On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:16:29 -0700 Came this utterance formulated by Divya Manian to my mailbox:
> On 4/2/09 6:30 AM, "Jon Wickström" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The look I'm after is a "double border" with the inner border the > > same color as the parent bg, and the outer the element bg. This I > > get in all sane browsers by specifying the parent bg as the border > > color and the border style"double". This gives me a separated border > > with the element bg color. In the example I use red, not the parent > > backgroundborder color, to see the border clearly. > > > > The green border is just for your viewing pleasure. It is a div used > > for markup to center the menu. If anybody has a cleaner > > centering-solution, I'd bee happy to look at it. > > > > For a test-case see: > > http://www.ekebodagis.fi/ekebo/test.html > > > IE is rendering your page in quirks mode because of the xml namespace > declaration on top. Remove that and serve the page as content type > text/html or use HTML 4 Strict if necessary. > Divya - I disagree. IE7 handles the XML declaration fine in standards mode[1]. Although i see it on line 8 when it should always be on line 1. IMHO IE less than IE7 should always be in quirks mode and the XML declaration will achieve this. Jon - I am on linux here at home so no IE running. Will look at it at work later today but you may already have an answer by then. [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/15/467901.aspx -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
