Inconsistency between Firefox and IE

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toasty2
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Inconsistency between Firefox and IE

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Yay, another IE and Firefox inconsistency...we sure don't have enough of those.

This is a little personal page I wrote and I thought I would have a sort of cool floating right navigation.
http://blake.randomresources.org/

In firefox the navigation floats to the right half-way over the content as it should, but in IE it pushes everything down.

Browsershots: http://browsershots.org/http://blake.ra ... urces.org/
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Post by matthijs »

If I were you I would place the sidebox inside the other one and use negative margin to pull it outside the box a little.

And be sure to read about the differences in box-model interpretation between modern browsers and IE-versions.
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Post by toasty2 »

Ok, but the only problem with that is the content on the left won't be diverted around the navigation, it will be partially under it.
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Post by matthijs »

toasty2 wrote:Ok, but the only problem with that is the content on the left won't be diverted around the navigation, it will be partially under it.
Do you have a picture of what you want to achieve? What is the difference between "diverted under the navigation" and "partially under it"?

Should it be two columns of boxes? Or, as I understood at first, should the sidebox be over the right edge partially?

As a sidenote: it's better to markup your text with p, headers with h1, h2, h3, h4, lists with ul and ol, etc.
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Post by toasty2 »

By text being diverted, I mean this: http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5530/layoutdl6.png

It goes around the navigation, your previous suggestion would make it go under the navigation.
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