With IE 6 forcing standards mode helps box model problems but there are still a lot of IE 5/5.5 out there and I don't think that you can coerce them into standards mode with or without the prolog.
If I'm wrong, someone will surely correct my thinking. Download finally completed so best get back to work and offline. Cheryl D. Wise Microsoft MVP WiserWays, LLC 713 353-0139 www.wiserways.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Caudill If you code xhtml strict (maybe loose too), with no xml declaration (IE chokes on it and goes into 'quirks' mode), all modern browsers use the w3c box model... even IE (this is its 'standards' mode). -Stephen http://www.mechavox.com On Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:05 PM, Cheryl D. Wise commented: : If you use borders you can't reliably use 100% in width because of the : different box models. ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
