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> Hi All,
>
> I'm building another site, trying to uses as few tables
> as I can. I've hit a bit of a snag, which is that on this
> design:-
>
> http://www.mfhughes.com/ktest/deutsch.htm
>
> If you look on text of the first full paragraph (in IE,
> - it works properly in Mozilla and Opera) you can see that
> the text above a certain point is indented and below is not
> indented, (only by a few pixels). This occurs at the same
> point on the screen where the gif on the left ends. The float:left
> of the gif's container div is affecting the content div in
> IE only for some reason. Arrgggghh!
>
> Has anyone any suggestions? I've trie using position:absolute
> with left: 0px on the gif's container div, and this solves the
> problem, but makes aother problems elsewhere, namely that the
> table across the bottom (the copyright one) can end up under/over one of

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> columns in certain situations, (such as those where the side columns
> are long and the content is short) which is why I'd used float
> in the first place.
>
> Any suggestions, fixes, workarounds or even flames for missing
> something obvious (with solution!) are welcome.
>

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> http://www.mfhughes.com/ktest/deutsch.htm

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> If you look on text of the first full paragraph (in IE,
> - it works properly in Mozilla and Opera) you can see that
> the text above a certain point is indented and below is not
> indented, (only by a few pixels).

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> Thanks to both people who responded,

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> I'll have a look at the files, they look like they will sort out my
> problems.

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> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Michael Hughes blurted out to the entire usenet
> readership:
>
>
> We don't readily know who they were, nor what they suggested to you.
>
>
> That's nice. If your Usenet postings are to be useful, I'd like to
> suggest to you that would be better if you would adhere to normal
> netiquette, by following-up to the postings with a minimal relevant
> quote to set the context, and then tell the readership to what extent
> that relevant quote proved to be helpful to the tasks. In that way we
> can all leverage on your experience.
>
> "yours for a better Usenet" IMHO.

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>
> "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@ph.gla.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.53.0311201003050.27584@ppepc56.ph.gla.ac.uk...
>
> This solved his problem, Alan. It's my post of the 19th:
>
>
> I've made only the changes necessary to solve your immediate problem.
> Basically, you need to be using percentages instead of pixels in your
> styles.
>
> See http://www.granatedit.com/michaelhughes.html.
>

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