[thelist] IE layout problems

Mon Aug 1 10:43:12 CDT 2005

On 8/1/2005 5:55 AM Stuart Young wrote:
> hi, sorry for being so dim, I'm sure this is a FAQ but why does this CSS page work fine in Firefox/Safari but break in IE?
> 
> http://www.immigratenz.co.nz/expo-programme.html

One reason (probably) is that you have an incomplete Document Type 
Declaration at the top of your page. That causes IE6 to render in 
"quirks" mode, duplicating the rendering weirdness of earlier versions.

Put this at the top of the page--before anything else--and at least some 
of your troubles will disappear:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

That is, just to be clear, replace your current imcomplete DTD with this 
one containing the URL.

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Steve Clason
Web Design and Development
Boulder, Colorado, USA
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