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IE for Mac = bad display
My blog (at www.germaris.com/blog) has a bad display when seen with IE 5.2.3 (5815.1) for MacOS X.
Instead of having, under the header, the sidebox (left) and the content container (right) displayed side by side, it displays the sidebox (left) then, under, the content container (right).
How can I solve this problem?
Would you please also tell me if the problem exists when using IE on Windows Platforms?
(I don’t have any PC running Windows…)
Many thanks in advance for your replies!
Last edited by Germaris (2005-11-23 16:58:19)
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#2 2005-11-24 08:25:24
- Niconemo
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Re: IE for Mac = bad display
It’s a layout and CSS issue, you’re in the wrong place ;-)
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#3 2005-11-24 08:39:05
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Re: IE for Mac = bad display
IE 5.2 for Mac is essentially a dead product. Have a look at Microsoft’s MSN website in IE 5.2 and you get a message saying “use another browser”…
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> Vitruvius wrote:
> IE 5.2 for Mac is essentially a dead product. Have a look at Microsoft’s MSN website in IE 5.2 and you get a message saying “use another browser”…
Sorry, but I never got such a message (see the download page) and as a Mac user I perfectly know that IE 5.2 for Mac is “dead” (outdated would be more appropriate…) but it is the “latest release” of IE for Mac.
Many Mac Users are stuck with it and I must set up my blog to be seen by ANY viewer…
Thanks anyway for your participation and sorry for the wrong choice of forum :-)
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This is likely a problem that can occur with Win IE6 if you aren’t careful. I don’t have a Mac so I can’t view the problem however if you go into your CSS and look for #sidebar and #content you will see that they both have a width attribute. The normal reason for the problem you are seeing is that the browser is adding the 2 widths together and coming up with a figure above 100%, so it thinks there isn’t enough room for both to fit side by side and drops one of them down below the other. There are specific reasons for this apparent bit of bad mathematics which I won’t go into here. Just try reducing the width of one or other or both of those selector I mentioned above. Just do it 1% or 1px at a time and see what happens.
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Fully understood Stuart. Thanks.
But I know that the dimensions are set up to 28% and 68% so I can’t explain why IE wrongly interpret this…
Last edited by Germaris (2005-11-24 12:49:14)
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Well I can but I’m just going to say that Bill Gates can’t add up. ;)
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For what it’s worth, Mac has been shipping IE with their OS for a long time … but they stopped. Tiger has no IE. You have to go track it down and download it.
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It is a known bug with IE5 Mac. The problem is the clear:both on your div#contentBox. This causes the floated boxes to ‘forget’ to float correctly. Remove that, and instead insert a clearing element before that div, or use another float-containing technique, such as easy clearing, and IE Mac will be happy.
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Blimey! Where does that “easy clearing” title come from then? Is this a major headache? I mean, how many Mac/IE5 users are there out there?
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Much more than you can ever imagine !!! :-)
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> thebombsite wrote:
Blimey! Where does that “easy clearing” title come from then? Is this a major headache? I mean, how many Mac/IE5 users are there out there?
There are many floating clearing/float containing techniques around. And that ‘easy clearing’ is one, that is quite easy to implement. Depending on the whole structure of the document, there might be other solutions as well, such as using display:table or overflow:hidden. See those quick demos of mine. We are working on a longer article on the subject, when time (rare commodity, these days) allows.
And yes, there are still quite a few IE 5 Mac users around, depending on your audience (up to 20% of Mac users on some of my sites).
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