horizontal div won't expand on ie 6

[riskmod]

Is there a fix for this:

#banner {
background-color: #000000;
background: #000 url (images/spacer.gif) repeat-x;
text-align: left;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
left: 0;
height: 34px;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}

It expands no matter how big you make your bowser (horizontally) fine on FF3/2 and IE7 but not IE 6....any ideas?

TY

[Centauri]

Try width: 100%;

[riskmod]

Thanks but ie 6 still doesn't flinch.


.....that makes ie 7 and ff work better though

Here what I have in the html:

<div id="banner">
<img src="images/header.gif" width="771" height="34" alt="" /><br />
</div>

[ray326]

Could be a position:absolute problem I guess.

[riskmod]

yeah I just need some sort of solution on it

[Centauri]

When absolutely positioning it is best to specify both an x and y coordinate so browsers don't have to guess. IE6 won't respond to stretching by specifying both left and right positions, so along with the 100% width, specify the left and top positions and remove the right. I question whether the absolute positioning is necessary anyway - using the default static position the div will expand to full available width naturally.

[riskmod]

thanks Cent