Hello AR123,
There are quite a few errors there that might be giving you problems.
I think one of the biggest ones is having trying to style <ul class="section_navigation"> with .section_navigation ul
That works a little differerntly when you make that CSS look like ul.section_navigation
Look what a little cleanup can do for you -
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color:#fc6;
font-family: "Century Gothic";
}
#container {
width: 800px;
margin: 30px auto;
background: #999;
overflow: auto;
}
#left {
width: 20%;
margin: 5px 0 0;
float: left;
}
#right {
width: 78%;
height: 400px; /*demo only*/
margin: 5px 0 0;
padding: 0 0 0 3px;
float: right;
border-left: 1px solid #ccc;
background: #fff;
}
ul.section_navigation {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
position: relative;
}
.section_navigation li {
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
list-style-type: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.section_navigation li a {
display: block;
padding: 8px 5px 8px 8px;
background: #fff;
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
width: 100%;
border-left: 10px solid #FFFFFF;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 8pt;
}
html>body .section_navigation li a { /*Non IE6 width*/ width: auto; }
.section_navigation li a:hover {
background-color: #e4e4e4;
color: #212121;
border-left-color: #69be28;
text-decoration: none;
}
.section_navigation a.current {
background-color: #e4e4e4;
color: #212121;
border-left: 10px solid #009b48;
padding: 8px 5px 8px 8px;
}
.section_navigation a.current:hover { background-color: #f00; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="left">
<ul class="section_navigation">
<li><a href="/the/content1.nsf/viewAllDocsByID/VJDDN?OpenDocument" class="current">HOSPITALITY</a></li>
<li><a href="/the/content1.nsf/viewAllDocsByID/7VJDE2?OpenDocument">RESTAURANT TARIFF</a></li>
<li><a href="/the/content1.nsf/viewAllDocsByID/7VJDED?OpenDocument">CATERING info</a></li>
<li><a href="/the/content1.nsf/viewAllDocsByID/7VJDFP?OpenDocument">DRY CLEANING SERVICE</a></li>
<li><a href="/the/content1.nsf/viewAllDocsByID/7VJDFY?OpenDocument">NEWS BITES</a></li>
<li><a href="/the/content1.nsf/viewAllDocsByID/8NPFH2?OpenDocument">CATERING SERVICES FROM 03/01/2012</a></li>
<li><a href="/the/content1.nsf/viewAllDocsByID/7VJDGD?OpenDocument">YOUR COMMENTS</a></li>
<li><a href="/the/content1.nsf/viewAllDocsByID/7VJDGQ?OpenDocument">PROMOTIONS & OFFERS</a></li>
<li><a href="/the/content1.nsf/viewAllDocsByID/47WEQ6?OpenDocument">Back to Homepage</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a> <img src="http://the/imagelib.nsf/viewImagesByIDLookup/SLUK-8QMCTE/$FILE/comms_ad.jpg" alt="Ingredients promotion poster" /></a></p>
<p><a> <img src="http://the/imagelib.nsf/viewImagesByIDLookup/SLUK-8QCEVP/$FILE/jan12_button.gif" alt="Ingredients promotion poster" /></a></p>
<p><a><img src="http://the/imagelib.nsf/viewImagesByIDLookup/SLUK-8QCEWM/$FILE/jan12_button2.gif" alt="Ingredients promotion poster" /></a></p>
<!--end left--></div>
<div id="right">
<!--end right--></div>
<!--end container--></div>
</body>
</html>
I have no idea if your images work with that since the urls don't link to any images and your code didn't give any clue as what size they might be. I'm not sure why you've wrapped them in paragraph tags either.