Trans custom css question...

[blackdove]

Hi all...

I'm having a devil of a time trying to get my sidebar to be where I want it to be on my personal journal.  I've adjusted the left margins and right margins and it still looks all wonky.  Now I admit, I've been working on this during my breaks and lunch at work and the office computer only has IE6 which isn't a supported browser here at DW (can't upgrade per our IT department... I don't know why they want us to stick with IE6) so it's possible that it isn't as bad as it appears on my browser... but any thoughts y'all have would be fantastic.  I feel like I'm losing my mind and css is starting to look a lot like the Wingdings font at this point.

Thanks in advance!

~sara

Comments

[adalger]

It definitely won't look right in IE6. IE6 understand CSS very little, and often incorrectly. My personal advice is, wait until you can use a more up-to-date browser, unless you want to specifically design for usability in IE6, which I don't recommend because you'll have to do a lot of things wrong that will make it look bad in browsers that handle CSS correctly. Also, you risk giving yourself misconceptions about how things are supposed to work, and may end up accidentally believeing the way IE6 interprets things is correct when it isn't.

[blackdove]

Totally don't want to customize to IE6 because it's a piece of crap. lol I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something in the coding- from my view on IE6 I don't even *have* a sidebar!

Thanks for the response!

[adalger]

No, you're not missing anything, Microsoft is. ;)

[branchandroot]

What is it you want your sidebar to do?

[baggyeyes]

Your width on .module-section-two is too large, and that's causing it to be pushed down. Start lowering it by increments until it stops dropping below the content, if you want a somewhat lage sidebar.

[baggyeyes]

Gah. lage sidebar. = large sidebar.

[ninetydegrees]

Can you use a USB drive at work? Or any portable device? Like a CD. Because you could use the portable version of Firefox.

[blackdove]

Hey all! Thanks for all of the advice and thoughts... I was able to finally check it out on IE7 last night and I realize now that I do in fact have a sidebar! Hooray!