CSS - Table Not Showing Correctly In Ie But Ok In Other Browsers

Hi

I wonder if anyone can help. I've been trying to tidy up the layout of my home page, and I'm pretty confused by the way that the header is behaving in both Firefox and Safari - the browsers I use on my Mac.

I've got screen shots which show it looking good on most Windows browsers, but for some reason, all the text is bunched up at the top when I look at it on the Mac.

This is a link to the page:

http://www.independentliving.co.uk/index1.shtml

And this is the relevant bit of the stylesheet:

div#header {
background-image: url("header.jpg");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
color: #FFFFFF;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top: 0;
width:780px;
height: 200px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
font-size: 0.8em;

}

#header .welcome {
text-align: left;
width: 700px;
padding-top: 90px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
color: #003366;
font-size: 0.8em;
}

p.welcome {
text-align: left;
width: 700px;
padding-top: 90px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
color: #003366;
font-size: 0.8em;
}

#header .slogan {
text-align: left;
width: 700px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
color: #003366;
font-size: 0.8em;
}

p.slogan {
text-align: left;
width: 700px
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
color: #003366;
}

If anyone has any ideas, I'd be really grateful. I know Mac is a minority platform, but as it's the one I use, I'm pretty keen to get it working!

Thanks

Frances

I am not literate in CSS at all. I can change numbers and so forth, but to write my own css I can not do. I am confused on why this page is showing incorrectly on some versions and correctly on others. I am not asking for the solution, just a suggestion on what I should be looking for. I want to learn this so I am not spending more time correcting things than I am now! My pc shows it displayed correctly, however, my client's doesnt. Her menu on the left is displayed well below everything else on the page. I have used this template from one of the free template sites and modified to fit our needs.
I hope I can contribute in other fields of this group some way.. and appreciate any assistance with this I can get!

Toni

CSS BELOW:
Code:

