CSS - Line-height Issues In Ie, Works As Expected In Firefox

It displays fine in firefox, but not in IE. I haven't done anything personally with websites since php was first coming out, so css is completely new to me and Im using a (now modified) template instead of from scratch. So any help would be great.

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css code is:
Code:

body {
    font-family: tahoma, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 10px;
    text-align: center;
    background: #000000;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 10px;
}

html, #wrapper, h1 {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
}

img { border: 0px; }

#wrapper {
    margin: auto;
    text-align: left;
    width: 710px;
    position: relative;
}

h1, h2, h3 {
    font-size: 10px;
}


h1 {
    line-height: 1;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0px;
    left: 0px;
}

h2 {
    margin: 0px 0px 5px 0px;
    padding: 0px;
}

h3 {
    padding: 4px 0px 0px 0px;
}

.block {
    display: block;
}

.clear {
    clear: both;
    height: 10px;
}

.left {
    float: left;
    margin: 5px 20px 0px 0px;
}

.right {
    float: right;
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
}

.readmore {
    text-align: right;
}

 /* page structure */

#wrapper {
    background: url(images/body_t.gif) top no-repeat;
    padding-top: 20px;
}

#body {
    background: url(images/body_bg.gif) repeat-y;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
}

#body p {
    background: white;
}
#nav {
    position: absolute;
    top: 25px;
    left: 253px;
    width: 450px;
	height:35px;
	background: url(images/nav.gif) repeat-x;
}
#nav ul{
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
	list-style-type: square;
	list-style-position: inside;
}
#nav li{
	padding: 7px 16px 0px 16px;
	margin: 0px;
	height:35px;
	list-style-type: square;
	list-style-position: inside;
	float:left;
	border-right: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
	display:inline;
}

.lastchild{border-right: 0px none #FFFFFF !important;}

#nav a{
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-transform: capitalize;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
#nav a:hover{
	color:#fcff85;
}

#current {
    float: left;
    width: 235px;
    margin-left: 10px;
    margin-top: -10px;
    background: url(images/menu_bg.gif) repeat-y;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #05256b;
}

* html #current {
    margin-left: 5px;
}

#content {
    float: right;
    width: 450px;
    padding-top: 40px;
    margin-right: 8px;
}

* html #content {
    margin-right: 4px;
}

#footer {
    background: url(images/body_b.gif) no-repeat;
    text-align: center;
    padding-right: 10px;
    padding-left: 480px;
    padding-bottom: 30px;
}

#copyright {
    position: relative;
    top: -8px;
    color: #989898;
}

/* current column */

#current .nav {
    margin: 21px 6px 5px 5px;
}

#current ul {
    border: 1px solid #8497c2;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
}

* html #current ul {
    padding: 3px 0px;
    padd\ing: 0px;
}

#current li {
    list-style: none;
    border: 1px solid #4e698f;
    background: #01285f url(images/harry.gif) left center no-repeat;
    padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
    margin: 3px;
}

#current li.readmore {
    text-align: right;
    background-image: none;
}

#current ul a {
    color: #beddff;
    text-decoration: none;
    display: block;
    padding: 3px 12px 3px 0px;
}

* html #current ul a {
    width: 100%;
    w\idth: auto;
}

#current ul a:hover {
    color: white;
}

#current .readmore {
    padding: 3px 4px 4px 20px;
}

* html #current .readmore {
    padding: 0px 4px 1px 20px;
    padd\ing: 3px 4px 4px 20px;
}

#current .readmore a {
    text-decoration: underline;
    display: inline;
}

#currenttitle {
    position: absolute;
    left: 15px;
    top: 409px;
}

* html #currenttitle {
    top: 411px;
}

/* page content */

#content h2 {
    line-height: 1;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 20px 0px 0px 0px;
}

#content h3 {
	margin: 10px 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	text-transform: capitalize;
}

#content p {
    margin: 10px 0px;
    padding: 0px;    
}

#content .contentbox {
    border: 1px solid #e1e1e1;
    border-top: none;
    padding: 5px 20px 10px 20px;
}

* html #content .contentbox {
    padding-bottom: 11px;
}

#content, #content a {
    color: #868686;
}

#content a:hover {
    color: #000;
}

I have a div in my header that contains an image. The height of the image is 82px. For some reason in firefox (and chrome too) if I don't set the div height to 125px it gets cut off. It looks OK in IE6 without the height set, but with it set as needed for firefox it then creates a space in IE.
My header file has:
Code:

<div id= "logo" ><img src = "images/logo_LWV.gif"></div>

	<div id = "topNav">
		
		<div id = "topNavMenu">
		&nbsp;&nbsp;
		<a class = "top" href="index.php">Home</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
		<a class = "top" href="about.php">About Us</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
		<a class = "top" href="join.php">Join</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
		<a class = "top" href="funds.php">Special Funds</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
		<a class = "top" href="contact.php">Contact</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
		</div>  <!-- end topNavMenu -->

	</div>  <!-- end topNav -->

</div> <!-- end topBar -->

<div id = "imagebar"><img src = "images/lwvCorvallis.jpg"></div>
 
<div id = "greenbar"> 
	  <div id = "pagetitle">
                 <p>Title</p>
	  </div><!-- end pagetitle -->
</div> <!-- end greebar -->

and the css is:
Code:

#topbar
{
dispaly:block; width: 800px;
}

#logo
{
float:left;

}

#topNav
{
float:right;
width: 612px;
height: 65px;
background-color:#cc0033;
}

#topNavMenu
{
position:relative; top:40px;
text-align:left;
color: white;
}

#imagebar
{
display:block;
width: 800px; height:125px;
}
#greenbar
{
display:block;
width: 800px; height: 90px; 
background: url(images/greenbar.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat;
z-index: 0;
}

#pagetitle
{
position:relative; left: 200px;top:25px;
width: 600px; 
color: white;
z-index: 1;
}

The site is he
http://www.lwv.corvallis.or.us/
What's going on?

