Re: [WSG] IE problem with

[sam sherlock]

You can leave out the xml prolog, its IE messing things up again (yet again - over and over) if you choose to put it in IE (aka inferior explorer) will use quirksmode and ignore all mannor of things such as absolute positioning, and a whole raft of other things, other compliant browsers will be fine and respond according to the rule book. sam Duncan Stigwood wrote: HELP! Tidy puts in <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> which I think I understand is the Document Character Set, i.e. V. important. However having it in my document makes IE screw up all absolute positioning!! What am I doing wrong? Thanks guys ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************