/* Globals */ html,body{margin:0;padding:0} body{font: 76% arial,sans-serif;text-align:center; background-color: #ccc; background-image:url(images/plaidbg.gif)} a{ color: #981793;padding:10px;}  /* Primary Divs */ div#header { height: 4em; color:#000; border-bottom: 2px solid #A9A9A9;} div#wrapper { margin-top: 5px; } div#container{text-align:left} div#content p{line-height:1.4} div#navigation{background:#FFFFAC} div#extra{background:#FFFFAC} div#footer{background: #FFFFAC;color: #000; border-top: 2px solid #A9A9A9; } div#footer p{margin:0;padding:5px 10px} div#container{width:700px;margin:0 auto; } div#bgwrap { background: #FFFFAC url(images/brushbg.gif); width: 800px; margin: 0 auto;} div#content{float:right;width:545px} div#calendar{float:inherit;width:inherit} div#navigation{float:left;width:150px} div#extra{float:left;clear:left;width:150px;} div#footer{clear:both;width:100%}  /* TABLES */  table {border: 2px solid #FFFF84; border-collapse:collapse; width:90%; margin-left: 3ex; } td {padding:3px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color:#000;} th {text-align:left;border: 1px solid #fff} thead th {color:#000; font-size:1.5em; background-color: #990 ; padding: 10px 6px} tbody th {color:#000; font-size:1.15em; background-color: #FFFF84 ; padding: 6px} tbody th.sub {font-size: .90em; color:#fff; background-color: #336; padding: 6px}  /* TEXT STYLES */ div#content a:link, div#content a:visited { padding:0; color:#600; text-decoration:none; border-bottom: 1px solid #FFFF84; } div#content a:hover {background-color: #990; color:#fff; } div#content h1 { font-size: 2em; color:#000; margin-top: 0;  text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;} div#content h2 { font-size: 2em; color: #000; line-height: 1.3em; letter-spacing: -1px;} div#content h3 { font-size: 1.5em; color: #990;} div#content h4 { font-size: 1.25em; color: #966;} div#content h5 {font-size: 1em; font-weight:bold;} div#content h1,h2,h3,h4,h5 {padding:0 5px 0px;} acronym {border-bottom: 1px dotted #966; cursor:help; }  form,submit { padding:0; margin:0; } /* removes extraneous padding around the form */ code { border: 1px dotted #FFFF84; background-color: #990; color:#fff; margin-left: 3ex;} blockquote { border: 1px solid #FFFF84; background-color: #990; color:#fff; margin: 3ex; font-style:italic;}  /* Horizontal Navigation Menu */ #header ul { margin:0; text-align: right; padding-top: 1.6em; padding-bottom:0;} #header ul li { list-style-type:none; display:inline;} #header ul li a:link, #header ul li a:visited { display:inline; padding-top: 3em; text-decoration:none; color:gray; border-left: 2px solid gray;} #header ul li a:hover { border-bottom: 1px solid gray; background: #FFFFAC url(images/arrow2.gif) center center no-repeat;} .skiplink a:link, .skiplink a:visited { visibility: hidden;}  /* Vertical Navigation Menu */ #navigation { margin-bottom: 15px; } #navigation ul { list-style-type:none; margin:0; padding:0; } #navigation ul li {line-height: 4px; border-bottom: 1px solid gray;} #navigation ul li a:link,#navigation ul li a:visited { text-decoration:none; color:#000; text-transform:uppercase; display:block; } #navigation ul li a:hover { background: #FFFFAC url(images/arrow.gif) left center no-repeat; padding-left: 25px; font-weight:bold; } #navigation p{margin:0 10px 10px}  /* Logobox */ #logobox {background-image:url(images/plaidbg.gif); width: 150px; border: 1px solid #FFFFAC; text-align:center;} #logobox h1 { border-top: 1px solid #600; } #logobox h1, #logobox h2 { background-color: #A9A9A9; color: #FFFF84; margin: 5px; margin-bottom: 0; padding: 8px; font-size: 1.3em; text-transform: uppercase; border-right: 1px solid #600; border-left: 1px solid #600;} #logobox h2 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #600;}  /* Main pic area above content */ div#mainpicbox {  height: 400px; border: 1px solid #A9A9A9; margin-left: 10px; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px;} div#mainpic { height: 400px; background: url(images/blockdesign.gif) top center repeat-y; color:white; } div#mainpic h2 { color:#fff; font-size: 2.75em; margin-top:0; padding-top: 2em; padding-left: 20px; margin-bottom:0; } div#mainpic h3 { padding-left: 20px; color:#330;} div#mainpic p, div#mainpic a:link, div#mainpic a:visited { display:inline; margin:0; color:#fff; margin-left: 10px;font-weight:bold; font-size: 1.2em; text-decoration:none; } div#mainpic a:hover {color:#600; background-color:inherit; }  /* Extra section */ .stripnav { background-color: #A9A9A9; width: 130px; border: 1px solid #A9A9A9; text-align:center;} div#extra p {margin-left: 0;  } div#extra h2 { background-color: #A9A9A9; color: #FFFF84; margin-bottom: 0; padding: 8px; font-size: 1em; text-transform: uppercase; border: 1px #000;} div#extra p a:link, div#extra p a:visited { padding:0; color: #600; font-weight:bold; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration:none;} div#extra p a:hover { text-decoration:underline;}  /* Photo Gallery Area */ div#gallery { border-top: 2px solid #A9A9A9; padding-top: 15px;} div#gallery img {width: 50px; height: 50px; padding: 2px; border:1px solid #A9A9A9;} div#gallery ul { list-style-type:none; margin:0; padding:0;} div#gallery ul li {display:inline;} div#gallery ul li a:link, div#gallery ul li a:visited {display:inline; border-bottom:0;} div#gallery ul li a:hover {background-color:inherit;} /* Footer Area */ div#footer ul { list-style-type:none; margin:0; padding:0; padding-top: 2px; text-align:right; font-size: .8em; } div#footer ul li { list-style-type:none; display:inline; border-left: 1px solid gray;} div#footer  ul li a:link,#footer ul li a:visited { display:inline; text-decoration:none; color:#000; text-transform:uppercase;} div#footer ul li a:hover {text-decoration:underline;} div#footer p {text-align:center; margin-top: 5px;}  /* Content Area */ div#content img { border: 1px solid #A9A9A9; padding: 2px; margin: 3px; margin-left: none; } div#content p {padding-left: 5px;} /* Bonus Styles */ p.rightsidelink { text-align:right;} .rightsidelink a:link, .rightsidelink a:visited { padding:0; color:#600; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none;} .rightsidelink a:hover {text-decoration:underline;} .entrytext { margin-top: 0; font-size:larger; font-weight:bold;} .bright { font-size: 1.5em; color:#600; text-transform:uppercase;}

