I thought IE6 was supposed to have "the correct box model"

[morrie]

What am I doing wrong here?

For some reason, I am having to adjust 135 pixels between Firefox and IE6. I though IE6 used the "correct box model", or am I missing something here?

Is there a hack or fix for this?:

my site


The css:

body {
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	background-image: url(/images/purple_paper_bg.jpg);
	clear: none;
	float: none;
}
.header {
	height: 440px;
	width: 680px;
	background-image: url(/images/blur_bg3b.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	float: none;
	clear: both;
}
.body_box {
	height: 380px;
	width: 680px;
}
.footer {
	height: 0px;
	width: 680px;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
	font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 0.65em;
	clear: both;
}
.toolBAR {
	float:left;
	background:no-repeat left top;
	font-size:x-small;
	line-height:normal;
	padding: 5px;
	text-align: left;
	margin: 13px 0px 0px;
	height: 33px;
	width: 400px;
	vertical-align: bottom;
}
.toolBAR ul {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	list-style:none;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-family: "Futura Bk BT", Arial, Helvetica;
	color: #CCCCCC;
	text-align: center;
	width: 680px;
}
.toolBAR li {
	float:left;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	background-image: url(../Images/Rtab2.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: right top;
	line-height: 12px;
	vertical-align: bottom;
	width: 133px;
 }
.toolBAR a {
	display:block;
	background-image: url(../images/Ltab.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: left top;
	padding: 5px 15px;
 }
h1 {
	font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size: 40px;
	line-height: 40px;
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: bolder;
	font-variant: normal;
	text-transform: capitalize;
}
.h1 {
	font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size: 40px;
	line-height: 40px;
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: bolder;
	font-variant: normal;
	text-transform: capitalize;
}
.body_copy {
	font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 20px;
	letter-spacing: 0.025em;
	word-spacing: .025em;
	white-space: normal;
	display: block;
	font-weight: normal;
}
.r_column {
	margin: 70px 0px 5px 115px;
	height: 293px;
	width: 382px;
	border: 0px none;
	float: left;
}
.r_column2 {
	margin: 75px 0px 5px 186px;
	height: 293px;
	width: 176px;
	border: .25px solid #FF00FF;
	background-color: #FFFF00;
	padding: 0px;
}
.body_copy_bold {

	font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	line-height: 20px;
	letter-spacing: 0.025em;
	word-spacing: .025em;
	white-space: normal;
	display: block;
	font-weight: bold;
}
.header_orders {
	height: 440px;
	width: 680px;
	background-image: url(/images/web_bg_orders.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.r_column_orders {
	margin: 70px auto 5px;
	width: 500px;
	border: 0px none;
	background-position: top;
}
.body_copy_orders {
	font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 20px;
	letter-spacing: 0.025em;
	word-spacing: 0.025em;
	white-space: normal;
	display: inline;
	font-weight: normal;
}
.headline_copy_orders {
	font-family: humanist, sans-serif, arial;
	font-size: 16px;
	line-height: 20px;
	letter-spacing: 0.025em;
	word-spacing: 0.025em;
	white-space: normal;
	display: block;
	font-weight: bolder;
}
.body_copy_orders_bold {
	font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 20px;
	letter-spacing: 0.025em;
	word-spacing: .025em;
	white-space: normal;
	display: block;
	font-weight: bold;
}
.body_copy_orders_bold2 {
	font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 20px;
	letter-spacing: 0.05em;
	word-spacing: 0.05em;
	white-space: normal;
	display: block;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-align: center;
}
.form_center {
	background-position: center;
}

[stymiee]

IE6 does use the correct box model in standards compliance mode. Not in quirks mode. But IE also has other bugs that may be causing this.

(Please [ code][ /code] when posting code. Thank you).

[drhowarddrfine]

I'm too lazy to think about this but you have two significant errors in your html. Validate.

[morrie]

I fail to see the 'significance' of those errors to this problem, but the site now validates xhtml transitional, and the problem remains.

[motion-ex]

yeah i can see what you talkin about, i am sittin in front of xhtml 1.0 valid layout with apropriate doctype etc... and still IE6 is not rendering the way it should.. FF does of course renders it perfectly... i see contradictory info on that topic actually some says no problem with box model some says the opposite...!

