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I can float Nav in chrome and firefox but not ie. I am stumped (help)

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csphard

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Apr 5, 2002
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Using css I tried to float my nav to the right side to be inline with this image.

It works on chrome and firefox but not ie.. Can anyone tell me why?


Thanks Howard

<html><head>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sample2.css">
<title>Fpe</title>
<style>
body{background: url(images/new1.jpg) center top no-repeat;font-family: verdana;font-size:11px;text-align:center;}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,ul,li,a,img,body{margin:0;padding:0;}
img {border:0;}
#container{width:874px;height:600px;margin:0 auto;position:relative;text-align:left;}
#header{height:180px;}
#header h1{background: url(images/logo2.png) left bottom no-repeat;height:180px;}
#header span{display:none;}
#cheader {width:874px;border:1px solid red;height:300px;} /* used to break up header 1 and header 2 */
#nav{float: right;margin:50px 140px 0 0; border:1px solid green;width:200px;}
#nav ul {list-style: none;}
#nav li {font-weight:bold;height:32px;}
#nav li a {text-decoration:none;font-size: 40px; color:black;}
#nav li a:hover {color: #c6c6c6;}
#nav li a:visited {color: gray}

</style>
</head><body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"><h1><span>HEADER</span></h1></div>

<div id="content">
<div id="cheader">
<img src="images/2model.jpg" width="461" height="288">
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><a href="#">HOME</a></li>
<li><a href="#">MODELS</a></li>
<li><a href="#">EVENTS</a></li>
<li><a href="#">PRODUCTS</a></li>
<li><a href="#">CONTACT</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>






</div> <!-- content end -->
</div> <!-- container end -->

<div id="footer">


</div><!-- footer end -->
</body></html>
 
Most likely problem is no doctype specified, therefore browser will drop into quirks mode. See
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right float elements have to be in the document flow before any elements that should be on the same horizontal row as the floated element.

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