[CSS] Layout problem: IE vs FF

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1

Hi,

I’m trying to make a small portfolio website.
Check it out here: :look: LINK
If you check it in Firefox you’ll see what I want to create and in IE it’s messed up :td:

CSS:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
#container {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #CCFF00;
	background-color: #333333;
	width: 200px;
	clear: none;
	float: left;
	border: 1px solid #CCFF00;
	text-align: left;
}
#box {
	width: 615px;
	padding: 20px 10px 10px 10px;
	background-color: #669900;
	border-right: 3px solid #333333;
	height: 100%;
}
.container_text {
	color: #CCFF00;
	margin: 2px;
	padding: 5px;
}
.item {
	padding-left: 25px;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
	color: #FFFFFF;
}
.container_header {
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #333333;
	background-color: #CCFF00;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-variant: small-caps;
	text-align: right;
	padding-right: 15px;
}
body {
	background-color: #333333;
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	background-image: url(bg.gif);
}
a {
	text-decoration: none;
	border-bottom: 1px solid;
	border-bottom-color: #FFFFFF;
}
a:link {
	color: #99FF00;
}
a:hover {
	color: #FFFFFF;
	border-bottom-color: #99FF00;
}
a:visited {
	color: #FFFFFF;
	background-color: #66CC00;
}
a:active {
	color: #99CC00;
}
#container2 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #CCFF00;
	background-color: #333333;
	width: 200px;
	clear: none;
	border: 1px solid #CCFF00;
	text-align: left;
	margin-left: 205px;
	float: none;
}
#box2 {
	float: left;
	width: 410px;
}
#container3 {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #CCFF00;
	background-color: #333333;
	width: 200px;
	clear: none;
	border: 1px solid #CCFF00;
	text-align: left;
	margin-left: 410px;
	float: none;
}

-->
</style>

Can someone give me some pointers? :crying: First time I’m using divs to layout a site…

2

sometimes with IE you have to specify the null values. So if you have margin-left set to 25, and thats all, in IE set all the others to 0.
IE doesnt think for itself like that. Supply all values even if it is 0.

3

I tried it like this:

padding: 20px 10px 0px 10px;

But nothing changed…

4

Positioned them absolute, now it works…