main content wrapper div get's pushed down the page in IE

I have a 2 column layout, with the left side for navigation and the right side for the main content.

The right开发者_开发百科 side content has a wrapper div that looks like:

<div id="content">

Now this looks fine in FF and GC, and it IE but if I change the padding to anything over 4px that section gets pushed down below the left navigation.

#content
{
    padding:3px;   // 4 makes it get pushed down
}

Does this mean IE has a different way of calculating the width of all my elements? Is this a common problem that has a solution for it?

How wide is your two-column-container, and how wide are the left column and right columns?

I suspect you are making the right column too wide to float next to the left column inside the container.