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css problem and.... mac ie5

Discussion in 'CSS' started by stuw, Jul 19, 2005.

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    I have a css problem that is driving me nuts:

    It's a css layout with floated columns, the floats all have widths assigned, and I'm using a commenting trick to hid non ie mac css, but I still can't seem to get the layout correct for mac ie5

    http://daycummins.evolution1.co.uk/

    Any help would be greatly appreciated
     
    stuw, Jul 19, 2005 IP
  2. tflight

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    I'd normally be the last person in the world to suggest this, but what percentage of your visitors are using mac ie5? On one of my mac related sites ie5 represents less than one tenth of one percent of my visitors.

    Personally since your HTML validates and your CSS validates (great job!) I wouldn't worry about it unless your website has a higher than average number of people that are using mac ie5.
     
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    The client only has macs.

    Otherwise I would just ignore it.
     
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    Hello.

    Your problem here is that your contentWrapper has no height.
    Try giving div#footer a height of 10px and see if this makes a difference.
     
    rossriley, Jul 21, 2005 IP
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    Cheers Rossriley, I'll give that a go. Although I have to admit my end solution was to use browser detection and serve them up a table based layout instead....
     
    stuw, Jul 21, 2005 IP
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    You shouldn't need to do this. Although Mac ie can be problematic, there is only a few things that trip it up. Floats being the main problem.

    You can hide rules from it using the commented backslash hack to feed it with different values, and normally you can get it looking acceptable without the hassle of browser detection.

    Hopefully another year or so and these older machines should begin to disappear!!
     
    rossriley, Jul 21, 2005 IP