The problem I have has arisen whilst trying to create a horizontal and a vertical navigation menu using <li> tags. It is best illustrated by the following example:
Code:

<div style="width:100%;height:50px;">
<ul>
<li style="border:1px solid black;">Hello</li>
<li>World</li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<div style="width:100px;height:100%;">
<ul>
<li style="border:1px solid black;">Hello</li>
<li>World</li>
</ul>
</div>

and the CSS
Code:

div {
  border:0;
  background-color:#888888;
  }
ul {
  margin:0;padding:0;
  }
ul li {
  float:left;
  list-style:none;
  background-color:#CCCCCC;
  height:50px;
  width:100px;
  }

The <div> tags are set to 50px height and 100px width respectively. When an <li> element is placed within the div with the same height or width they display the way I intended. However once a 1px border is applied to the <li>'s then in IE the border is counted as part of the width or height. In Firefox the border will add 2px to the starting height and width giving the effect of width:102px or height:52px;.

This is massively frustrating as I need each <li> to have the 1px border. It looks different in each browser (I have not tested it in netscape nor opera, but I suspect they will display the same as Firefox.)

Can anyone provide a fix to get get round this please? Thank you in advance.

Hi all,

I am trying to automate everything on my test website and I have one more angle to cover.

In effect, I want to adjust the line-height property (which I can do) based on the number of files within a specific folder (PHP and already done). The more files in the folder, the lower the line-height value must be. This is to ensure if I copy additional files into the folder, then the navigation menu (which is PHP reading files in this particular folder) will alter the CSS line-height property accordingly to ensure it can never exceed a certain height.

Sounds wierd? go to www.re3.org.uk (next to the RE3 image, I have a list of hyperlinks which are obtained from files within the folder)

My problem, when adjusting the CSS property (which is set as cm in *.css file) in javascript, it doesn't correspond correctly, the line-height property in javascript doesn't appear to be work in cm but some other measurement.

Does anyone know how to change what unit of measurement Javascript works in? Or does anyone know what unit of measurement javascript uses when adjusting line-height / line-width values?

I want to create a mini-algorithm that works out the appropriate line-height based on the image height (got that already) and the number of files in the folder (got that too) so the menu automatically adjusts to fit.

Whew!

Hello

Just recently I had an idea for a page I wanted to make, the design is basically a 3-column layout with no traditional header or footer, the height of all three columns should run the length of the window/page height
the left and rightmost column would have a fixed width or a width in em, the center column width should fill the space in between.

If the content is short all columns should extend to the height of the page window, but if the content in any of the columns is longer than the window height they should all extend to reach the bottom of the page and accommodate the content length

In my first attempt things didn't go so well, results varied wildly across browsers so I decided to start from scratch bit by bit

Bellow is the point at which I reach consistent but undesired behaviour, I have validated and tested the code in Firefox 3/Pale Moon, Internet Explorer 8, Chromium 9, and Opera 11
I would like the end result to work in the above browsers as well as IE7 if possible
I should point out now that im not interested in using faux-columns, the layout should not require images, I also wish to have absolute-positioned elements in the columns some time later
Code:

<!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">
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
		<title>Three Columns</title>
		<style type="text/css">
			*, html, body {
				margin: 0;
				padding: 0;
				font-size: 100%;
			}
			html, body {
				width: 100%;
				height: 100%;
			}
			#maincontainer {
				position: relative;
				height: 100%;
				background: #eee;

			}
			#left {
				position: absolute;
				top: 0px;
				left: 0px;
				width: 200px;
				background: #fbb;
				height: 100%;
			}
			#mid {
				position: relative;
				margin: 0 200px 0 200px;
				background: #efe;
				height: 100%;
			}
			#right {
				position: absolute;
				top: 0px;
				right: 0px;
				width: 200px;
				background: #bbf;
				height: 100%;
			}
		</style>
	</head>
	<body>
		<div id="maincontainer">
			<div id="left">
				left start<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left<br />
				left end<br />
			</div>
			<div id="mid">
				mid start<br />
				mid<br />
				mid<br />
				mid<br />
				mid<br />
				mid<br />
				mid end<br />
			</div>
			<div id="right">
				right start<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right<br />
				right end<br />
			</div>
		</div>
	</body>
</html>

In the above example it works as long as the content within the columns is shorter than the window height, but if you re-size the window so that the text in the right or left column goes beyond the page, and then scroll to the bottom, the columns do not extend to the bottom of the page so there is a large gap where the content overflows beyond the column

What I would like to do from this point is make the columns extend to the bottom of the page when this happens, but I'm not sure how best to proceed

I also have a version of the above code which uses floated left and right columns instead of absolute positioned ones, would it be better to work from that? or does it not really matter

Thanks in advance