[WEB4LIB] IE problem- Wales on the Web

Tue Sep 14 12:54:03 EDT 2004

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Subject: [WEB4LIB] IE problem- Wales on the Web

We have a problem with div alignment on the internal pages of 
walesontheweb at the following URL:
http://www.walesontheweb.org/cayw/index/en

The main div seems offset by the size of the left navigation div but it 
renders in all other browsers correctly. This problem was introduced 
when we removed the XML doctype tag from the header of the page as this 
itself was causing font size problems (again in IE only). It has 
something to do with quirks mode which I don't fully understand but I do

know that it is doing my head in!

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Your doctype is incorrect.  Try this instead: 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

This will put IE into standards mode and give your styles a better shot
at being rendered as desired.

Best wishes,
-kb

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Communication & Collaboration Technologies
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