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="eng">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=diso-8859-1" />

....
<link rel="stylesheet" href="themes/SoulJointV2/style/styleNN.css" type="text/css" />

</head>

<body>

<div id="global">
<div id="header">En tete Logo</div>

<div id="advertisement">google ads</div>

<div id="mainmenu">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetuer
adipiscing elit. Mauris condimentum libero at eros. Fusce justo.
Vivamus magna pede, laoreet et, mattis bibendum, congue ut, est. Morbi
bibendum quam a purus. Sed sed mi. Donec quis pede at nisl congue
euismod. Vivamus egestas cursus pede.</div>

<div id="leftcol">
<!-- [left-blocks] -->
</div>
<div id="maincol">
<div>
<div id="editorialblocks">
<div>
<div class="editorial"><!-- [area1-blocks] --></div>

<div class="editorial"><!-- [area2-blocks] -->
</div>

<div class="editorial"><!-- [area3-blocks] -->
</div>

</div>

<div id="bottomedit">
<div class="editorial"><!-- [area4-blocks] --></div>

<div class="editorial"><!-- [area5-blocks] -->
</div>

<div class="editorial"> <!-- [area6-blocks] -->
</div>

</div>

</div>

<div id="newsfeed"><!-- [right-blocks] -->
</div>

</div>

<div id="communityblocks">
<div class="community"><!-- [area7-blocks] --></div>

<div class="community"><!-- [area8-blocks] -->
</div>

<div class="community">
<!-- [area9-blocks] -->
</div>

</div>

</div>

<div id="storelounge">
<div id="storeloungeleft"><!-- [area10-blocks] -->
</div>

<div id="storeloungeright"><!-- [area11-blocks] -->
</div>

</div>
<hr class="separation" />
<p id="footer"><!-- [modules] -->
</p>
<hr class="separation" />
</div>

</body>
</html>

body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #516363;
color: black;
font-size: 10px;
font-family: verdana, serif;
}

h2 {
font-size: 12px;
}

h3,h4,h5,h6 {
font-size: 11px;
}

a :link, active
{color: #DA5D09;
 text-decoration: none;
 font-weight: bold;
}
 
a :hover
 {color: #308395;
 text-decoration: none
 font-weight: bold;
 }

a :visited
 {color: #73971B;
 text-decoration: none;
 font-weight: bold;
 }

#global { /* largeur général du document */
width: 750px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0 auto;
}

#header {
height: 50px;
background-color: #99A1A3;
color: white;
margin: 0;
}

#header img {
float: left;
}

#advertisement {
background-color: #73971B;
color: white;
margin: 0;
text-align: center;
}

#mainmenu {
background-color: #DA5D09;
color: white;
margin: 0;
}

#leftcol {
float: left;
width: 130px;
margin: 5px 10px 0px 10px;
}


.leftcoltitle {
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #73971B;
border: 1px solid #73971B;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
margin: 0;
}

.leftcolcontent {
border: 1px solid #73971B;
padding: 5px;
margin: 0;
}

#maincol {
margin-left: 150px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}


#editorialblocks {
float: left;
width: 460px;
}

.editorial {
float: left;
width: 143px;
margin: 5px 10px 0px 0px;
}

#bottomedit {
clear: both;
}

.edititle {
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #308395;
border: 1px solid   #308395;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
margin: 0;
}

.editcontent {
border: 1px solid   #308395;
padding: 5px;
margin: 0;
}

#newsfeed {
float: right;
width: 130px;
margin: 5px 10px 0px 0px;
}

.newsfeedtitle {
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #DA5D09;
border: 1px solid #DA5D09;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
margin: 0;
}

.newsfeedcontent {
border: 1px solid #DA5D09;
padding: 5px;
margin: 0;
}

#communityblocks {
clear: right;
}

.community {
float: left;
width: 190px;
margin: 5px 10px 0px 0px;
}

.cmntytitle {
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #DA5D09;
border: 1px solid #DA5D09;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
margin: 0;
}

.cmntycontent {
border: 1px solid #DA5D09;
padding: 5px;
margin: 0;
}

#storelounge {
clear: both;
width: 750px;
background-color: #308395;
}

#storeloungeleft {
float: left;
width: 360px;
margin: 5px 10px 0 10px;
}

#storeloungeright {
float: left;
width: 360px;
margin: 5px 10px 0 0;
}

.loungetitle {
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #308395;
border: 1px solid #308395;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
margin: 0;
}

.loungecontent {
border: 1px solid #308395;
padding: 5px;
}


.separation {
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}

#footer {
clear: both;
width: 730px;
margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;
background-color: #99A1A3;
}

.summarytitle {
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #308395;
border: 1px Solid  #308395;
margin: 0 10px 0 0;
padding: 5px;
}
 
.summarycontent {
border: 1px Solid  #308395;
padding: 5px;
margin: 0 10px 10px 0;

}


#articletitle {
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #308395;
border: 1px Solid  #308395;
margin: 5px 10px 0 0;
padding: 5px;
}
 
#articlecontent {
border: 1px Solid  #308395;
font-size: 11px;
margin: 0 10px 5px 0;
padding: 5px;
}