Exasperated with IE - is there a list of workarounds anywhere?

[Philip Herlihy]

I spent the whole day yesterday trying to get a page to layout correctly in
IE. I wanted two columns to maintain a given proportion (25%, 75%) on a
page regardless of the browser width. Easy to do in Firefox and Opera, but
IE seems to have this thing about widths, even when I use a doctype to set
IE6 into "standards" mode. I tried several different ways of achieving this
(or something similar). Every time, Firefox and Opera agreed on how to lay
out my code, with IE6 the odd one out.

Is there a reference on the web anywhere where the various quirks and
workarounds for IE are documented?



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[Steve Pugh]

Re: Exasperated with IE - is there a list of workarounds anywhere?

"Philip Herlihy" <foof8501@herli hy.eu.veil.com> wrote:
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>I spent the whole day yesterday trying to get a page to layout correctly in
>IE. I wanted two columns to maintain a given proportion (25%, 75%) on a
>page regardless of the browser width. Easy to do in Firefox and Opera, but
>IE seems to have this thing about widths, even when I use a doctype to set
>IE6 into "standards" mode. I tried several different ways of achieving this
>(or something similar). Every time, Firefox and Opera agreed on how to lay
>out my code, with IE6 the odd one out.
>
>Is there a reference on the web anywhere where the various quirks and
>workarounds for IE are documented?[/color]

You can find details and workarounds for some of the commonest IE6
issues at http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html

Steve

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