IE7 background color draw issue

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Amanda - 25 Jan 2008 16:19 GMT

Hi,

I have a site in test and am having problems in IE7 (fine in IE6 &
FF). The background of the main content div does not draw its
background color if there is not enough text to fill it:

http://test139.netguides.info/devon/crealy-holidays.aspx

You will see that the page draws fine on initial load, but when you
scroll down, the background red of the main area is not appearing. It
does appear, however, when you mouseover the menu on the left.

Any help gratefully received.

Kind regards
Amanda

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Jeff - 25 Jan 2008 17:28 GMT

> Hi,
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> http://test139.netguides.info/devon/crealy-holidays.aspx

Nicely done.

I think what is happening is that the height of that div is
collapsing. You can put a border on it to see if that is that case.

You may try putting a clearing div just before that div closes:

<div style="clear: both"></div>

There was a discussion of this a few weeks back in another group.
BTW, I don't see this in IE6.

HTH,

Jeff

> You will see that the page draws fine on initial load, but when you
> scroll down, the background red of the main area is not appearing. It
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> Kind regards
> Amanda

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Amanda - 28 Jan 2008 17:23 GMT

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the pointer. You're right its just an IE7 problem - what a
pain...

Cheers
Amanda

> There was a discussion of this a few weeks back in another group.
> BTW, I don't see this in IE6.
>
> HTH,
>
> Jeff

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