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Posted by Bill on 04/21/06 18:50
Below is my doctype line:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
I thought that using strict stopped a browser from doing the fallback thing?
Bill
"David Dorward" <dorward@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:e2atkj$oui$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> Bill wrote:
>
> Please do not top post: http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?How_to_post
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> > Whupps, I guess I didn't make it clear what my goals are or what I'm
> > seeing now so I'll try it again. The original page was developed in IE
6
> > and had all of it's margins and padding sized and positioned correctly.
> > When viewing in Opera/Nestcape/Mozilla a few of the margins and paddings
> > were off, not much but enough to make me want to 'fix' the problem for
> > those browsers.
>
> Odds are that you are using a Doctype that triggers Quirks mode in IE6
> causing it to intentionally replicate bugs in earlier versions - including
> getting "width" wrong.
>
> Switching to a Doctype that triggers Standards mode and then repairing the
> stylesheet is likely the best solution to the problem.
>
> --
> David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
> Home is where the ~/.bashrc is
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