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I've done some research on this and I can't seem to find any solution.

IE 5.5 apparently has a bug displaying CSS pages sometimes. I've found a few mentions of this in web dev newsgroups, but no resolutions.

What happens is that sometimes (and most especially when IE is maximized as I usually use it) you see horizontal white lines between some CSS floating boxes. You don't see it between all the boxes, and it's totally random in appearance.

I KNOW it's a browser bug issue because if you just take the focus away from the Window and then return it, the lines disappear. Also they come and go after subsequent refreshes.

It's NOT a video driver issue - this happens on a variety of systems I've tried it on and only with IE 5.5 BUT - here's an interesting catch, ONLY on systems running Win2K. Every Win98 system running IE 5.5 displays it properly.

In this screenshot you can see what I mean - there's three lines across the page:



This page was generated by Adbobe GoLive, but I've seen posts in newsgroups that it also happens with Fireworks and other editors so I don't think it's editor specific.

Pages look fine in IE 5.0, IE 6.0 and NN 4.7

If you want to try it with your browser the URL is: http://iselldomainnames.com/sanjuansledders/

Anyone have ANY ideas? Seem like the web community is just ignoring it. It's aggravating me because I want my pages to look RIGHT on EVERYONE'S browser

Granted if it's limited to IE 5.5 on Win2K only it's not a major issue, but it's still annoying.

I accessed the site from work here, full screen IE 6, half a dozen times. Went to links within the site ( under const. ) with no problems with the screen dropping out as your example showed. Tried Netscape 4.76, full screen refresh and try different pages within: looks ok.

My IE version is 6.0.2600.0000, W2K Pro SP2.

Hope you find it.

I'm sure you have a reason but why not just use IE 6.0 instead?

Why use so much CSS when using regular tables and HTML will work? It appears as though it was generated by GoLive though so I guess GoLive prefers to use CSS. Personally, for compatibility with older browsers, minimal CSS is generally used, even though most browsers will recongize the absolute positioning CSS. Anyways I am using IE 5.5 on Windows 95 and well, no lines appear. I'll load IE 5.5 up when I do Win2k (before doing IE6) and will check it out. Seems really weird.

I'm sure you have a reason but why not just use IE 6.0 instead?

Doesn't matter what I use, I'm just concerned about someone else viewing the page and seeing the lines. I personally use IE 5.5 because it's what the masses are using now, but I also have NN 4.7, NN 6, IE4, IE 5, IE 6 running on this system, or on another computer to check pages.

The curse of web page design is you have to check it in all the popular browsers, and they all look different.

BUSBY: CSS is a bit of a new thing for me. I rather like it. When I do an all graphical site like this, I use Adobe Image Ready. Image Ready will either generate a CSS page or a tables page (your choice) but I have a lot more trouble with compatibility with Netscape when using a page generated with tables.

If I'm not using a mural for a background as on this site (if I use some kind of normal tiled background) then I usually use tables because it's easier.

I have very little trouble with CSS (except this one bizarre exception, and it ONLY seems to be with IE 5.5 on Win2K systems) as long as I avoid CSS statements that aren't supported by Netscape.

I'm sure you have a reason but why not just use IE 6.0 instead?

Because its not stable for web development. IE6 still has some issues that make it a poor testing platform.

Just wanted to say that I just opened the page in IE 5.5 and the lines appear (Win2k). Refreshing makes them change spots, won't go away. Although as FP said going to another window and changing back makes them disappear.