css dilema - ie 5.2 mac

[bitterpants]

im having severe trouble w/using CSS for positioning on a site im working on. it works quite well in opera on my mac, and it seems to work just as well in mozilla and IE on a windows machine. however, it all goes to poo in IE on mac (os 10.2)
for those of you that know a lot about CSS and are willing to help, all the details of the problem as well as links to the page and the source files are located here:

http://www.imbetterthanyou.net/tectest/helpme.html

the page in question is here:

http://www.imbetterthanyou.net/tectest/testthis.html

thanks a bunch.

jen

 

[sundog21]

Well, I've been looking for an explanation for a similar problem and noticed your post. This may not be the answer, but I have a suggestion that you might try.

I was able to get IE5.1 on the mac to stop scrambling my left menu bar by removing the "height" specification from the div tag. (I noticed you have #brushmenu height="83&quot Try leaving the height undefined, and letting the table or text of your menu cause it to expand as necessary.

Hope this helps you.

 

[bitterpants]

thanks for the tip. the height wasnt really the issue though. it turns out that linebreaks inside a div will cause it to be rendered w/a line break in IE mac. i rewrote the code so that it is as follows:

<div...<span...</span...<span...</span...</div

then a line break. its beautiful now and keeps all the formatting specified in the CSS file.

its kinda annoying that something as silly as a linebreak inside the html file will cause this. it reminds me of someone i knew who wrote all of his html in one line, never using a hard return while writing it. i guess that wasnt so silly of him to do afterall.