Ok so I have been programming for like 2 years, and im not rich enough to buy my own domain so i use freewebs... anyway i have a problem with css in ie. Is this a natural problem with ie? Is there anyway to make css class definitions compatible? etc... The site i am having trouble with is http://www.freewebs.com/mattrandompoems/ Thanks!
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there are specific "hacks" and general hack methods, but needing to hack is often a sign of a deeper underlying issue.
do you use a doctype? (some) problems with CSS can be solved by using an up-to-date document type specification... if something looks ok in Firefox, Opera and the like, but not in IE, sometimes it's a doctype issue, sometimes its an IE issue, sometimes it's a developer choice issue.
can't really help you more than that.
oh, that and some links:
http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack
http://alistapart.com/stories/doctype/
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
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Ok so apparently the problem was just me being a idiot programmer,
in my code i had comments shown as
<!--Comment--!>When it should have been
<!-- comment-->
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