Width of main container shrinks in IE7

kanjigirl · #1 07-18-2007, 03:42 PM

Whatever happens to be showing in my main container tends to shrink in IE7 and show up fine in Firefox. Here's an example - do a search and look at the results in IE7 and FF. There's a big white space to the left of the IE7 results.

http://www.parallaxwebdesign.com/projects/timbercreek/xcart/home.php

I can't see where this is coming in, although I know that on the subcategory pages when I added a long product description the spaced disappeared and it looked just like the FF page. Any suggestions? I'd like it to stay at 100% width no matter what the content happens to be.

GLS2 · #2 07-28-2007, 03:04 AM

I'm having formatting issues as well - sometimes the program will randomly change font sizes on my pages (different sizes on same page), although I've called them out specifically when building them. Any ideas?

carpeperdiem · #3 07-28-2007, 04:55 AM

GLS2 -- PLEASE do not hijack a thread. The original question was about main container and whitespace... but you hijacked this thread to double post about your font size issue -- please don't do this!

GLS2 · #4 07-29-2007, 02:13 AM

Sorry, my intention wasn't to hijack the thread. I thought the problem described was similar to mine - then I thought to get a response I should start a new thread. I'll be more careful in the future.

kanjigirl · #5 08-09-2007, 01:15 PM

I figured this out - add a div of appropriate width around the main table in dialog.tpl, and IE6 and 7 will show page content of the corrrect width. Hope this helps someone else...

balinor · #6 08-09-2007, 04:58 PM

My life would be SO much easier if IE didn't exist. Perhaps some day Microsoft will actually build something that adheres to web standards. It is unfortunate that there need to be so many hacks to get things to work correctly. I had hoped IE 7 would be an improvement, but no such luck.

kanjigirl · #7 08-09-2007, 05:15 PM

Actually, about 80% of the time I find that my XHTML plays very nicely with IE7. It's by no means great, but it's a big improvement over IE6. I have much less need to make conditional comments for 7.

balinor · #8 08-09-2007, 05:23 PM

Oh it is definitely better, but you'd think after all the time between releases they could at least get the thing to understand CSS1 standards