ASP.Net MVC Music Store Tutorial CSS Layout issue - css

Question

I just completed an MVC tutorial, but some of my webpages don't look right. This is mine:
But it's supposed to look like this:
The code for this page is:
#model MvcSuper.Models.MusicStore.Genre
#{
ViewBag.Title = "Browse Albums";
}
<div class="genre">
<h3><em>#Model.Name</em> Albums</h3>
<ul id="album-list">
#foreach (var album in Model.Albums)
{
<li>
<a href="#Url.Action("Details",
new { id = album.AlbumId })">
<img alt="#album.Title"
src="#album.AlbumArtUrl" />
<span>#album.Title</span>
</a>
</li>
}
</ul>
</div>
The left menu (partial view):
#model IEnumerable<MvcSuper.Models.MusicStore.Genre>
<ul id="categories">
#foreach (var genre in Model)
{
<li>#Html.ActionLink(genre.Name,
"Browse", "MusicStore",
new { Genre = genre.Name }, null)
</li>
}
</ul>
Entire CSS:
{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
border: none;
}
body
{
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
background-color: #FBF9EF;
padding: 0px 6%;
}
#container
{
float: left;
}
#header
{
float: left;
width: 100%;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #5D5A53;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
#header h1
{
font-size: 18px;
float: left;
background: url(/content/Images/logo.png) no-repeat;
padding: 45px 0px 5px 0px;
}
#promotion
{
height: 300px;
width: 700px;
background: url(/content/Images/home-showcase.png) no-repeat;
}
ul li a
{
font-size: 16px;
}
#main
{
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0 0 15px 10px;
float: left;
}
ul
{
list-style-type: square;
margin-left: 25px;
font-size: 14px;
}
ul#album-list
{
list-style: none;
margin-left: 0px;
}
ul#album-list li
{
height: 130px;
width: 100px;
float: left;
margin: 10px;
text-align: center;
}
ul#album-list li a, ul#album-list li .button
{
font-size: 13px;
float: left;
}
ul#album-list li a span
{
color: #9b9993;
text-decoration: underline;
}
#cart
{
float: right;
}
#update-message
{
color: #F6855E;
font-weight: bold;
}
.button, input[type=submit]
{
clear: both;
display: inline-block;
padding: 5px;
margin-top: 10px;
border: 1px;
background: #5e5b54;
color: #fff;
font-weight: bold;
}
.button a
{
color: #fff !important;
}
#footer
{
clear: both;
padding: 10px;
text-align: right;
border-top: 1px dotted #8A8575;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #8A8575;
font-family: Constantia, Georgia, serif;
}
/******************** Top Navigation ************************/
ul#navlist
{
float: right;
}
ul#navlist li
{
display: inline;
}
ul#navlist li a
{
border-left: 1px dotted #8A8575;
padding: 10px;
margin-top: 10px;
color: #8A8575;
text-decoration: none;
float: left;
}
ul#navlist li:first-child a
{
border: none;
}
ul#navlist li a:hover
{
color: #F6855E;
}
/********************* End top navigation ***************************/
p
{
margin-bottom: 15px;
margin-top: 0px;
}
h2
{
color: #5e5b54;
}
h2, h3
{
margin-bottom: 10px;
font-size: 16px;
font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;
}
h3
{
color: #9B9993;
}
#header h1 a, h3 em
{
color: #5E5B54;
}
a:link, a:visited
{
color: #F6855E;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
}
a:hover
{
color: #333333;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
}
a:active
{
color: #006633;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
}
/***************************** sidebar navigation ****************************/
#categories
{
font-family: Constantia, Georgia, serif;
list-style-type: none;
border-right: #5d5a53 1px dotted;
padding-right: 10px;
margin: 0 25px 0 0;
float: left;
}
#categories a:link, #categories a:visited
{
color: #9B9993;
text-decoration: none;
}
#categories a:hover
{
color: #F46739;
}
div#album-details p
{
margin-bottom: 5px;
color: #5e5b54;
font-weight: bold;
}
p em
{
color: #9b9993;
}
/* Form styles */
legend
{
padding: 10px;
font-weight: bold;
}
fieldset
{
border: #9b9993 1px solid;
padding: 0 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
clear: left;
}
div.editor-field
{
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
input[type=text], input[type=password], select
{
border: 1px solid #8A8575;
width: 300px;
}
/* Styles for validation helpers */
.field-validation-error {
color: #ff0000;
}
.field-validation-valid {
display: none;
}
.input-validation-error {
border: 1px solid #ff0000;
background-color: #ffeeee;
}
.validation-summary-errors {
font-weight: bold;
color: #ff0000;
}
.validation-summary-valid {
display: none;
}
/* Tables */
table
{
border: 1px solid #000;
border-collapse: collapse;
color: #666666;
min-width: 500px;
width: 100%;
}
tr
{
border: 1px solid #000;
line-height: 25px;
}
th
{
background-color: #9b9993;
color: #000;
font-size: 13px;
text-align: left;
}
th, td
{
padding-left: 5px;
}
tr:hover
{
background-color: #fff;
}
I did download the source code (the author's finished version), and it turned out like mine when I ran it. The top most screenshot is from FF4 on XP, but it looks the same in IE8 on XP. Any ideas?

Answer 1

To push that Album listing back up to its rightful place and put your mind at ease...
add a width to your main css class:
#main
{
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0 0 15px 10px;
float: left;
width: 500px;
}
also add a * to first css class
*{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
border: none;
}

Answer 2

Just take it easy. I'm pretty sure that this is the case of specific browser or some extra tricky css code, nothing more. Make sure you understand all the things that tutorial says and let the screen be as it is