150px;
display: inline;
background: #999999;}

Hope that fixes for you, I could be totally wrong on this though.

 

[Alex]

just a note, IE6 (and IE in general) calculates widths differently so you gotta keep that in mind... in fact, after years of designing for FF and doing IE hacks im thinking of just designing for IE 😛 saves me the trouble later ....

 

[Crusty]

First thing you need to fix is that you specify a document type but your code fails to validate against it.

http://validator.w3.org/check?...doctype=Inline&group=0

 

[bluestrobe]

Originally posted by: Crusty
First thing you need to fix is that you specify a document type but your code fails to validate against it.

http://validator.w3.org/check?...doctype=Inline&group=0

I got into an argument over this in another thread. Most of the errors are from scripts and code for the widgets. Removing all of those doesn't change the page errors in IE6. The CSS code (probably more closer to the problem) validates fine.

 

[sourceninja]

Originally posted by: alex
just a note, IE6 (and IE in general) calculates widths differently so you gotta keep that in mind... in fact, after years of designing for FF and doing IE hacks im thinking of just designing for IE 😛 saves me the trouble later ....

Then you get to do hacks for safari, firefox, IE7, etc. Much easier to design to standards, then you just need to fix IE6 (IE7 works much closer to standards and hopefully IE8 will be even better).