I've narrowed it down to the float elements.  If I defloat the elements of the row, then they show up 
(albeit misaligned).  Can anybody think of a solution to this, or am I just going to have to go with 
the kludge of either defloating the row or making that particular div transparent?

Raj.

> -----Original Message-----
> I'm stumped, I played with it for a couple minutes and could not find
> a resolve. It obviously appears to be a z-index issue/bug with
> explorer but I could not get it to display after removing and changing
> the stacking orders around. Removing the background-color was the only
> thing that let the content show (obviously). Sorry..... I'd be curious
> to know the solution when you find one.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
> > Behalf Of Raj Bhaskar Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 6:26 AM To:
> > hwg-basics(at)hwg.org Subject: problem with CSS (layers?)
> >
> >
> > I sent this a few days ago and didn't get any reply so I'm trying
> > again.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Hi folks,
> > Could some kind soul please look at
> > http://www.iteu.gla.ac.uk/elit/newindex.html in IE5.5/ or IE6/win
> > and explain to me why the second box in the middle column seems to
> > be sitting on *top* of its contents?  I'm trying to combine
> > techniques from BlueRobot.com and AListApart.com using the 3-column
> > layout from BlueRobot and the tabular layout from AListApart, but
> > one seems to be interfering with the other.  I reckon that it's
> > something to do with fact that z-indexes are used, but I'm not sure
> > what.
> >
> > The site looks fine in Mozilla 1.1b+ and Opera 6.0.  I haven't got
> > access to a Mac.

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