mAYBE I am a bit rust but my following seems to display ok in firefox chrome but doesn't even work in IE maybe something simple i am missing as I am very rusty.
#topholder {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 100%;
height: 120px;
display:block;
z-index:0;
background: transparent;
border: 1px solid #336699;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
#menuholder {
position: absolute;
top: 120px;
left: 0px;
width: 100%;
height: 30px;
display:block;
z-index:0;
background: transparent;
border: 1px solid #336699;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
#leftholder {
position: absolute;
top: 150px;
left: 0px;
width: 13%;
height: 30px;
display:block;
z-index:0;
background: transparent;
border: 1px solid #336699;
padding: 0% 1% 0% 1%;
}
#centerholder {
position: absolute;
top: 150px;
left: 15%;
width: 66%;
height: 30px;
display:block;
z-index:0;
background: transparent;
border: 1px solid #336699;
padding: 0% 2% 0% 2%;
}
#rightholder {
position: absolute;
top: 150px;
left: 85%;
width: 13%;
height: 30px;
display:block;
z-index:0;
background: transparent;
border: 1px solid #336699;
padding: 0% 1% 0% 1%;
}
#footerholder {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 100%;
height: 30px;
line-height:30px;
display:inline;
z-index:0;
text-align:center;
background: transparent;
border: 1px solid #336699;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
and the html
<?php
session_start();
ini_set ("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$pgid = stripslashes($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$pattern = '/\//';
$newpageid = preg_replace($pattern,'', $pgid);
$pageid = $newpageid;
$ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/index.css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="topholder" name="topholder">
top
</div>
<div id="menuholder" name="menuholder">
menu
</div>
<div id="leftholder" name="leftholder">
left
</div>
<div id="centerholder" name="centerholder">
center
</div>
<div id="rightholder" name="rightholder">
right
</div>
<div id="footerholder" name="footerholder">
footer
</div>
</body>
</html>