Re: From the anonymator: Firefox/IE7 tech question

It would help to know what kind of content is living in the expanded
divs - anything non-breaking, such as wide images, fixed width
tables, or long URLs? Long URLs in narrow columns can be especially
problematic in IE.

./s

On Nov 4, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Debra Goldentyer wrote:

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> Fellow web editors, please give me your input!
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> I am working on a website which works just fine in Firefox (of course)
> and until today it has worked correctly in IE7. But I was adding
> content today and two pages, and only two pages, are suffering from
> the
> "expanding box problem" according to my validator. Thing is, while
> there is a <div> which wraps the whole page and has a fixed width,
> there
> are no set widths for the internal <div>s and they are floated.
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> Why would this happen to only two pages when the whole site shares one
> stylesheet and I haven't manually changed anything style-wise on these
> pages, only the content? While I would like to write this off to IE
> gremlins, I need this to work. What do I do to fix this? And maybe
> more
> importantly, anyone have any ideas as to what I did to cause this?
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> Thanks.
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