Hi,
I'm trying to create an expandable content box for forum purpose, however the code I've come up doesn't work in IE, but it is valid HTML 4.01 Strict. Anyway, if I'm handling this problem the wrong way, please tell me how I should do it then.
I have an image with rounded corners that has to be in the top of the wrapper. This image is just a gradient that ends in #000000 (black).
So in order to make it expand I just set the background color of my wrapper to black, to make it fit my layout. However, because of the rounded corners, the black is shown trough them because the background of my image is transparent. So like this:
[transparent]
________________ [transparent]
[gradient] [corner] |

but the corner is round ofcourse :)

To solve this I've just shrinked my wrapper to the size of the contentbox minus the rounded corners. I then give my image a negative left margin which places it to the left, solving my problem. Well in FF ofcourse, because IE just expands my DIV wrapper even though I gave it a fixed width.
This is my HTML:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
	<head>
		<title></title>
		<style type="text/css">
			.wrapper {
				margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;
				height: 300px;
				width: 390px;
				background-color: #000000;
			}
			
			.contentTop {
				margin: 0px 0px 0px -5px;
				height: 98px;
				width: 400px;
				background-color: #bbbbbb;
			}
			
			.content {
				position: relative;
				margin: -80px 0px 0px -5px;
				height: 100px;
				width: 400px;
				color: #ffffff;
			}
		</style>
	</head>
	
	<body>
		<div class="wrapper">
			<div class="contentTop">
			</div>
			
			<div class="content">
			</div>
		</div>
	</body>
</html>

Nevermind, fixed it myself, code coming after some cleanup.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
	<head>
		<title></title>
		<style type="text/css">
			.wrapper {
				margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
				width: 492px;
			}
			
			.errorTable {
				width: 100%;
				height: 100%;
				border: 0px;
				border-collapse: collapse;
				
				font-family: Arial;
				color: #ffffff;
				font-size: 12px;
			}
		</style>
	</head>
	
	<body>
		<div class="wrapper">
				<table class="errorTable" cellpadding="0">
					<tr style="height: 23px;">
						<td style="width: 6px; background-image: url('images/error_01.png');"></td>
						<td style="width: 40px; background-image: url('images/error_02.png');"></td>
						<td style="height: 23px; background-image: url('images/error_03.png');"></td>
						<td style="width: 40px; background-image: url('images/error_04.png');"></td>
						<td style="width: 6px; background-image: url('images/error_05.png');"></td>
					</tr>
					<tr style="height: 76px;">
						<td style="width: 6px; background-image: url('images/error_06.png');"></td>
						<td colspan="3" style="background-image: url('images/error_07.png');"></td>
						<td style="width: 6px; background-image: url('images/error_08.png');"></td>
					</tr>
					<tr>
						<td style="width: 6px; background-image: url('images/error_09.png');"></td>
						<td colspan="3" style="background-color: #000000;">
							<div style="position: relative; margin: -95px 0px 0px 0px">
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							</div>
						</td>
						<td style="width: 6px; background-image: url('images/error_10.png');"></td>
					</tr>	
					<tr style="height: 6px;">
						<td style="width: 6px; background-image: url('images/error_11.png');"></td>
						<td colspan="3" style="background-image: url('images/error_12.png');"></td>
						<td style="width: 6px; background-image: url('images/error_13.png');"></td>
					</tr>
				</table>
		</div>
		
		
	</body>
</html>

Hi there, i've come up with a lite modification in your code!
Hope this will help you out...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="#myStyle" media="all"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> 
<head> 
<title>Try to Avoid using Absolute Width</title>
<style id="myStyle" type="text/css">
/* <![CDATA[ */

/* W3C standard and will validate as CSS Level 2.1 with zero warning's! */

@media screen {
body { 
     width: 100%;
     height: 100%;
     text-align: center; 
}
body .wrapper {
     margin: 0% auto;
     padding: 0%;
     height: 300px;
     width: 390px;
     font: 70% Arial, sans-serif;
}
p {
     line-height: 140%;
     padding-left: 8%;
}
h2 {
     font: 700 160% Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
     width: auto;
     padding-left: 8%;
}
div .content-wrapper {
     width: 100%;
     border: 1px solid #000;
     height: 100%;
     float: left;
     margin: 0%;
     padding: 0%;
     background-color: #000;
     color: #fff;
}         
div .contentTop {
     margin: 0px;
     float: left;
     height: 30%;
     width: 100%;
     background-color: #bbb;
     color: #000;
     border-bottom: 2px dashed #eee;
}
         
div .content {
     float: left;
     clear: left;
     margin: 0%;
     width: 100%;
     background-color: #f2f2f2;
     color: #000;
} }
/* ]]> */
</style>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="content-wrapper">
<div class="contentTop">
<h2>Content Top</h2>
</div> <!-- Content Top -->
<div class="content">
<h2>Content</h2>
<p>Nesting all div containers using float to prevent the page from breaking out!<br />Hope this will help you with your current issue. Although we are posting on the wrong side of the forum.<br />
Good day to you....</p>
</div> <!-- Content -->
</div> <!-- Content Wrapper -->
</div> <!-- Wrapper -->
</body>
</html>
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