I would like to know the answer too. Anyone here know what is the answer. I'll do some investigation and get back to you if I bump into an useful answer. You should email the people at iContact as they probably could answer your iContact question..
IE is in quirks mode and as such isn't applying your CSS properly. You need to use a full DOCTYPE to fix this...
That did it, thanks.
Why do you have to have that url in the doctype?..
Supposedly the browser is supposed to check, I guess....
All I know is that it is required...
Okie doeky, that's good enough for me, thanks Horus..
Actually no, that loose.dtd will cause problems. strict is always better. having loose.dtd will put IE right in quirks mode agian, which you don't want...
Argh, Vy = Confused..
I thought that fred's was for html strict, but I'm not coding strict (I dont' think)...
Urk... but then in strict you can't use deprecated stuff - I only told Vy to keep using the transitional doctype she had already been using.....
Still no; the opposite. Loose.dtd puts IE in *standards* mode - omitting it puts it in quirks mode. As we know, IE's quirks mode that it renders the page exactly as IE 5.5 would - with even worse standards support. Vy uses margin:auto which doesn't work in IE5, and without a URL in the doctype (loose or strict, doesn't matter), margin:auto isn't supported, and the box isn't center. With loose.dtd (or strict.dtd, if you prefer), the page is rendered in standards mode and the box is centered..
Http://members.surfeu.fi/jerkku/htmlforums/loose.html.
Http://members.surfeu.fi/jerkku/html...e-omitted.html..
Yes, Fred's was for strict. and yes you can't use deprecated tags in strict mode. but for IE to be worth while you should be in strict. this will be perfect for wha tyou need:.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">.
The loose.dtd line will cause problems in IE..
You're ok Vy, don't panic...
That's what she had to start with, and was causing the problems....
She changed the doctype to match what I recommended and said it was working....
I'm afraid that I think we caught you wrong for the 4th time in history now.....
Jere, loose.dtd causes a lot of stuff to happen that you don't want. loose.dtd cause weird stuff to happen to tables and the box model. you maybe correct about the margins but it also causes a lot of stuff to happen besides that as an after effect...
Yes and no. sure it fixed the problem she had, BUT it will create more that you don't want. that is why I say never use the loose.dtd line. there are ways around it...