Problems with text cutoff in site

[emartin]

Hi - I'm new here and new at web design.

For my first site I used a Dreamweaver template so that I could begin to learn CSS. Well, the site is almost finished but there's a problem with the content on the index page.

http://andrew.cmu.edu/org/pdmg

In IE 5.1 on a Mac the content on the main page is cut off when the browser window is not 100% open. Of course, it looks good on every other browser and OS EXCEPT this one. What am doing wrong? Is there anything I can add to the CSS to make it not cut off? I have a feeling this is a very simple question.

Anyway, here are the layout divs:

#masthead{
padding: 10px 0px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;
width: 100%;
}

#navBar{
position: absolute;
width: 165px;
margin: 0 85% 0 0;
padding: 0px;
background-color: #eeeeee;
border-right: 1px solid #ccc;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;

}

#content{
position: absolute;
left: 240px;
top: 60px;
width: 75%;
padding-bottom: 40px;
padding-top: 15px;
}

Thanks in advance!

[pyrodragon]

missing semicolin (

i have a feeling the browser is not rendering properly because the code was missing a charecter or something of the sort also some browsers may not render even perfectly valid code so check for spelling errors and fix the following and see if it helps:

.style1 {font-size: 214%;}
.style2 {font-size: 150%;}
.style4 {font-size: medium;}
.style5 {color: #990033;}
.style6 {font-size: 150%; color: #990033;}

i really don't know if it will help if not then it may be the browser not the code ...
the change i made was in the link you provided and i added semi colins to the end of your style statements also you might want to make sure that one style is not overrideing the other...

[Eddy Bones]

Mac IE is not supported by Microsoft anymore, so it has plenty of rendering issues.

[sparkyhughes]

I would guess that it is a bug in that version of IE, and if it works in everything else there may not be a lot you can do about it.

Unless there is a web guru lurking on this forum that knows about all these little fixes and workarounds.

What I am saying is basically the same as Eddy, above - rendering issues