CSS Frames problems with IE

**dreadedman** · 11-13-2008, 04:21 AM

1) Script Title:
CSS Left and Top Frames Layout
2) Script URL (on DD):
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/la...frames-layout/
3) Describe problem:

I have used something like this script to create a css frame layout, but with an extra footer.
It works correctly on everything except for IE 6+, where the padding value for the left (126 in this case) also makes IE render the padding on the right with the same value.
* html body{ /*IE6 hack*/
padding: 93px 0 13px 126px;
}

Here is my html:

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>TESTING</title>
<link href="main_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!--[if IE 7]>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="main_style_ie7.css" type="text/css">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 6]>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="main_style_ie6.css" type="text/css">
<![endif]-->


</head>
<body >
<!--  TOP NAV -->
<div id="framecontentTop">TOP FRAME</div>

<!-- SIDE NAV -->
<div id="framecontentLeft">LEFT FRAME</div>

<!-- MAIN CONTENT -->
<div id="contentArea" style="top:83px;">MAIN Content.The top margin is set by SSI.</div>

<!-- FOOTER -->
<div id="footer">Footer</div>

</body>
</html>

I have a css file for most, then an extra one for the ie fixes that only ie sees and uses. Here's the general one:

Code:

/* 
	WORK iT ONLINE Version 2.0 Members CSS
	Created by Rhys Stephens 31st October 2008
	Copyright WORK iT Services Pty Ltd, Australia
	
*/
html {
	overflow:hidden;
}

body{
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	border: 0;
	overflow: hidden;
	height: 100%; 
	max-height: 100%; 
	font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#framecontentLeft {
	position: fixed;
	top: 83px;
	left: 0px;
	width: 126px; /*Width of left frame div*/
	height: 100%;
	overflow: hidden; /*Disable scrollbars. Set to "scroll" to enable*/
	background-color: #3C3B3B;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	background-image:url(../../images/sub_nav_bg.jpg);
	background-repeat:repeat-x;
	background-position:top;
}
#framecontentTop {
	position: fixed;
	left: 0px;
	right: 0px;
	width: auto;
	top: 0px;
	height: 83px;
	overflow: hidden;
	background-image:url(../../images/spacer.jpg);
	background-position:bottom;
	background-repeat:repeat-x;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
}
#framecontentFilter {
	position:fixed;
	left:126px;
	right:0px;
	top:83px;
	background-color:#3C3B3B;
	width:auto;
	overflow:visible;
	z-index:10;
	font-size:0.6em;
	margin:0;
}
#contentArea {
	position:fixed;
	left: 126px;
	bottom: 15px;
	right:0;
	overflow:auto;
}
#footer {
	position:absolute;
	left:0;
	bottom:0px;
	overflow:hidden;
	background-color:#3C3B3B;
	color:#FFFFFF;
	width:100%;
	font-size:0.6em;
	text-align:right;
	height:15px;
	margin:0 auto;
}

p {
	margin-top:0px;
}
dt {
	font-size:1em;
	color:#C50C09;
	font-weight:bold;
}
dd{
	margin-left:25px;
	margin-bottom:20px;
}
dl {
	margin-left:20px;
}
a {
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#C50C09;
}
a:hover {
	text-decoration:underline;
}
ul {
	margin:0;
}

/* The main content sizes */
#contentArea {
	font-size:8pt;
}
.innertube {
	margin: 15px;
}
.heading {
	margin:15px;
	color:#C50C09;
	font-size:1.3em;
	font-weight:bold;
}
.subheading {
	color:#C50C09;
	font-size:1.1em;
	font-weight:bold;
}
/* END */
#nav {
	float:right;
}
form,table {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
}
#logo {
	float:left;
}
/* MAIN NAV */
ul#menu {
	background-image:url(../../images/nav_left.jpg);
	background-repeat:repeat-x;
	background-position:left top;
	position:relative;
	top:40px;
	bottom:0px;
	padding:0;
	padding-left:3px;
	margin:0;
	list-style-type:none;
	display:table;
	right:100px;
	text-align:center;
}
ul#menu li {
	display:table-cell;
	height:43px;
	width:106px;
	padding:0px;
	margin:0px;
	text-align:center;
}
ul#menu a {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	margin: 0px;
	padding:0px;
	padding-top:12px;
	height:43px;
	width:106px;
	background-image:url(../../images/nav_up.jpg);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	display:inline-block;
	font-size:0.8em;
	text-decoration:none;
}
ul#menu a:hover {
	color:#C50C09;
}
ul#menu a.active{
	color:#FFFFFF;
	background-image:url(../../images/nav_down.jpg);
	cursor:default;
}

