css problem in ie6

[jus]

i'd like to have a 5 thumbnail wide, centered div or table for my archive page.

i wanted to get it centred in the wrapper div, so i created a table, so i could use the align=center modifier.

if i set the table width to 610, firefox is happy, and it looks centered and good. in ie6, it's just a horizontal row of images - 19 of them. not too nice.

anyone know how to get ie6 to recognise max-width?

the page is here...

http://www.heathsinhove.net/lux/index.php?x=browse

or am I going at this in completely the wrong way?

thanks for any suggestions!

[Connie]

As I learned in many wasted hours of my life, IE has problems with max-width and min-width, it has problems with CSS at all

what is a shame as Microsoft is member of the standardisation-organisations but does not care about standards

so you might have a look at http://www.positioniseverything.net/
to find help or suggestions

everybody of us is fighting with this shit browser :twisted:

[jus]

You've right, Connie, ie is a nightmare, but I think I've found an answer...

IE7 is a project that puts javascript fixes on your webserver, and calls them where necessary to make ie standards compliant. It's called by an if browser=ie type selector in the header, so other browswers ignore it.

well worth a look - it doesn't work for everything, but does provide some good width support. it's supposed to make ie CSS2 compliant. Seems to have sorted out my troubles...

http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/intro/

[Connie]

yes, I know this project and I even use it at one webside because otherwise IE will not accept "position:fixed" or something like that

but I must tell you I am somehow tired of all this box-model-hacks and so on... you must learn and understand why and why it not it is doing weird things and the problem with hacks is that if you fix one hole somewhere the bucket will leak probably at another side....

so I did not suggest this or other hacks because I do not want to lay my hand in all fires :cry: