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RE: CSS sliding

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From: HAA
Date: Jun 16, 2005 4:36AM

Even though I have used percentages rather than absolute widths in the
floats? I try to avoid absolute settings where possible when it comes to
text out of personal preferences.

At 11:31 16/06/2005, Patrick Lauke wrote:
>Without even looking at it, I'll say it's a float issue.
>When there's not enough space for the two floats to sit side
>by side, the second float drops down to accommodate. Older versions
>of IE are notorious for it, particularly when the width of the
>individual floats is too tight.
>
>Looking at your CSS now, no time to test, but I'd try making
>the #leftnav just a tad smaller, and explicitly setting
>padding of 0 for #leftnav, #contents, #innerdiv.
>
>Patrick
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