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strippy
21st October 07, 04:51 AM
at some point ie7 turned funky.

firefox loads fine, but but in ie7 my main content div drops below my float left.

Not sure why, but this happened after I created the navbar.


html
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.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>E-Com Solutions</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ecom.css" />

</head>

<body>

<div id="header">
<h1>Leading the way
<br />
to better solutions</h1>
</div>

<hr id="pain" />

<ul class="nav">

<li><a href="ecom.html" class="navbar">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="aboutus.html" class="navbar">About Us</a></li>
<li><a href="equipment.html" class="navbar">Equipment</a></li>
<li><a href="services.html" class="navbar">Services</a></li>
<li><a href="technology.html" class="navbar">Technology</a></li>

</ul>
<hr class="clear" />

<div id="industry">

<div id="ccinfo" class="sideleft">

<h3>Credit Cards</h3>

<p>
<span class="sidegroup1">Knowledge Base</span>
</p>

<p>
<a href="sidebar/creditcards/thebasics.html">The Basics</a>
<br />
<a href="sidebar/creditcards/interchange.html">Interchange Tables</a>
<br />
<a href="sidebar/creditcards/fees.html">Understanding Fees</a>
</p>

<p>
<span class="sidegroup1">Rules &amp; Regs</span>
</p>

<p>
<a href="sidebar/creditcards/compliance.html">Compliance</a>
<br />
<a href="sidebar/creditcards/security.html">Security Standards</a>
</p>

</div>

<div id="checkinfo" class="sideleft">

<h3>The Check World</h3>

<p>
<a href="sidebar/checkworld/problempaper.html">Problematic Paper</a>
<br />
<a href="sidebar/checkworld/acceptance.html">Proper Check Acceptance</a>
<br />
<a href="sidebar/checkworld/check21.html">Check 21</a>
</p>

</div>

<div id="newinfo" class="sideleft">

<h3>New &amp; Exciting</h3>

<p>
<a href="sidebar/new/terminal.html">Virtual Terminal</a>
<br />
<a href="sidebar/new/cash.html">Cash Advance</a>
<br />
<a href="sidebar/new/package.html">Ultimate Package</a>
</p>
</div>

</div>

<div id="main">
<p>
Main Content kjghllllllllllllllllllllllllll<br />
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hgkfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ff<br />
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</p>

</div>


</body>

</html>

css:
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body {

font: small/1.6em Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;

background-image: url(steel_background_2.gif);

width: 800px;
margin: auto;
}

#header {

margin: 5px 1px 1px 1px;
padding: 40px 10px 40px 350px;

background-color: rgb(28, 148, 157);
background-image: url(logos/E-ComSolutions_logo.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 10px center;

}

#stray {
margin: 0px 10px 0px 10px;
font-size: 1.25em;
}

ul.nav {
list-style-type: none;
padding-left: 0;
margin: 1px 0px 0px 1px;
width: 100%;
}

ul.nav a {
display: block;
width: 11.50em;
text-align: center;
border: 4px solid black;
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
line-height: 250%;
background-color: silver;
padding: 0px;
font: bold 100%/250% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
border-right-color: #666;
border-bottom-color: #333;
border-top-color: #DFDFDF;
border-left-color: #858585;

}

a.navbar:hover {
background: url(steel_background_2.gif);
}

ul.nav li {
float: left;
}

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

.clear {
clear: both;
}

#main {
width: 800px;
height: 1200px;

margin: -4px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 10px 0px;

background-color: rgb(28, 148, 157);

}


#industry {
width: 205px;
float: left;

margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;
padding: 10px;

}

.sideleft {
border: solid medium;
padding: 10px;
margin: 0px;

background-color: rgb(197, 197, 197);

}

.sidegroup1 {
font-size: 100%;
font-weight: bold;

margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

chrishirst
22nd October 07, 12:25 PM
put #industry inside #main