Sidebox Background Color IE

[mycomputerbuddy]

I have modified the entire sidebox of my site to be one color. (green).
In the style sheet.

My problem is Internet explorer ignores the style in my stylesheet and displays a grey background (testing with all right sideboxes off). I do get a green background with IE when a sidebox is enabled but the background is only green for the size of the sidebox then the rest is grey.

Firefox - no problems... entire right sidebox is green!!! Looks great.

Is this due to the fact that Internet explorer needs some sort of content say a
nbsp to display styles?

How can I fix this in Internet Explorer?

Thanks,

[RuFuS]

Is this on a test server or is there a url where we could take a look?

[mycomputerbuddy]

Here are the screen captures. Site is not live at the moment.

Explorer



Firefox


Thanks,

[CJPinder]

Hi,

All you should need is...

#navColumnTwo {background-color: green;}

...in your stylesheet. I just tested that and it works fine in FF 2 and IE 6.

Regards,
Christian.

[RuFuS]

Its weird I don't usually have an issue, normally setting the background-color is sufficient for #navColumnTwo and without having code to look at its difficult to see whats happening.

If you posted your css sheet, I could apply it to my test site (a clean install) maybe that would show me whats wrong...

[Nimbuz]

Try the "!important" hack.

Something like this:

#navColumnTwo {background-color: green !important;}

[mycomputerbuddy]

I eventually found the culprit... Thanks for all the help.

There was a 1 pixel high background image file that I didn't see on my slices...
I never updated the image and for ie when blank it just showed the background..

Thanks for the help!