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

[xTHExDUDEx]

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]

Sorry to double post, need a bump, new info as well.

I deleted everything except the following CSS and HTML and still nothing, so it is definately IE7 that is the culprit here.

CSS:

CODE

<style type="text/css">

body {
margin-top:10200px;
}

div div select, div div form {display:none !important;}
select { filter:alpha(opacity=0); opacity:0.0; }

.userProfiledetail, .userProfileURL, .userProfileSchool,
.interestsAndDetails, .friendsComments,.extendedNetwork,
.latestBlogEntry, .friendSpace, .orangetext15, .navigationbar, .profileInfo, .contacttable { display:none;}
a.text, table div font a, table div div {visibility:hidden;}
table tr td div font {display: none;}
body div table td form {display:none!important;}
table, td, tr{ background-color:transparent;}
object, embed{ width:0px; height:0px;}
body div td div div select {width:0px !important;}





.welcome_gradient {
position:absolute;
top:0%;
left:50%;
margin-left:-50%;
width:100%;
height:70px;
background-image:url(http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/990/colorgradient1xm1.gif);
background-position:top left;
background-repeat:repeat-x;
}

</style>

HTML:

CODE

<div class="welcome_gradient">
</div>

Does a mod mind if I take this to the Webmasters' Corner?

EDIT: applying the css to body gives the desired effect I require from a div, I opened a new topic with a related question.

Also: Using tables as an alternative doesn't help any.

I can't be the only person to ever encounter this can I?





I've given up, I can pretty much confirm that IE7 does not support 100% AP elements within myspace.

Mods can go ahead and close this.