/* SECOND LEVEL MENU */
ul#subMenu {
	margin-left:5px;
	margin-top:5px;
	padding:0;
	list-style-type:none;
}
ul#subMenu a {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	margin: 0px;
	height:21px;
	width:117px;
	background-image:url(../../images/sub_nav_up.jpg);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	padding-left:5px;
	font-size:0.7em;
	display:block;
	padding-top:3px;
	padding-bottom:0px;
	text-decoration:none;
}
ul#subMenu a:hover {
	color:#C50C09;
}
ul#subMenu a.active {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	background-image:url(../../images/sub_nav_down.jpg);
	cursor:default;
}

/* THIRD LEVEL MENU */
ul#subMenu ul {
	margin:0;
	margin-left:17px;
	margin-right:3px;
	padding:0;
	list-style-type:none;
}
ul#subMenu ul li a {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	margin: 0px;
	height:14px;
	width:100px;
	background-image:url(../../images/third_level_up.jpg);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	padding-left:5px;
	font-size:0.6em;
	line-height:0.9em;
	display:block;
	text-decoration:none;
}
ul#subMenu ul li a:hover {
	color:#C50C09;
}
ul#subMenu ul li a.active {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	background-image:url(../../images/third_level_down.jpg);
	cursor:default;
}
/* END  */

/* FORTH LEVEL MENU */
ul#subMenu ul ul {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	margin-left:17px;
	list-style-type:none;
}
ul#subMenu ul li ul li a {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	margin: 0px;
	height:14px;
	width:83px;
	background-image:url(../../images/forth_level_up.jpg);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	padding-left:5px;
	font-size:0.6em;
	line-height:0.8em;
	display:block;
	text-decoration:none;
}
ul#subMenu ul li ul li a:hover {
	color:#C50C09;
}
ul#subMenu ul li ul li a.active {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	background-image:url(../../images/forth_level_down.jpg);
	cursor:default;
}
/* END  */


#info {
	position:absolute;
	padding-right:10px;
	padding-top:7px;
	font-size:0.7em;
	right:0px;
	top:0px;
	display:inline;
	text-align:right;
	overflow:hidden;
}
#logout {
	position:absolute;
	margin:0px;
	padding:0px;
	right:0px;
	bottom:0px;
	float:right;
	height:43px;
	width:100px;
	display:block;
	top:40px;
	text-align:center;
}
#logout a {
	background-image:url(../../images/logout_up.jpg);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	height:43px;
	width:100px;
	display:block;
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#FFFFFF;
	font-size:0.8em;
	padding-top:12px;
}
#logout a:hover {
	color:#C50C09;
}
.hidden {
	visibility:visible;
}
.message {
	color:#FFFFFF;
	background-color:#C50C09;
	font-size:0.9em;
	text-align:center;
}

@media print {
	#framecontentLeft {
		visibility:hidden;
	}
	#framecontentTop {
		visibility:hidden;
	}
	#framecontentFilter {
		visibility:hidden;
	}
	#footer {
		visibility:hidden;
	}
	#contentArea {
		margin:0;
		border:0;
		top:0;
		left:0;
		font-size:5pt;
	}
	#content {
		margin:0;
		border:0;
		top:0 !important;
		left:0;
	}
	.hidden {
		visibility:hidden;
	}
}

and the extra for ie:

Code:

#framecontentLeft {
	position:absolute !important;
}
#framecontentTop {
	position:absolute !important;
}
#framecontentFilter {
	position:absolute;
}
#footer {
	position:absolute !important;
}
#contentArea {
	position:fixed;
	overflow:auto;
}
* html body {
	padding-top:93px;
	padding-bottom:15px;
	/*padding-left:126px;*/
	padding-right:0px;
}
* html #contentArea {
	height:100%;
	width:100%;
}
* html framecontentTop {
	width:100%;
}

I can't figure out how to get it to work.

Thanks in advance,

Rhys

**shlajfka** · 11-13-2008, 07:13 PM

Hello. I had the same problem, but in my case, header and footer fixed. Ypu should now, that IE6 has many bugs. create a CSS style just for IE6, and in the head section of your page iput

Code:

<!--[if  IE 6]>
<link href="yourstyle/folder/styleIE6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</style>
<![endif]-->

this whould help

p.s. In your css style you have more than one fixed positions, make top left and bottom absolute.. and the content fixed, save it like i6style , and imput the code for calling style for ie6

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