Then page text/layout he
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="bgwrap">
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<ul>
<li class="skiplink"><a href="#content">Skip to Content</a></li>
<li class="skiplink"><a href="#navigation">Skip to Navigation</a></li>
<li><a href="/shop">Shopping</a></li>
<li><a href="http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=" target="_blank">Ebay</a></li>
<li><a href="contact_us.shtml">Contact Us </a></li>
<li><a href="index.shtml">Main Page </a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content">
<div id="mainpicbox">
<div id="mainpic">
<h2>&nbsp;</h2>
</div>
</div>
<h1 align="center"> Welcome to </h1>
<h1 align="center"> </h1>
<p align="center">A painting studio featuring artwork for sale </p>
<p align="center">and<br />
    <br />
    offering instruction for those who would like to create their own </p>
<p align="center">landscape or floral paintings in oils.</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">If you would like to be notified of new classes or items for sale, </p>
<p align="center">please be sure to join our mailing list.</p>
<p align="center">No purchase is necessary to register.<br />
</p>
<p class="rightsidelink">&nbsp;</p>
<div id="gallery">
<p class="entrytext">&nbsp;</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="logobox">
<h1> </h1>
<h2>Explore your creativity</h2>
</div>

<p><!--#include file="menu.html" -->
</p>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<ul>
<li><a href="index.shtml">Main Page</a></li>
<li><a href="about.shtml">About Us</a></li>
<li><a href="/shop">Shopping</a></li>
<li><a href="/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7">Classes</a></li>

<li><a href="contact_us.shtml">Contacts</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Copyright 2007 - | Site designed and hosted by<a href="http://www..com" target="_blank"></a> </p>
</div>

</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Then Menu.html file he
Code:

<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
</style>
<div id="navigation">
<ul>
<li><a href="index.shtml">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="about.shtml">About Us</a></li>
<li><a href="contact_us.shtml">Contact us </a></li>
<li><a href="calendar.shtml">Calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="classes.shtml">Classes</a></li>
<li><a href="events.shtml">Other Events </a></li>
</ul>
</div>

<div id="extra">
<h2 class="stripnav">Shopping</h2>
<p>Here we will show a single item from each category in your shopping area that will be linked to it.. </p>
<p><a href="#">Pattern Packets </a><br />
  Photo goes here </p>
<p><a href="#">Glass</a><br />
  Photo goes here </p>
<p><a href="#">Paintings</a><br />
  Photo goes here</p>
<p><a href="#">Wood</a><br />
  Photo goes here </p>
  <p><a href="#">Other</a><br />
  Photo goes here </p>
    <p><a href="#">Supplies</a><br />
  Photo goes here </p>
</div>

devwebsites.com/sitedevs/

Anyway, FF3 and Safari show up fine. I used conditional comments to get rid of what Opera is showing, and to make it look like FF3. However since Opera is displaying this behavior I guess I need to figure out what the actual problem is. Any input on it?

I am having the same problem as a few other posters regarding Spry menu bars. I was wondering if someone here could help us.

The link is
The problem link

Thanks