Posted by Andy Dingley on 04/19/07 16:27

On 19 Apr, 16:05, "goldn...@gmail.com" <goldn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> does enyone possibly know why when i configer a doctype in my page,
> the explorer browser don't let me to use the
> overflow property in the body

Search around "quirks mode".

When you switch from Quirks to Standards mode IE changes its error
recovery behaviour for CSS syntax errors (such as missing length
dimension units). In Quirks mode it auto-corrects, in Standards it
rejects the malformed CSS fragment. Chances are that you have a CSS
error in there somewhere.

You should validate your pages (HTML & CSS) if you want this stuff to
work.

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