From: Jeff Thies on
Andr� H�nsel wrote:
> dorayme wrote:
>> In article
>> <3b6b7754-b2be-42fe-84d2-47bc06677...(a)u22g2000yqf.googlegroups.co
>> m>,
>> Andr� H�nsel <an...(a)webkr.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Jeff Thies wrote:
>>>> Andr� H�nsel wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I have a problem with an A with display:block not taking all the width
>>>>> in Internet Explorer. The problem can be seen
>>>>> onhttp://kundenweb.creations.de/usenet/menu/
>>>>> in the flyout navigation.
>>>> but can you not just explicitly set a width?
>>> I tried to set width: 100% but there were
>>>> Caveats on padding and margins,
>>> ;-)
>>> In Firefox there were grey boxes protruding from the menu items. In IE
>>> there was no effect at all.
>> There are many validation errors in the HTML for the url you
>> give, perhaps you might either fix these first (or ask how to fix
>> them) before going into this particular problem you are seeing.
>
> Sorry, although they were all uncritical (eg. empty-element tags
> without slash) you're right, I fixed them.


I don't see the problem, perhaps you fixed this? Looked in FF and IE8.

Jeff
From: André Hänsel on
Jeff Thies wrote:
> André Hänsel wrote:
> > dorayme wrote:
> >> In article
> >> <3b6b7754-b2be-42fe-84d2-47bc06677...(a)u22g2000yqf.googlegroups.co
> >> m>,
> >>  André Hänsel <an...(a)webkr.de> wrote:
>
> >>> Jeff Thies wrote:
> >>>> André Hänsel wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>> I have a problem with an A with display:block not taking all the width
> >>>>> in Internet Explorer. The problem can be seen
> >>>>> onhttp://kundenweb.creations.de/usenet/menu/
> >>>>> in the flyout navigation.
> >>>> but can you not just explicitly set a width?
> >>> I tried to set width: 100% but there were
> >>>> Caveats on padding and margins,
> >>> ;-)
> >>> In Firefox there were grey boxes protruding from the menu items. In IE
> >>> there was no effect at all.
> >> There are many validation errors in the HTML for the url you
> >> give, perhaps you might either fix these first (or ask how to fix
> >> them) before going into this particular problem you are seeing.
>
> > Sorry, although they were all uncritical (eg. empty-element tags
> > without slash) you're right, I fixed them.
>
>    I don't see the problem, perhaps you fixed this? Looked in FF and IE8.

I made a screenshot (IE7) which illustrates the problem:
http://kundenweb.creations.de/usenet/menu/border_problem.jpg

Those borders should be at the very right of the menu - as they are in
Firefox.