Comments on: Internet Explorer combination float bug

By: Olly

Olly — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:54:08 +0000

@Nick - That example has the central column after the main content, which is quite the opposite of what I want ;-)

Your site uses absolute positioning for the sidebars, which causes me problems. I probably should have put this in the blog post, but in this case I needed the footer to clear all three columns, regardless of the content.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:13:59 +0000

You don’t need negative margins to achieve the layout you want yet still publish the main content text before the two sidecolumns.

Look at my site with CSS turned off and you’ll see what I mean.

Can’t remember where I learnt the trick, but here’s another example… http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/css-3col-layout/

By: matt

matt — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:40:21 +0000

maths sucks
I try to make everything have a wide enough bit of whitespace so any maths errors isn’t obvious.. of course not always idea.

By: Olly

Olly — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:27:24 +0000

I think the Firefox gap is a slight rounding error (could be in their maths or mine) - I can live with that. The Opera ones are a bit more serious though - a good 10-20px :(

By: Weon

Weon — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:35:25 +0000

“There are some slight layout issues (gaps between columns) in Opera 9.02”

Also in FFox 1.5 - a small gap between the middle and right hand columns. Apart from that, sterling work chap.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:23:08 +0000

and if we do that well maybe we can do Microsoft too :)

By: matt

matt — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:22:38 +0000

I discovered that double margin thing when working on SCUK, took me all day to track that sucker down (ok maybe an hour), can we just bomb Miscrosoft?