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Box model hack not working in Internet Explorer 8

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The Box Model problem shouldn't be an issue in IE8 if you use a strict doctype. I can see you've declared a strict, but a few issues at the top of your html could be cancelling this:

<!--  BEGIN HTML HEADER -->
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="webkit safari safari4 mac">

I think the doctype line should be at the top, rather than a comment. You're missing the xml:lang and lang attributes on the html node, which also shouldn't have a class (put those classes on body).

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

That's mostly just an educated hunch, but try changing it and see if the problem fixes.

adam 2010-01-12 09:11:53

Holy greenbeans, lucifer! It worked! THANK YOU!!!

Alex C 2010-01-12 09:30:32

Could you mark it as the accepted answer? Thanks!

adam 2010-01-12 09:34:44

Done. Sorry, somewhat new to stackoverflow lol.

Alex C 2010-01-12 09:36:52

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