Table Border padding - Firefox vs. IE7

[Deety]

IE7 does not seem to be processing the Extra CSS attributes in the Table Border editor, namely:

border: 0px ; padding: 7px 10px 7px 27px ;


http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/857/tborderdq6.th.gif (http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tborderdq6.gif)

The padding works in Firefox:

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/6669/firefoxxt3.gif

But has no effect in IE:

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/8793/ie7nj8.gif

The border image is there, but it is behind the "Search Forums" box rather than to the left of it. Changing the padding values affects Firefox but not IE.

When the same attributes are added to the Category Strips editor, both browsers apply them, so this issue seems to be specific to .tborder.

If anyone has an idea why this is happening, or better yet a solution ;), I'd be most appreciative.

Thanks!

[Deety]

After further research, there seem to be some known issues with padding in IE. I haven't found this exact issue, but close enough to suggest that changing the order of <div> elements would probably fix it. I can probably get it to work with a little experimentation... if I can figure out where to look in the templates... but so far, no luck. (I know... what a n00b...)

Any ideas where to look? Many thanks! :)