Menu issue on IE & content box not stretching

**moisea** · Jun 19, 2008 17:48

hello, I need help please with, first the menu bar which becomes bigger under IE
and also how to get the content to stretch all the way to the bottom/footer.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Coffee</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<style type="text/css">
html,body{margin:0;padding:0}
body{font: 76% arial,sans-serif;text-align:center; background:url(images/marble_bg.jpg);margin:40px 0;}
p{margin:0 10px 10px}
a{display:block;color: #006;padding:10px; text-decoration: none; color: #B43939;}
a:hover {text-decoration: underline; color: #FFFFFF;}
img {border:none}
div#header{position:relative}
div#header h1{height:150px;line-height:80px;margin:0;padding-left:10px;background:#FFF url(images/coffee_beans.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat; color: #79B30B}
div#header a{position:absolute;right:0;top:23px}
div#menu{min-height:20px; margin:0; padding:0; background:#a4b05c; color:#FFF; border-top: solid 4px #74182f;}
* html #menu {height:20px;}
div#container{text-align:left; background:#74182f}
div#content {line-height:1.4; background:#ece9ca;}
div#left{background:#74182f; color:#FFF}

div#footer{background:#a4b05c;color: #FFF; border-bottom: solid 4px #74182f;}
div#footer p{margin:0;padding:5px 10px}
div#footer a{display:inline;padding:0;color: #C6D5FD}

div#container{width:760px;margin:0 auto}
div#content{float:right;width:550px}
div#left{float:left;width:210px}

div#footer{clear:both;width:100%}


.menu {
      width: 100%;
      margin:  0;
      padding: 0 ;
      background: none;
	  list-style-type:none
	  }
.menu ul {
      margin: 0;
      padding: 0;
      list-style-type: none;
    }
.menu li {
      margin: 0;
      padding: 0;
      float: left;
      width: 20%;
      text-align: left;
    }
.menu a{
	  display:block;
	  padding: 5px 10px;
	  margin:0;
	  text-decoration:none;
	  }
.menu a:hover{
	  background:#663300;
	  color:#FFF;
	  }
</style>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"><h1>Header</h1></div>

<div id="menu">
<ul class="menu">
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Our Stores</a></li>
<li><a href="#">What's New</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Careers</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
<br clear="left">
</div>

<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content">
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</div>
</div>

<div id="left">

<!--<div id="latest" class="boxed">-->

			<h2 class="title">News</h2>
			<div class="content">
				<ul>
					<li>
						<h3>March 5, 2008</h3>
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					</li>

					<li>
						<h3>March 3, 2008</h3>
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					</li>
					<li>
						<h3>February 28, 2008</h3>
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					</li>
					<li>
						<h3>February 25, 2008</h3>
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					</li>
					<li>
						<h3>February 20, 2008</h3>

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					</li>
				</ul>
			</div>
		</div>

<!--</div>-->

<div id="footer"><p>The footer.</p></div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

can anyone help me with this please?
Many thanks.

**Erik J** · Jun 20, 2008 04:32

The big height in IE6 is caused by the clearing <br> initiating a textline under the list, and IE6 grows the div height to fit. I changed it to a div, just avoiding a break.

I think the menu will work with minor changes, e.g:

Code:

ul.menu {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style-type: none;
}
ul.menu li {
	float: left;
	width: 20&#37;;
	text-align: left;
}
ul.menu a{
	display:block;
	position: relative; /* for IE6 to hover on the whole box */
	padding: 5px 10px;
	text-decoration:none;
}
ul.menu a:hover{
	background:#663300;
	color:#FFF;
}
div.clear {
	clear: both;
	height: 0;
	font-size: 0; /* for IE6 to allow zero height */
}

HTML Code:

<div id="menu">
	<ul class="menu">
		<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Our Stores</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">What's New</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Careers</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
	</ul>
	<div class="clear"></div>
</div>

**Erik J** · Jun 20, 2008 04:52

... how to get the content to stretch all the way to the bottom/footer.

One possibility is to let the container take the background to fake the shortest column stretching down. In this case:

Code:

div#container{text-align:left; background:#ece9ca}
div#left{background:#74182f; color:#FFF}
div#content {line-height:1.4;}

**moisea** · Jun 20, 2008 06:40

Thanks very much Erik.

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