IE5 (and 6?) spacing issue

[mcgarry]

Hi,
If you go to the pictures page of my website in Firefox or Safari, linked from my sig or here, you will see a menu at the top for navigating the site with spaced links. However, in IE 5.23 for Mac, the links all bunch at the center. Does anyone know a workaround for this?

Also, if someone with IE6 on their machine could try to load the page and tell me if the issue persists in that version of IE, I would appreciate it.

Thanks a lot.

p.s. Also, the font "andale mono" shows up fine in IE and Firefox for the places I have selected it, which includes the aforementioned menu. But in Safari, it's not consistent (you'll see what I mean). Non-link text displays correctly, links are in the backup font. Any idea why? I feel like I'm missing something obvious here ...

 

[ChicoWeb]

Gotta love IE for mac

 

[mrzeve]

you should REALLY learn how to use CSS

and do you mean that in firefox they show up like:

main navigation pictures about

and in IE they show up like
main
navigation
pictures
about

 

[mcgarry]

you should REALLY learn how to use CSS

and do you mean that in firefox they show up like:

main navigation pictures about

and in IE they show up like
main
navigation
pictures
about

Yeah, thus far I've barely learned enough to put up what I have already put up. Still, all my pages use CSS, and a few subpages use a common external .css too.

in Safari and Firefox, the links are properly spaced h o r i z o n t a l l y (where each letter represents a link), but in IE they are bunched together, though still horizontal.

If it works in IE6 and this is only an IE5 thing, I'll probably just live with it.

 

[mcgarry]

Yeah, it was even worse in IE6. I tried a few alternatives and then gave up, for now, and put in something simpler.

I was actually able to get one version up that worked in everything I could test, and in IE6, but did NOT work in IE5 for Mac! I know almost no one uses it, but I still see it trotted out occasionally.

And by the way, the first version I made (that worked on all but IE6, albeit oddly in IE5 for Mac) was fully CSS-compliant. The version I adapted from www.wellstyled.com/css-inline-buttons.html worked in IE6, but set off the CSS validator alarm bells.

But ultimately I'm just playing around here; this would be nice but I am severely lacking the skills to do it right.