Works in FF but not in IE - help please

**gwmbox** · 06-18-2008, 12:11 AM

Hi Guys

I have a layout that I have derived from the CSS templates found on this site and have combined a few to come up with the following, It appears to work very well in FF 2/3 but not in IE. Can you please help me work out why it is not working in IE and help fix my code.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Dynamic Drive: CSS Liquid Layout #2.1- (Fixed-Fluid)</title>
<style type="text/css">

body{
margin:0;
padding:0;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

b{font-size: 110%;}
em{color: red;}

#pagewrapper {
	width:75%;
}

#topsection{
background: #EAEAEA;
height: 90px; /*Height of top section*/
}

#topsection h1{
margin: 0;
padding-top: 15px;
}

#contentwrapper{
float: left;
width: 100%;
}

#contentcolumn{
margin-left: 22%; /*Set left margin to LeftColumnWidth*/
}

#leftcolumn{
float: left;
width: 22%; /*Width of left column*/
margin-left: -100%;
background: #C8FC98;
}

#footer{
clear: left;
width: 100%;
background: black;
color: #FFF;
text-align: center;
padding: 4px 0;
}

#footer a{
color: #FFFF80;
}

.innertube {
margin: 10px; /*Margins for inner DIV inside each column (to provide padding)*/
margin-top: 0;
}

#bcontentwrapper {
float: left;
width: 100%;
}

#bcontentcolumn {
margin-right: 33%; /*Set right margin to RightColumnWidth*/
}

#brightcolumn {
float: left;
width: 33%; /*Width of right column in pixels*/
margin-left: -33%; /*Set left margin to -(RightColumnWidth) */
background: #FDE95E;
}

#ccontentwrapper{
float: left;
width: 100%;
margin-left: -33%; /*Set left margin to -(RightColumnWidth)*/
}

#ccontentcolumn{
margin: 0 33% 0 33% /*Set margin to 0 (LeftColumnWidth) 0 (RightColumnWidth)*/
}

#cleftcolumn{
float: left;
width: 33%; /*Width of left column in percentage*/
margin-left: -33%; /*Set left margin to -(LeftColumnWidth)*/
background: #C8FC98;
}

#crightcolumn{
float: left;
width: 33%; /*Width of right column in pixels*/
background: #FDE95E;
}

#maincontainer {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
/*** Temporary text filler function. Remove when deploying template. ***/
var gibberish=["This is just some filler text", "Welcome to Dynamic Drive CSS Library", "Demo content nothing to read here"]
function filltext(words){
for (var i=0; i<words; i++)
document.write(gibberish[Math.floor(Math.random()*3)]+" ")
}
</script>

</head>
<body>
<div id="pagewrapper">
	<div id="topsection">
		<div class="innertube"><h1>CSS Liquid Layout #2.1- (Fixed-Fluid)</h1>
		</div>
	</div>
	<div id="contentwrapper">
		<div id="contentcolumn">
			<div id="maincontainer">
				<div id="bcontentwrapper">
					<div id="bcontentcolumn">
						<div class="innertube"><b>Content Column: <em>Fluid</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(45)</script>
						</div>
					</div>
				</div>
				<div id="brightcolumn">
					<div class="innertube"><b>Right Column: <em>200px</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(14)</script>
					</div>
				</div>
			</div>
			<div id="maincontainer">
				<div id="ccontentwrapper">
					<div id="ccontentcolumn">
						<div class="innertube"><b>Content Column: <em>Fluid</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(45)</script>
						</div>
					</div>
				</div>
				<div id="cleftcolumn">
					<div class="innertube"><b>Left Column: <em>20%</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(20)</script>
					</div>
				</div>
				<div id="crightcolumn">
					<div class="innertube"><b>Right Column: <em>180px</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(15)</script>
					</div>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>
	<div id="leftcolumn">
		<div class="innertube"><b>Left Column: <em>200px</em></b> <script type="text/javascript">filltext(15)</script>
		</div>
	</div>
	<div id="footer"><a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/">Dynamic Drive CSS Library</a>
	</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Your help in teaching me by advising what I have done wrong so I can understand it and learn from it will be appreciated.

Cheers

**gwmbox** · 06-18-2008, 04:24 AM

Ok got a work around by setting actual widths and all is swell, however if anyone has a way to do the above all fluid please let me know.

Thanks

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