Internet Explorer…ignores width?

In IE6, the left and right sidebars (columns) are in their proper places below the header, but the middle column is *below* the two sidebars.

This often happens in IE if the column container has too much side margins — IE tends to do weird things with margins, and so the column won’t fit into the space it’s been assigned because IE says it’s larger than what you specified.

For this reason, I tend not to give containers (for example, divs) left/right margins if possible, but only padding.

You may have to go through the wonderful experience of learning how to deal with margins and IE. Otherwise, I’d put any margins on the sidebars rather than on the middle column.

… I hope that was intelligible. It’s been a l-o-n-g day.

For instance (and I haven’t looked at your CSS), you could try adding padding and the grey line to your sidebars, and slimmed the center column (that is, don’t give it margins), and see what happens.

Hmmm…I understand what you’re saying, but no matter what I make the margins, and what size I specify for the content column, it still remains the same width.

Another strange thing is that it only starts overflowing about half way down the sidebar. Could it be something to do with height?

I am having the same problem with the center column not starting until the side columns are finished…
*also wants help* heh… stupid i.e.