text/table positioning wont work on IE5

[rh-penguin]

hi,

 

I've got a website. It has a nav menu on the left and i am wanting too place 'content'(text,pics,etc.) on the right(along-side the menu).

I took a table and assigned it to a div. The div is as following:

#contentStyle {
width: 827px;
min-height: 450px; 
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: #ffffff;
[b]padding-left: 208px;[/b]
padding-right: 25px;
margin-top: -158px;
vertical-align: top;
padding-top: 20px;

}

 

You can see i've done 208px of padding from the left(so it doesnt overlap the menu) and it works a treat in Opera and FF but in IE5 it simply doesnt! LOL! It takes the text(which is assigned to #contentStyle) and just squishes it and it gest placed right over the menu.

Is this not the way to do it or is there a trick to this?

 

Thanks alot!

[ToonMariner]

Mate - ie5 is dead - the only people who use it are developers checking that there stuff works in ie5!

 

If someone INSISTS on using that browser to visit your site then they deserve everything they get - ie6 has been available for too long for them to not have upgraded... ITS THEIR PROBLEM NOT YOURS.