Why does IE6 Double My Margins?
March 12, 2012
If you compare your site in multiple browsers and find that the margins are twice as big in IE6, you’ve run into a big called the double margin IE6 issue. A known issue, it happens when you style a margin onto a floated element. Luckily it’s an easy fix: add the style attribute “display:inline” to the column with margin.
Then your IE6 version should obey your stylistic vision. Unless of course you have more style problems, but at least this won’t be one of them…