Width not as wide in IE5 why... is it a padding issue

[mumford1]

Hi

Could somebody please take a look at this http://www.omegadm.co.uk/test.htm

Why does the outer white border not measure its specified pixels in IE5 its fine in NS 6 and IE6 (780px)

If you take a screenshot and measure them you will see.

Thanks for any help

Stylesheet in html doc.

[BenANFA]

This because of the Box Model Error in IE5.x

Basically in IE6, NS6/7 Opera and Mozilla the width of an element is it's contents width with border and padding on top of that, as it is specified.

However in IE5 a bug means that width is taken to be the width of the content plus padding plus borders. That means if you set the width on an element and give it a 7 pixel border in IE5 it will appear 14 pixels narrow than you expect (7 on the left and 7 on the right).

See Tantek's Box Model Hack for information on how to correct it.

[mumford1]

Thanks for the response

I thought I read about this some where