Something's forcing left column only 2x wide

[katiediddesign]

Here's my site... right now it's just a mixture of a bunch of junk products while I focus on function and layout:

My Webpage

 

For some reason, in MSIE only, the left column is being forced about twice as wide as it should be. In Netscape the left side is like it's supposed to be, like the right column. My box_width is set to 175, and as far as I can tell, I haven't accidentally put any TD widths in the code to do this. There aren't any images that are forcing it that wide, either. I've been messing with header.php and index.php the last several days setting up my layout, but I've only been previewing in Netscape, so I didn't realize this until this morning. I've been all over these pages, scouring for anything that might be doing this... usually I'm able to solve these problems, but this one's got me stumped... especially since Netscape is usually more picky than MSIE, not the other way around!

 

Does anyone have any ideas?

[boxtel]

Here's my site... right now it's just a mixture of a bunch of junk products while I focus on function and layout:

My Webpage

 

For some reason, in MSIE only, the left column is being forced about twice as wide as it should be.  In Netscape the left side is like it's supposed to be, like the right column.  My box_width is set to 175, and as far as I can tell, I haven't accidentally put any TD widths in the code to do this. There aren't any images that are forcing it that wide, either.  I've been messing with header.php and index.php the last several days setting up my layout, but I've only been previewing in Netscape, so I didn't realize this until this morning.  I've been all over these pages, scouring for anything that might be doing this... usually I'm able to solve these problems, but this one's got me stumped... especially since Netscape is usually more picky than MSIE, not the other way around! 

 

Does anyone have any ideas?

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probably the 145 :

 

for:<input type="text" name="keywords" size="10" maxlength="30" style="width: 145px">

[katiediddesign]

probably the 145 :

 

for:<input type="text" name="keywords" size="10" maxlength="30" style="width: 145px">

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I don't think so... that's what designates the search box width to be 145px. The column is supposed to be 197 wide, which means that the search button should carry down to the next line. That's what it does in Netscape...

 

I'll go take a look at that box and see if maybe a <br> will fix it. I've got all those borders around everything right now so I can see the edges of all the tables, in an attempt to see what's wrong...

[katiediddesign]

I guess that was it... not the search text field, as it was the size it was supposed to be, but for some reason MSIE wasn't willing wrap the text and the search text field box as much as it needed. I put in some <br>'s to hard wrap the lines where they needed to and it's fine now.