http://www.royalcraftsman.com/index_...struction.html

for some reason when you view it with firefox it comes out correctly, but in IE it doesn't want to show the 3 images nested in the parent div table... what am i doing wrong?

in div.parent you have the height set to 100%. This is not support by most browsers.

Also in the div's for the images the height is missing px

Your line is height: 200; it should be height: 200px;

Same goes for all three image div's

also....

don't mix float with absolute positioning, it doesn't make sense.

I got this to work:

div.parent {
	background: url(images/index_01.gif) top left no-repeat;
	position: absolute;
	width: 792px;
	height: 100%;
	float: center;
	border: solid #000000 1px;
	background-color: #ffffff;
	text-align: left;
	left: 10%;
	right: 10%;
	top: 0px;
}


div.image1{
	margin-top: 17px;
	width: 250px;
	height: 200;
	border: none;
	float: left;
}
div.image2{
	margin-top: 17px;
	width: 243px;
	height: 200;
	border: none;
	float: left;
}
div.image3{
	margin-top: 17px;
	width: 299px;
	height: 200;
	border: none;
	float: left;
}

thanks gringo that seemed to fix the problem.. one more thing.. i am going to next a few more boxes into the parent, is this a good idea? or should i stick with tables?

ok look at the link again.. thats excactly what i want the page to look like in IE too, i need to be about to put text on that top bar for links and the bottom bar as well

ok one more problem... http://www.royalcraftsman.com/index2.html
open that in firefox and in internet explorer. its buggy on both broswers...