Something in CSS is causing horizontal scroll in IE6 - css

I'm a real CSS beginner, so please forgive my ignorance. I've been searching around without success regarding something which must be obvious to experienced CSS folks.
Basically the CSS below displays as expected in FF/Chrome/IE8, but not in IE6 (and who knows about other IE versions). In IE6 a friggin horizontal scrollbar keeps being displayed since some elements are overflowing the browser window. My reading seems to indicate this has something to do with padding, 100% width being a problem with IE6, or something... I've added bg colours to better visualise the problem.
I only really want the #ch/div ("head") to fill the browser window horizontally. I suppose it boils down to: why are the div's for bs_ext and cd extending beyond the right-hand browser window, causing the horizontal scrollbar to be displayed?
<head>
<style>
<!--
body{margin:0px 0px 0px 0px}
#ch,#cs{position:relative;width:100%}
#ch{margin-top:0px;height:90px;background-color:#edeff4;border-bottom:1px solid
#dddddd}
#cs{height:55px;width:1024px;border-bottom:1px solid #dddddd}
#cb{width:1024px}
#ci{float:left;width:200px;background-color:#efefef}
#cr{float:left;width:530px;background-color:#cccccc}
#cd{float:left;width:294px;background-color:#dddddd}
#bs{position:relative;float:left;top:18px;left:15px;width:185px;background-
color:#cccccc}
#bs_ext{position:relative;float:left;top:18px;left:15px;width:824px;background-
color:#dddddd}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id=ch>head</div>
<div id=cs>
<div id=bs><span>sssssss</span></div>
<div id=bs_ext><span>ppppppp</span></div>
</div>
<div id=cb>
<div id=ci>111<br>111<br>111<br></div>
<div id=cr>222<br>222<br>222<br></div>
<div id=cd>333<br>333<br>333<br></div>
</div>
</body>
I would appreciate any pointers on how to make this work in IE6.
Also, I'd like the bottom border of #cs to be 100% of the browser at all times (it's currently 1024px). But, if I use "100%", then when resizing the browser moves "ppppppp" down - I'd like it to be fixed so that resizing the browser does not change the content position.
Thank you so much for any pointers/assistance

I would not try to make my website compatible with IE6.
IE6 is over 10 years old, you should use your time checking your code with newer browsers.
If you insist to make it IE6 compliant, you should look into using different stylesheets for different browsers.
Check this link out: http://www.thesitewizard.com/css/excludecss.shtml

Short answer:
bs_ext is 824px wide, so any browser (not just IE6) will display a scrollbar if browser size goes below that
cd is positioned 200+530px from the left and is 294px wide, meaning it extends to 1024px which is too wide (any browser uses about 16 pixels of the window's width to be used for a vertical scrollbar)
Also:
Go with bvd's suggestion; don't try to optimize for IE6 too much
Try to build the site in IE6 first and modern browsers later.
Solutions:
The following CSS will remove any scrollbars on the html/body of your page. A terrible fix, as you're destroying the user's tools to navigate your site:
html, body { overflow: hidden }
Also, if you want a footer that sticks to the bottom of the page (I'm not sure if you do but it looks that way), try to follow this tutorial:
http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/
Lastly, if you want more help, I suggest you post a picture or design of what you're trying to achieve. A lot is possible in IE6, if you know how to work around CSS imperfections that browser has.
A final tip is modernizr: http://www.modernizr.com/
Modernizr solves a lot of IE6 issues, but not all. Also, you'll have a JavaScript dependency in your website which will affect at least IE6 and 7 users.
Good luck!

To remove the scrollbar you could give this property to #CS {overflow: visible;} it may fix the IE6 Scrollbar issue.
As mentioned by BVD you shouldn't be checking for compatibility in IE6, you should install the latest versions of IE i.e., IE9. IE9 provides a Developer Tool which allows you to check the html page for compatibility in IE7, IE8 and IE9. You should ignore IE6 and focus on compatibilty from IE7 version onwards. To get an idea of which browsers are popular check NetMarketShare
The naming conventions you've used for the Div's are not right, check this article it may help you understand what I'm talking about css naming conventions.

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http://www.asingularcreation.com/Forums/download/file.php?id=8367&mode=view/ie7.jpg
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You do not need to float (or clear) the menu container. It looks like it is causing IE7 to calculate the width incorrectly which forces the menu to flow down, underneath the sub-menu.
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As far as it seems, there is no problem in IE7 v8.0 BUT in IE7 v7.0 looks moved to the side in most pages, but not in others.
I figured it was because of a fix i did for some lost positions, but when i searched for a lost object in the right there was none.
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Please help me! im going crazy with this!
Page:
http://www.tvazteca.com/homes/laislaelreality
I think the problem its the background position. I cant make it work for the IE7.
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I havent been able to make it work. I know im using hacks, and its not the best option, but i was asked to only use one style sheet for the site, so another one for IE7-IE8 was out of the question.
How can i make IE7 to read the background position? Is it going crazy because of the double clases?
Using Chrome and FF, element inspectors i found out none of the background position clases were taken for IE.
TY for reading :)
I found the problem.
Nothing was wrong with the Html php and my Css
The problem comes from FACEBOOK:
<script>
!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)) {js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");
</script>
The scrip has to be placed in the div that contains the likes/comments etc. Other way it will go crazy in IE.
It opens up a big div that forces the page to be contained and makes horizontal scrollbar to be extended. As result, the background will take such width as the base one and position itself on the 50% 0px of that thing.
It only affects IE versions. The other browsers work fine.

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I have played around with everything to no avail.
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for internet explorer: I see your menu to be wrong not the logo. To solve this just add margin:0 for #top-nav
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In your case appending a margin: 0px; to your body should do the trick (For Firefox). IE6, well, its usually best left to a IE6 specific conditional stylesheet.
"100%" means "100% of the parent box's client space". Not "100% of the entire viewport".
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