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From: Al Sparber
Date: Jun 21, 2006 10:20PM

From: "Amanda Penrose" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

> Hullo
> Not sure if this is the right place to ask but I've noticed
> something
> weird in IE and wondered if anyone knew how to fix it.
> If an image is too wide for my content div, IE shifts the image down
> below my navigation div and puts a whole lot of space above it.
> Case in point:
> http://union.rmit.edu.au/fitness/careers/index.html
> If you open this page in IE (I'm using 6 on a PC) and resize the
> window
> (if you need to) so that the image is too wide for the content area,
> you'll see what I mean.
> Any suggestions?

That's the way CSS-positioned web pages work. More modern browsers
will not drop the image, but will still make the page "ugly" as
content that is too wide for a DIV will pour out the right edge. I
would approach this by setting your image as a background, like this:

http://www.projectseven.com/testing/customers/aim/

HTH

Al Sparber - PVII
http://www.projectseven.com
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