div id woes in NS

[ckennerdale]

(these problems are only in NS 4.7 which i need to solve and not in ie!)

I have items within <div id> tags , that are part of a navigation like this-

<div id=&quot;el1Parent&quot; class=&quot;parent&quot; ><a class=&quot;item&quot; href=&quot;&quot; onclick=&quot;expandIt('el1'); return false;&quot;><img src=&quot;images/navabout.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;about the company&quot; id=&quot;el1Img&quot;></a></div>

If I place these within within a table they ignore this fact and the first places itself at 0,0, the next one underneath it (as if there were no table - but not positioned by pixels.

I cant position each element (which works) independently with an inline style as the position of each div is dynamically related to the others in the nav (it is a drop down menu of sorts)

I deally what I would like to do is either place the whole navigation within a table or within a 'catch all' div id which places the whole navigation to a co-ordinate on the page (but allows each element to independently interact.

However neither of these is working within NS-

any ideas? or good tutorials on the trans-codeing for these browsers?

Thanks in advance Caspar Kennerdale