unfathomable CSS problem for you

Hi all
apologies for cross posting if any of you are on more than one of these
lists.

This problem is beginning to bug me and I can't work out how to fix it. 

URI - http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/services/education/ict/default.htm

Problems:
IE5pc  - the navigation menu jumps downwards when the cursor is placed over
the 3rd button down. 
IE5Mac - the buttons cannot be seen at all but the link is there because the
cursor changes to a pointer (hand)

Other browsers tested - IE5.5pc, Opera6, NS6.2, IE5.5MacOSX all seem ok.
IE4pc doesn't pick up the button class but at least shows the links.

The style for the buttons is this:

a.myButton {
color: #003;
font-family: arial, verdana, "sans serif";
font-size: x-small;
font-weight: normal;
text-decoration: underline;
border: 1px #003 solid;
width: 90%;
text-align: center;
padding: 5px;
position: relative;
background: #eee;
float: left;
}

a:hover.myButton {
color: yellow;
text-decoration: none;
background: #369
}

and the buttons are contained in a div that is styled thus: 

.navmenu {
 background-color: transparent;
 border: none; 
width: 15%; 
padding: 0.5em; 
text-align: center; 
margin-top: 1%; 
float: left; 
overflow: inherit
}

Research so far shows that if I make the width of myButton a fixed px width
then the jumping thing stops but I can't work out why and I don't want to
use fixed sizes anyway.. Unfortunatley I do not have the 'aberrant' browsers
installed on my localmachine so testing is somewhat hampered as I don't like
making changes to live sites if I can help it ;-)

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? It's driving me insane(r).

tia

Julian Scarlett
Web Design & Document Management System Officer
PPU
Education Directorate 
Sheffield City Council
0114 2735721
mob 07904914976
julian.scarlett@sheffield.gov.uk 

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Received on Wednesday, 27 February 2002 03:47:55 UTC