CSS and PHP include weirdness

[LanceM]

I have an external style sheet that holds all of my styles, sitewide. The menu that appears on every page is inserted via php include, and makes heavy use of the style sheet.

When I originally had the menu inside of the HTML doc (before I decided to use the include), I had the expected issues with Firefox and IE measuring widths/padding/etc differently, and had to make use of the "/width" fix.

Now that I am using an external menu, however, I had to drop the "/width" fix. I just found this to be the oddest thing, and was wondering if I should be expecting some major mess as I'm completing the site.

Cliffs:
- Had standard CSS width discrepancies between IE and Firefox.
- Used /width fix
- Calling up the menu via php include removes the need for the fix.
- ???

 

[imported_LoKe]

Then remove the fix. I don't see the problem?

I mean, it doesn't make sense to me, but I don't know of this /width fix that you speak of, because my CSS styled website is coded to appear properly in both IE and FF. Perhaps you could elaborate on this "hack" and tell us what exactly it's doing.

 

[LanceM]

Haha, nevermind. I found the problem.

In case you were wondering, here is the issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_box_model_bug

The very last sentence (XML dec before the DOCTYPE) got me, which was a totally random mistake that I don't even remember making. Thanks, though!

 

[Trevelyan]

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