true width:100%; divs, are they possible on myspace with IE?, Help appreciated :) Options

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So, I'm having absolutely no fun trying to (yet again) baby step Internet Explorer through my layout. While Firefox is having no trouble at all stretching absolute divs to 100% width, Internet Explorer seems to treat it as relative anyway and so as far as I can make out is becoming stuck inside parent elements.

I guess what I'm asking is this: Is this a common problem and is there an IE hack readily available?

When I say IE, I mean IE7 specifically although I'd imagine IE6 and below behave the same.

Thank you very much for having a look, any help is appreciated!

Cheers!


Screens:

Firefox:


Internet Explorer 7:

[xTHExDUDEx]

I use IE7 as a test at the moment yes, although I will test IE6 at some point as well.

And no, position:absolute; does not kick IE7 in to shape, although it does work for Firefox. As usual Micro$hit thinks it can make up it's own w3c...