I stumbled upon the strangest thing today. Actually it’s not strange at all because it have to do with IE.
I was making a page with a sidebar on the right that have a background color all the way down to the footer. You webdesigner know what I mean.
Anyways, it looked good in firefox and so I whent over to IE to fix whatever problem that probably would be there. The problem was that I could not find the sidebar in IE at all. I tried to change all kinds of stuff to see if some of it could make the sidebar at least show up, but no, that sidebar was nowhere to be found. I tried to change the move the sidebar before the content in the html and after it (don’t remember where I had it first. work fine in firefox either way!).
I tried to change the position: relative to position: aboslute and use that method, but nothing seemed to work. So then I tried to look for other techniques, like the holy grail (is it several of them?). I found one I hadn’t seen before and thought I just try it to see if maybe it would work.
Halfway trough changing my markup I find that the sidebar have upped up in IE, so I step by step remove the div’s I have put in and find out that the only thing that I had to do to make IE show the sidebar was to add div around the content div and the sidebar div. Yeah, go figure!;)
This is very far from any great discovery, but for me it was a interesting thing to experience. This shows again how much stress IE can bring to a webdeveloper.
The html for the site I worked with can be found here and the css here.