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I needed a white bg to stretch vertically with my content so I added a content_wrapper div and it seems to have allowed me to do what I want.. but now the bg is still not expanding all the way with the text.. weird? There shouldn't be overflow.

Then there is the problem of IE. The #content DIV isn't even displaying properly at all.. it has the DIV off to the right. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or if I just need a hack for IE for the one issue?

I can fix the issue in IE by setting the #content div to absolute positioning. unfortunately, that kills the bg image and color of the #content_wrapper. Hm?

Any help would be greatly appreciated as it is also time-sensitive.

Looks like you only closed two div thingies. Add an extra </div> tag here:

<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content_wrapper">
<div id="content">
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</div>

Div thingie :shock: ?

First of all you appear to have EVERYTHING positioned - which is not necessary and not good. IE has numerous bugs, especially with absolute positioning. Learn so use the normal document flow and floats and you'll be better off.

I would remove all that positioning EXCEPT for the position:relative on your main container div, that is a good place to use it.

You should read up on positioning:
http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast...s/positioning/

Then you should read up on IE's many bugs:
http://www.positioniseverything.net

Then do a Google Search for Conditional Comments - you don't want hacks in your main css file !