Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / CSS / August 2005

i'm talking about this page:
http://www.elleen.net/yanny/prova.html
colours are awful, but they're there just to realize where divs begin
and end.
in firefox it works pretty good --well, at least it's almost what i'm
expecting it to be--, but it's not perfect yet.
with internet explorer it's completely messed up --and i don't
understand why--, but i'm not going to talk about this at this moment.

as you can see if you have a look at the source, i have some fixed
div's and an absolute div, which is the one that scrolls and in which
i should put my --long-- content.
i don't understand how --if there's a way to do it-- i can have my
"main" div *not* behind the footer *and at the same time* it being
able to scroll it's content.
one of the many tries i've done was "fixed"-ing the main div and
putting a scrolling div inside it, but it didn't work.
i had more luck setting main div as fixed and then activating the
scroll attribute, but i got also the horizontal scroll bar, which i
wouldn't want, and it didn't receive mouse scroll wheel events, which
quickly became disappointing.

i understand there are a million different ways to show content on the
net and that i could use a different layout, but i'm working on some
pages for internal use and this is the best layout for us, even if id
doesn't work in ie --is there any easy/hard way to let it work with
ie?-- since we all have firefox on our pc's at my company.
i have plenty of pages which uses frames for "fixed" menus and
toolbars and i'm trying to get rid of them without renouncing at the
fixed items, which are absolutely necessary for the job.

thank you in advance.

regards,