IE6 and CSS Display Issue

[Michael and Marilyn Cherry]

I have a web site that uses XHTML 1.0 (Strict) and CSS. I have a Doctype at
the beginning of the page that says the page is XHTML 1.0 strict.

The XHTML page and CSS file pass the verification tests as valid XHTML and
CSS (there are no errors).

The page displays correctly on IE on the Mac, Safari on the Mac, and Firefox
on Windows.

It does not display correctly on IE 6.0.

Page has simple two column layout with a header and footer. The header
displays correctly.

The Headings tags are formatted so they have a black background color and
white text.

When you open the page, the header tag in the second column, (controlled by
a <div> tag)
does not use the background color of black (so you have white text on a
white background). No matter
what you do it will never display correctly.

The footer appears correct (white text on black background), until you
resize the browser.

The columns resize as you shrink the browser, but the footer will
alternately go to white text on white background, then correct (black
background with white text), then it will be wrong again.

If you leave it the wrong way (white on white) and scroll up and then down,
the page will repaint correctly.

I cannot find a bug like this listed.

Any ideas how I can fix this? Is there a work around?

Thanks
Michael

 

[C A Upsdell]

I have a web site that uses XHTML 1.0 (Strict) and CSS. I have a Doctype at
the beginning of the page that says the page is XHTML 1.0 strict.

The XHTML page and CSS file pass the verification tests as valid XHTML and
CSS (there are no errors).

The page displays correctly on IE on the Mac, Safari on the Mac, and Firefox
on Windows.

It does not display correctly on IE 6.0.

I cannot find a bug like this listed.

How about the infamous IE Peekaboo bug?

 

[Michael and Marilyn Cherry]

Checking on the Peekaboo bug, but I thought that involved floats, which I
don't have on the page.

Michael

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Checking on the Peekaboo bug, but I thought that involved floats, which I
don't have on the page.

One bug (don't know if it was ever called "Peekaboo") which I can recall
which sounds related could be circumvented by toggling View, Text Size
Is yours like that?

Here's one example where the HTML was generated by Excel
and there was some disagreement over where the problem was: <eg>

http://groups-beta.google.com/group...crosoft.*.ie6.browser&rnum=1#d5476bd21d9252af


FWIW

Robert Aldwinckle
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