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I've made a demo site for the local sierra club using the Blackbear theme and I installed easy gallery and easy calendar.

In Firefox, Easy Calendar looks great and sits to the right of the menu in the main content area.
As it should.
In IE6, Calendar jumps down and to the left, falling UNDERNEATH the menu.
See:
www.cra2.com/cfsierra/index.php?option=c...ar& Itemid=31

Have you seen that before?
Do you know if it's an Easy Calendar issue or a template issue or an IE issue?

thanks for your time,
Cra2

Oh yeah I've seen that problem before. It's such a common problem it's even been given a name which is
"IE6 !@#*ING SUCKS"

Um excuse me just venting some frustration. What I'm guessing is happening is the calender will be one or two pixels wider than the specified content area. You will be able to fix this in the template.

You could try and mean try (I haven't looked at the HTML so not too sure what to expect)putting this bit of code directly after the content div



If that doesn't work you can do a IE6 specific css template. Post back if you need to know how to put a IE6 css template in.

why do you suppose it works in firefox and not IE6?

All browsers are not equal unfortunately. HTML is quite reliable as its the language of the web. CSS how ever is is a new addition to the way we use and create web stuffs. IE6 is not a compliant browser (IE7 is allot better). With all this XHTML carry on we now have standards to abide by if we wish.

When a web browser is asked to view a particular web page it gets the file and interprets the HTML and CSS into a viewable visual format. IE6's interpretation of the code is a little 'special'. When it reads
div {
padding: 0px 10px 0px 20px;
}
it calculates it's own interpretation of this. Which is a dam pain. I've found Net Scape, Opera, Fire Fox all to be fairly consistent. It's a huge pain in the arse for me and many many others. I find Fire Fox to be fantastic. When I put the code together for a site it tends to react accordingly of how I visualize the code in my head. After this I find myself spending an equal amount of time fixing all the lay out issues like you're experiencing. It all come down to Microsoft sucking a whole bunch :angry:

crud.
thanks for the explanation.

wonder which is fastest and most reliable -
a) slim the calendar down by a couple of pixels.
b) putting your code in the content div
c) making a separate template for IE6

If that code works it'll be the fastest and easiest solution. An IE6 style sheet will be easy if you know a bit of css. I haven't looked at the calendar component but it could be a few hours of searching through code to find what you're looking for. Or it could be ten minutes. I'd go for the IE style sheet though

fyi,
for anyone else trying to solve this.
I got this response on the Easy Calendar forums, tried it, and it seems to work great.
forum.joomla-addons.org/index.php? topic=2051.msg8237#msg8237